Lebanese Cooking Online with Jeanette (Summer)

In this 2.5 hour interactive online experience Jeanette will guide you through making making four of her family recipes. During your class, you'll prepare Jeanette's baba ghanoush (a smoky roasted eggplant spread), salata sayfieh (Lebanese salad with pomegranate molasses), machewi (juicy and tender lamb and vegetable shish kebabs), and biwaz (a fresh onion and parsley salad).

Since Jeanette can’t physically welcome you into her home, she wants to do so virtually!

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!

Shopping List for This Class

• 2 eggplants (about 1 pound each)
• 3 cloves garlic
• 4 Persian cucumbers
• 1 large beefsteak tomato
• ½ green bell pepper
• 1 small white onion
• 2 small yellow onions
• 1 large sweet pepper, any color
• 1 small eggplant, optional
• 8 white button mushrooms, optional
• 3/4 pound (340 g) large cherry tomatoes-on-the-vine (usually 1 box)
• 1/8 pound (2 ounces/60 g) fresh flat leaf parsley (about 1/2 bunch)
• 3 lemons
• ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1 tablespoon dried thyme
• ½ teaspoon sweet paprika
• ½ teaspoon ground allspice
• 5 grinds freshly ground black pepper
• 2 teaspoons ground sumac
• 3 teaspoons pomegranate molasses
• ⅓ cup tahini
• 2 pounds (900 g) lean leg of lamb
• 1 tablespoon neutral oil
• Sweet red pepper paste, optional
• Pita bread
• salt