Lebanese Cooking Online with Jeanette (Spring)

Learn to make satisfying chicken ouzi (a festive rice dish topped with tender chicken and seasoned with onions, ground beef, warm spices, and nuts), a piquant garlic-yogurt sauce, and a refreshing Lebanese salad!

Our online classes are designed to be special, meaningful opportunities to share cooking, culture, and connection--just like our real life experiences. We want you to cook along, and we promise there will be plenty of time for questions, conversation, and stories. It will all end with a virtual dinner party where you'll get to share in the fruits of your labor, apart, but together!

In this 2.5 hour interactive online experience Jeanette will guide you through making three of her family recipes for a spectacular and satisfying meal. You'll begin by boiling a whole chicken with aromatics (bonus broth!). You'll then cook basmati rice with ground beef, onions, and warming spices, which you will top with pieces of cooked chicken, nuts sauteed in butter, and a sprinkling of Lebanese "7 spice" and fresh nutmeg. You'll then prepare a simple garlic-yogurt sauce flecked with dried mint for dipping the chicken. Finally, Jeanette will teach you how to make a signature Lebanese salad of cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, onions, and thyme, with a pomegranate molasses dressing that is the perfect fresh complement to the other dishes.

Shopping List for This Class

• One 3-to-4-pound whole chicken
• ½ pound lean ground beef
• 3 medium white onions
• 1 large carrot
• 4 Persian cucumbers
• 1 large beefsteak tomato
• ½ green bell pepper
• 2 large or 3 small cloves garlic
• 4 lemons
• 1 ½ cups basmati rice
• 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons salted butter (if using unsalted butter, add ¼ teaspoon of salt)
• ½ cup pine nuts
• 1 cup cashew pieces
• 1 cup whole almonds with skin
• 1 teaspoon pomegranate molasses
• 1 cup whole milk yogurt
• 3 tablespoons neutral oil, such as vegetable or sunflower
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 pieces flat cinnamon (desi) or 1 conventional cinnamon stick
• 3 whole black peppercorns
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1 teaspoon Lebanese 7 spice blend (optional)
• ½ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
• 1 tablespoon dried thyme
• 1/4 teaspoon ground sumac
• ½ teaspoon dried mint, plus more for garnish
• salt

All Online cooking classes include interactive cooking instruction, a virtual dinner party, a packet with the instructor's family recipes, and a video recording of the class. Since the price is per device, feel free to invite your partner, kids, or roommates to join!