“Food is about celebrating life and connecting with people. I’ll show you how to cook beautiful, healthy Middle Eastern food to delight the eyes, hearts and stomachs of your guests, and tell you the stories and traditions behind each recipe.”    -Melek Erdal, chef and cookery teacher

The class will include:

• Learning to cook ‘by eye’ without measurements, putting trust in your palette
• Developing an understanding of how to construct layers of flavour and texture
• Exploring healthy, tasty and satisfying speciality Middle Eastern summery dishes and salads, using grains and herbs
• How to bake unleavened bread
• Cooking for large groups and dinner parties with limited time
• A delicious organic lunch and recipes to keep

Fee*: £84 (£66 Concession**) inclusive of VAT, includes a delicious organic plant based lunch. 

* This fee is used to fund our programme of free courses to vulnerable and low-income community groups. By attending a Made In Hackney masterclass you get a great day of learning AND you’re providing our charity with essential funds for us to continue our work with vulnerable community groups.

** Concessionary rate available for students, pensioners, unemployed and low waged

Refunds: we require a minimum of 7 days' notice for any cancellations or transfers once you have booked onto a class.

Vouchers: To redeem a voucher purchased on our site, please contact us to book a place. If contacting us by email please attach your voucher. If telephoning, have your voucher to hand so you can quote the voucher number.

For information: info@madeinhackney.org / 020 8442 4266

Location: Made In Hackney, Food For All Basement, 3 Cazenove Rd, Stoke Newington, London, N16 6PA. Regretfully, the kitchen is not wheelchair accessible.

ALLERGEN ALERT 

Made In Hackney uses cereals containing gluten namely: wheat (spelt and khorasan wheat), rye, barley, oats; peanuts; all other nuts; sesame; all other seeds; soybeans; celery and celeriac; mustard; sulphur dioxide/sulphites; lupin; tomatoes and other allergens in it's classes. Our food is freshly prepared in our busy cookery school kitchen that handles allergens, so we cannot guarantee that our food and drinks are allergen-free. Even in classes where these ingredients are not being used, they will be on site in our store rooms and our equipment will have previously come into contact with them. Participants attend at their own risk.