Persian Virtual Cooking Workshop

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Learn how to make two authentic Persian family recipes at home in this virtual cooking class!


Mab

Mab


 
The League of Kitchens

The League of Kitchens

2.5 hours

Class size 1 to 6 (public dates), 10 to 17
$60

Virtual team building activities
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Online Classes
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Food and Drink
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Cooking
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Kid Friendly
Dive into the delicious world of Persian cuisine with this interactive online cooking class! Guided by Mab, a passionate chef and storyteller, you’ll learn to prepare two cherished family recipes that will transport your taste buds to the heart of Iran. From the comfort of your kitchen, experience the joy of cooking, culture, and connection in a class designed to be as warm and inviting as a Persian dinner table!
In this 2.5 hour interactive online experience Mab will guide you through making two of her family recipes. First Mab will show you how to prepare aloo morgh-e beround-e Parvin joonam (a rich and fragrant chicken dish made with onions, prunes, saffron, rosewater, cumin, turmeric, and cinnamon). You will also learn how to make kateh polo zafran ba tahdig sibzamini (perfectly steamed saffron rice with a crispy potato tahdig). The class is interactive, with plenty of opportunities for questions, stories, and cultural insights, making it a truly immersive experience.
Your class includes live cooking instruction, a virtual dinner party to savor your creations together, and a recipe packet. With a video recording provided and pricing per device, this is the perfect way to explore Persian cuisine, whether you’re cooking solo, with a partner, or as a family.
Knowledge required
Beginner-friendly!
 
What to bring
Shopping List for This Class
  • 1/4 teaspoon/.50g saffron threads
  • 4 ice cube
  • 1 cup dried prunes
  • 9-11 tablespoons neutral oil
  • 2 large or 3 medium onions
  • 1 teaspoon turmeric
  • 4 bone-in skin-on chicken thighs (about 1 lb)
  • 2 teaspoons fine salt
  • 2 tablespoons ghee
  • 1 tablespoon cumin seeds
  • 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 tablespoon rose water
  • 1 ½ cups long grain white basmati rice
  • 8 small yellow/Yukon potatoes
  • Fresh flat-leaf parsley sprigs (for serving)
  • Fresh cilantro sprigs (for serving)
  • Scallions (for serving)
  • Radishes (for serving)
Suitable for

Suitable for adults, and kids (minimum 11 years old).

An adult must accompany any attending kids, and must pay for a separate ticket.

This experience would also be a fun gift for her, gift for mom or gift for couples.

More about this class

This class is new, and is covered by ClassBento's money-back guarantee.

Your teacher

Mab

Mab


Mahboubeh (Mab) was born and raised in Khorramshahr, a city with a large Arab population in southern Iran. Her father owned a restaurant, a grocery store, and a tea importing company, and he taught her about picking the best ingredients for every recipe. Her mother taught her how to cook, often making dishes from the Azeri region of northern Iran, where both of Mab’s parents grew up.

When cooking with her family, Mab learned to go “low and slow” to bring out the incredible flavors and smells of the food that would transport them back to Azeri. For Mab, cooking is the intersection between culture, memory, medicine, nature, and art. This intersectional approach to cooking is clear in the delicious, stunning, and meaningful dishes she teaches in her League of Kitchens workshops.
Mab is both a documentary filmmaker and an activist—involved in the Iranian Revolution in the late 1970s, she was later persecuted by the Islamic Republic as a vocal advocate for women’s rights. After being imprisoned three times during the 2000s for organizing peaceful protests, she fled Iran and moved to New York City as a political refugee. She currently lives in San Francisco and, alongside her work as a multimedia journalist, teaches and researches the integration of cooking and mindfulness.
Mab and her incredible food have been featured in New York Magazine (Grubstreet), Food & Wine, Slow Food USA, Wall Street Journal, Saveur, Good Food Podcast, Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia Turshen, and other publications.




Your host

The League of Kitchens
The League of Kitchens


The League of Kitchens is a culinary dream-team of women from around the world who will welcome you into their homes, teach you their family recipes, and inspire you with their personal stories.
Each experience offers opportunities for meaningful connection and social interaction, cultural engagement and exchange, culinary learning and discovery, and exceptional eating and drinking. Through this experience, the League of Kitchens seeks to build cross-cultural connection and understanding, to increase access to traditional cooking knowledge, and to provide meaningful, well-paid employment and training for immigrants.

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