Uzbek Cooking Online 2 with Damira

Learn to make delicious barak (handmade beef dumplings) paired with achik chuchuk (a bright tomato and onion salad)!

Since Damira 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!

In this 2.5 hour interactive online experience Damira will guide you through making two of her family recipes. You will learn how to make Damira's:

• barak
• delicate handmade dumplings filled with ground beef and onions, and served both fried and boiled.
• achik chuchuk
• a classic Uzbek salad of thinly sliced tomatoes and red onion with a dash of cayenne.

• 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.

• 1 large egg
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 medium white onion
• 1 medium red onion
• 1 large beefsteak tomato
• 1 small bunch fresh dill (1 tablespoon chopped)
• 1 small bunch fresh cilantro (1 tablespoon chopped)
• 1/2 pound ground beef
• 2 1/4 cups sunflower or other neutral oil
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, softened
• Sour cream (optional- for serving)
• 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• table salt