Event Title: Cooking Workshop - Learn to Make Afghan Ghormeh Sabzi (Braised Beef and Herbs)
Event Description: Join Jamila and learn how to make Ghormeh Sabzi, a stew-like dish loaded with flavours of dried lime, herbs, and Afghan greens (or spinach), simmered with chunks of tender beef and kidney beans. A tasty new dish that will become a family favourite.
Please note: this recipe contains beef and is gluten-free.
How to pay: purchase your $35 tickets here or click the image below.
Class size: Each workshop has a maximum of 12 participants.
Date and Time: 5.30 - 7.30pm Wednesday 4 November
Venue: Climate Action Campus, 24 Cowlishaw Street, Avonside (best entrance for carparking).
Kitchen building is a short walk from the Cowlishaw Street entrance, turn left and it is the building with a large mural of a whale painted on it with a small porch outside. Look out for the signboard reading “Cooks Collective Cooking Class“.
What to expect:
During this 2-hour workshop your tutor will:
Describe the ingredients in the dish and give you tips about where to purchase them locally.
Share their stories about their experiences cooking and their recipe with tips and demonstration on how to cook the dish. Participants will have a go at cooking parts of the recipe.
Provide you with a printed recipe card so you can make the dish at home.
Finish the workshop with a meal to share (if time allows) or to take home. Please bring a takeaway container if you wish to take your serving home!Come along, bring your workmates, whānau (family), and your appetite! We look forward to meeting you.
Join Jamila from our Cooks Collective for this cooking workshop and learn how to cook an Afghan dish of braised beef with herbs called Ghormeh Sabzi.
Ghormeh Sabzi is a stew-like dish loaded with flavours of dried lime, herbs, and Afghan greens (or spinach), simmered with chunks of tender beef and kidney beans. A tasty new dish that will become a family favourite.
Please note: this recipe contains beef and is gluten-free.
What to expect:
During this 2-hour workshop, your tutor will:
Describe the ingredients in the dish and give you tips about where to purchase them locally.
Share their stories about their experiences cooking and their recipe with tips and demonstration on how to cook the dish. Participants will have a go at cooking parts of the recipe.
Provide you with a printed recipe card so you can make the dish at home.
Finish the workshop with a meal to share (if time allows) or to take home. Please bring a takeaway container if you wish to take your serving home!
Class size:
Each workshop has a maximum of 12 participants.
Date and Time:
5.30 - 7.30pm Wednesday 4 November
Please reach at 5.25pm, ready for a 5.30pm sharp start. The workshop will finish at 7.30pm
Venue:
Climate Action Campus, 24 Cowlishaw Street, Avonside (best entrance for carparking).
Kitchen building is a short walk from the Cowlishaw Street entrance, turn left and it is the building with a large mural of a whale painted on it with a small porch outside. Look out for the signboard reading “Cooks Collective Cooking Class“.
Workshops:
This workshop is part of a series of 4 cooking classes showcasing Nepali, Afghan, Eritrean and Palestinian cuisines. Tutors are multicultural women from the Cooks Collective, sharing their traditional recipes and cooking tips. Check out our other workshops! If you miss out, please stay tuned as we hope to offer workshops every school term from February 2027.