Indonesian Cooking Online with Shandra

Learn to make gulai udang ala padang (an aromatic coconut curry with shrimp and potatoes) paired with nasi kuning (a festive yellow rice dish)!

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 Shandra will guide you through making two of her family recipes. First, Shandra will show you how to start and build her fragrant gulai udang ala padang (a rich shrimp and potato curry made with coconut milk, lemongrass, ginger, shallots, garlic, fresh turmeric, chilis, lime leaves, and galangal). You'll also learn how to make her recipe for nasi kuning with all the fixings (an aromatic jasmine rice dish cooked in coconut milk, seasoned with lemongrass, pandan leaves, bay leaves, lime leaves, and turmeric, topped with fried shallots and slivered egg omelette)..

Shopping List for This Class

• One 1 ½-inch long by ½-inch wide piece of ginger (about .7 ounces)
• One 3-inch long by ½-inch wide piece of fresh turmeric (about .8 ounces)
• 6 small cloves garlic
• Two 6-inch pieces of fresh lemongrass stems
• 5 medium shallots (4 large or 6 small)
• 3 medium Yukon gold potatoes (about 1 pound)
• ½ to 1 long red chile pepper (to your desired heat level)
• 4 Persian cucumbers
• 1 lime
• 5 fresh lime leaves or rind of a lime
• 2 cups jasmine rice
• Two 14-ounce cans coconut milk (preferably a Thai brand, not Goya), not shaken
• 6 candlenuts or blanched hazelnuts or blanched almonds
• 4 to 5 large Indian bay leaves
• 1 teaspoon coriander powder
• 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
• 1 ½ pounds large shrimp: shelled with tail left on, deveined
• 2 large eggs
• Vegetable or coconut oil
• Fine salt
• Sugar

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!

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.