Uzbek Cooking Online with Damira

Learn to make baked butternut squash sambusas from scratch and a fresh, tangy radish 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. First you will learn how to make a delicious, flaky pastry dough with Damira, and then you'll make a tray of butternut squash stuffed sambusas (savory triangular pastries made from scratch and filled with cumin-scented butternut squash and onion). While your sambusas are baking, you will prepare a refreshing salad of radishes and fresh herbs tossed in a tangy yogurt dressing..

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 large eggs
• Table salt
• Oil
• All purpose flour (at least 2 cups)
• 1 butternut squash (raw, whole & unpeeled)
• 1 medium yellow onion
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
• A bunch of radishes (around 10)
• Labne, or Greek yogurt (about 1-1.5 cups)
• Bunch of fresh dill
• Bunch of fresh cilantro

Note: 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!