Bangladeshi Cooking Online with Afsari

Learn to make mugir mangsho (a fragrant chicken and potato curry) with bhath (spiced Basmati rice)!

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 Afsari will guide you through making: 

• Murgir Mangsho (chicken and potato slow-cooked in a rich and fragrant tomato-based sauce, seasoned with ginger, garlic, coriander, cumin, clove, cardamom, chilli, cinnamon, black peppercorn, and turmeric)
• Bhath (Basmati rice gently flavored with green cardamom, bay leaf, and cloves) .

Shopping List for This Class

• neutral oil
• 6 cloves garlic
• 3 inch piece of ginger
• 2 white onions
• fine salt
• 1 plum tomato
• one 2 pound chicken, cut into 8 parts with skin removed, OR 1.5-2 pounds of chicken thighs or breasts, skin removed
• 2 small Russet potatoes
• 1 pound white basmati rice (not parboiled, not brown)
• ghee or butter
• 5 black peppercorns
• 10 green cardamom pods
• 12 whole cloves
• 4 bay leaves (ideally Indian bay leaves)
• 1 cinnamon stick
• ground coriander
• 1/2 cup cumin seeds (to make roasted ground cumin--some will be leftover)
• red chili powder
• turmeric
• 1 lemon

Here’s how it works:

After registration you’ll receive an email with the Zoom link, shopping list, equipment list, and recipe packet.

At the scheduled time of your class, you’ll click on the Zoom link and join your class live! Afterwards, you will receive a link to a video recording of your class that you can revisit at your leisure.

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!