Nothing beats a home-cooked meal shared with family! And this is what inspires our Family Style Cookery Classes, a fun, laid-back homestyle cooking experience. Here, you will learn to prepare different dishes and then enjoy them with people who, like you, fuel our mission of supporting refugee and migrant chefs on their journey to integration. It’s a cookery class with a conscience, like they say!
Your class will be led by our wonderful Chef Chinju from India at Holdspace in Angel, London.
At our Family Style Cookery Classes, you will be grouped with other participants and prepare dishes together as a team. Think of Chef Chinju as the head of the family! She will take care of dividing the class into groups, and each group will be responsible for creating one of the dishes. Of course, you are welcome and encouraged to move around during the class to learn about the other dishes being prepared. Throughout the evening, Chef Chinju will share stories about their food and culture, and explain how to prepare each of the dishes so you come away with some new cooking tricks and inspiration from India. You will also be emailed the recipes after the class.
Menu, subject to change:
- Vegetable Biryani (Rice with vegetables, spices, nuts and crispy onions)| Vegetarian; Milk, Tree Nuts (Cashews)
- Pazham Pori (Plantain Fritters)| Vegan; Gluten(wheat), Seasame
- Kappa Puzhukku (Mashed Tapioca with spices, coconut and chilli)| Vegan
- Kozhukkatta (Steamed Bun stuffed with jaggery, coconut and cardamom)|Vegan
- Chicken Chukka (Dry Chicken Curry)|Meat (Chicken); Milk
- Chilli Gobi (Fried Cauliflower Curry)|Vegan; Gluten(wheat), Soybeans
This menu contains meat (chicken) but is vegetarian friendly (5/6 dishes are meat-free). Allergens include: milk, treenuts (cashews), seasame, soybeans , and gluten.
Please let us know if you have any specific dietary requirements so our team is aware ahead of the class but kindly note that we will not be substituting any ingredients to accommodate dietary needs so please only book into classes that suit your dietary preferences and needs. Please see our Food and Allergen Policy when booking into the class for more information.
A message from our Chef Chinju:
“My name is Chinju and I am from Kerala in the South of India. I am from a small family – parents and one sister – and I was brought up in a village where my parents are farmers.
I learned cooking from both my mother and my father, but in different ways. I would watch my mother as she made everyday dishes – such as breakfast of Puttu (boiled ground rice and coconut) with chickpea curry. My father taught me to cook different spicy foods like chicken curry.
After school I studied Indian dancing at university, with degree and post-grad qualifications. When I joined the dance programme and shared accommodation with fellow students the cookery training from my parents was a blessing (or a curse!) as my friends had me grate coconut every day – I was the only one who knew how to do this! We made coconut chutney and mango pickle to spice up our cheap and simple meals!
My husband is my rock. I am here because of him. He and my family mean the world to me. I came to the UK to work as a home carer about a year ago, with the ambition to build a career here and for my husband to be able to join me. My first job did not work out well and with support from the Salvation Army I was introduced to Migrateful. I hope my journey with Migrateful and cooking my food from Kerala will enable me to build a new life in the UK.”
We’re excited to have you in the class! Please take note of a few final reminders:
- We will send you a reminder email 3 days before the class takes place that will include our In-Person Class COVID-19 Policy. You can also find more information on our website and social media pages.
- This small-scale class for 14 participants is not socially distanced. For those seeking a Covid-secure cookery class, please see our online events.
- We require a minimum of 6 participants to run this class and reserve the right to cancel it due to insufficient enrolment. If this occurs, we will, at your convenience, transfer you to another class of your choice of the same value. If this option does not suit you, you will have the choice to receive either a gift voucher for the class or a full refund. In the case of insufficient enrolment, we will inform you at least 6 days before the class.
- Payments made through Paypal can take up to 48 hours to have the order confirmed. To guarantee your spot in a cookery class we recommend using a debit or credit card.
- We only process refunds and ticket transfers if we are notified 7 days before the class takes place. No changes are allowed if the class is missed. When you register for this event, you are agreeing to our Terms and Conditions. If you are not able to attend the class, you can pass on your tickets so someone else can attend on your behalf.
- Ingredients used in our classes contain, may contain, or may have been manufactured/prepared on shared equipment with the 14 allergens listed above. We cannot guarantee that any food or drink prepared or consumed in any of the Migrateful Cookery Classes are free from any of the 14 allergens, or any other ingredient. Migrateful’s Cookery Classes are hosted in our busy cookery school or in external venues that handle allergens. Even in classes where allergens are not used, the ingredients for the class may have been stored in close proximity to allergens and other ingredients, and/or equipment and surfaces may have previously come into contact with allergens and other ingredients. Participants attend classes at their own risk.