The Plant-Based Community Cookery School
Wednesday 22nd December 2021
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Fee*: £15 Standard / £7.50 Concessions**/ £3 Unwaged All proceeds help fund our community meal service which continues to provide free nutritious, tasty meals to households struggling to access food
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Love Caribbean food but not sure where to start? Take a culinary journey to Jamaica with a plant based version of the much-loved classic dish rundown. This is a healthy, hearty, flavoursome stew that is served up with all the typical ground provisions aka hard food (think yam, green banana, dumplings!)...
This recording of a live class will include:
About Melisaa
Melissa is a clinical scientist, registered nutritionist (AfN), and founder of the Diverse Nutrition Association where she educates people on aspects such as cultural diversity sensitivities, as well as how cultural foods can be a healthy part of anybody’s diet.
For ingredients and equipment needed see below
INGREDIENTS LIST
Basmati rice OR other grain to serve (amount required for how many persons you intend to cook for) PLEASE NOTE: I will be adding some quinoa to my rice so please feel free to do the same if you wish
1 x 400 can of coconut milk
1 cup water to start with
1 large yellow onion, finely diced
3 to 4 cloves garlic, minced
2 large tomatoes
1 bay leaf (optional)
Up to 1 scotch bonnet or red chilli (optional)
1 x 400g can of chickpeas
1 tbsp all-purpose seasoning or vegetable stock cube
1 – 2 green bananas (optional, if you want it and can get it)*
1 small slice of yam (maybe 1 – 2 inches thick) (optional, if you want it and can get it)*
1 cup of flour and approx. ¾ cups water for dumplings
2 tbsp dried thyme or handful of small bunch of fresh thyme
Salt to taste and black pepper
*If you wish to use other ingredients from your veg box we can be creative and make with different vegetables, so don’t worry too much…we can use things like breadfruit, pumpkin, butternut squash etc if you want to and have it. The main thing is the coconut cooking down and base ingredients listed towards the top of the ingredients list
GARNISH (Optional):
EQUIPMENT LIST
Fee*: £15 Standard / £7.5 Concessions**/ £3 Unwaged
*All proceeds help fund our community meal service which has become a critical food support service delivering 70,000 free nutritious, tasty meals per year to households struggling to access food, and is needed now more than ever by our community.
**Concessionary rate available for students, pensioners and low waged
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