Persian Cooking Online with Mab

Learn to make baghali ghatogh (dill-scented lima beans topped with poached eggs) paired with zireh polo kateh ba tahdig (Persian rice with crispy tahdig)!

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 Mab will guide you through making two of her family recipes. First you will learn how to make Mab's golden, delicious baghali ghatogh (lima beans cooked with dill, garlic, and turmeric, topped with poached eggs). Then you will prepare zireh polo kateh ba tahdig (fluffy basmati rice mixed with sautéed red onion, cumin seed, and turmeric and topped with a crispy, delicious tahdig).

We encourage you to sign up with friends and family (they can live anywhere!), and we encourage you to cook along with your partner/roommate/kids! (The price is per device)

Here’s what you’ll need:

• 1 cup dried small lima beans (soaked overnight) OR canned white/cannellini beans
• 3 eggs (optional->for topping the bean dish)
• 1 medium red onion
• 1 1/2 cup white basmati or white jasmine rice
• 1 10" flour tortilla
• Extra virgin olive oil, avocado oil, or other neutral oil
• Ghee
• 2 large bunches of fresh dill
• Garlic
• Turmeric
• Cayenne or aleppo pepper
• Fine sea salt
• Ground Cinnamon
• Cinnamon Stick
• Cumin seeds

Here’s how it works:

• Within 24 hours of 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.

We are very excited for you to learn Persian cooking with Mab!