Burkinabé Cooking Online with Yipin (Spring)

Learn to make sauce gombo (a nutty and rich chicken gumbo flavored with okra, onion, bell pepper, tomato, garlic, and chiles), steamed parboiled rice (tender and pillowy rice to serve with your gumbo), and gingembre (a refreshing ginger drink that is both spicy and sweet)! 

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 Yipin will guide you through making three of her family recipes. During your class, you'll prepare Yipin's sauce gombo (a nutty and rich chicken gumbo flavored with okra, onion, bell pepper, tomato, garlic, and chiles), steamed parboiled rice (tender and pillowy rice to serve with your gumbo), and gingembre (a refreshing ginger drink that is both spicy and sweet).

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.

Shopping List for This Class

• 2 ½ to 3 pounds (1.2 kg - 1.4 kg) bone-in chicken parts
• 1 tablespoon garlic powder
• 5 small bay leaves
• 3/4 ounce (20 g) garlic (about 6 medium cloves)
• ⅓ pound (150 g) bell pepper, any color (about 1/2 large)
• 1/2 pound (225 g) red onion (about 1 large)
• 1 pound (450 g) plum tomatoes (about 4 medium)
• ⅓ pound (150 g) scallions (about 1 large bunch)
• ¼ pound (115 g) fresh okra (about 10-12, frozen is okay too)
• 3/4 pound (340 g) eggplant (1 small Italian eggplant, or 5-6 tiny eggplants)
• 13 oz (370g) green cabbage (½ small cabbage)
• 10-15 oz ginger (1 large piece)
• 46 oz pineapple juice (1 large can)
• 1 lemon
• 3 tablespoons honey
• 6 oz can tomato paste
• 1 cup (240 ml) organic creamy peanut butter (with no added sugar or fat)
• 2 cups uncooked white jasmine rice
• neutral oil
• 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!