All Recipes and Posts by Leah

Meet Reshma Sinha, our newest chef instructor!

Posted on: October 15, 2013 | Category : Uncategorized

Cuisine: Indian Sign up for Reshma’s cooking class on Bengali Indian cuisine here! Reshma is a whole-foods culinary enthusiast, cooking show host and instructor. She received a Bachelor’s degree in biology and Master’s in biology education from Columbia University. After trying her hand in teaching high school science for some time,...
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Pork Adobo

Recipe Type: Pork Tags: Cooking, Culture, filipino, Food, Recipes

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Adobo is the unofficial national dish of the Philippines. Typically Adobo consists of chicken or pork marinated in soy sauce, ...

Pinakbet

Recipe Type: Pork, Shrimp, Vegetable Tags: Cooking, Culture, filipino, Food, Recipes

Average Rating: (4.5 / 5)

Recipe courtesy of Melanie Cecilio.

Pancit Molo

Recipe Type: Chicken, Pork Tags: Cooking, filipino, Food, Recipes

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*Note: Ready made fried garlic is available bottled in most Asian markets; if you want to make it yourself, here ...

Kinilaw

Recipe Type: Fish Tags: Cooking, filipino, Recipes

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Kinilaw is a Filipino ceviche dish using fresh white fish marinated in cane sugar vinegar, coconut milk, and spices. Recipe ...

Meet Melanie Cecilio, our newest chef instructor!

Posted on: August 29, 2013 | Category : Uncategorized

Cuisine: Filipino Melanie grew up in the Philippines and now lives and works in New York. Her career as a chef began in Switzerland where she went to hotel school, and had her first job as a service stagiare (French term for apprentice) in a Gault Millau awarded restaurant. She eventually...
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Sambal

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Sambal is a condiment that has a chili-based sauce. Recipe courtesy of Mohan Kulasingam.

Rojak (fruit and vegetable salad)

Recipe Type: Fruit, Vegetable

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Recipe courtesy of Mohan Kulasingam.

Lamb Cutlets

Recipe Type: Lamb

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Recipe courtesy of Mohan Kulasingam.

Shrimp and chive dumplings

Recipe Type: Pork, Shrimp

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Recipe courtesy of Mohan Kulasingam.

Curry Laksa

Recipe Type: Chicken, Noodles

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Laksa is a popular spicy noodle soup from the Peranakan culture, which is a merger of Chinese and Malay elements ...

Meet chef instructor Veda Sukhu!

Posted on: July 14, 2013 | Category : Chef Instructors

Cuisine: Guyanese Veda has been with Global Kitchen since the beginning – leading our pilot class in May 2012 (watch a video of the class here) and several other classes in the months following. She is beloved by our students for her sweet disposition and her stories about growing up in...
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Potato Choka

Recipe Type: Potatoes

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Recipe courtesy of Veda Sukhu.

Escarole Salad with Fennel, Oranges and Olives

Recipe Type: Vegetable

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Escarole is a bitter salad and a perfect complement to the chicken provencal. To enhance the taste of this salad, ...

Cherry Clafouti

Recipe Type: Pastry, Sweet

Average Rating: (5 / 5)

For this recipe, it is best to prepare the batter 2 to 3 hours before use, or even over-night and ...

Chicken Provencal

Recipe Type: Chicken

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*Additional options: You may want to use fennel seeds into the stew. You can then put some Pastis (anise liquor) ...

Meet our newest chef instructor: Isabelle Lapin!

Posted on: June 19, 2013 | Category : Chef Instructors, News & Updates

Cuisine: French-Jewish Chef Isabelle Lapin’s love of cooking started at an early age while watching her mother cook at the stove in their Paris apartment. A 20-year detour through caring for her five children has brought her back to cooking healthy, seasonal, tasty and colorful food. While studying statistics at...
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Yesuf fitifit

Recipe Type: Vegetable

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The most unique dish in the lot, Yesuf Fitfit incorporates crumbled pieces of injera with unfiltered sunflower milk to create ...

Injera

Recipe Type: Bread

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Injera is fermented Ethiopian teff flour-based flatbread. Making injera from scratch takes patience more than anything. The recipe is simple, ...

Timatim Selata

Recipe Type: Vegetable

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A simple tomato salad, but an important part of the meal. Timatim Selata is refreshing and slightly spicy, akin to ...

Fish Fatayas

Recipe Type: Fish, Pastry

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These deep-fried empanada-like snacks are a popular street food in Senegal. Recipe courtesy of Nafissa Camara.

Chicken Yassa

Recipe Type: Chicken, Rice

Average Rating: (5 / 5)

We’re hiring!

Posted on: March 20, 2013 | Category : News & Updates

Global Kitchen is looking for a part-time Operations Manager to join our team. The position is paid, with potential to turn into a full-time gig. Sorry, we are no longer accepting applications for this position.
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Kedija Selata

Recipe Type: Vegetable

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A Bunna Cafe original, Kedija Selata merges minced kale with avocado, tomato, jalapeno, and lime. Spicy, tangy, refreshing, and nutritious, ...

Yater kik Alicha

Recipe Type: Vegetable

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Yellow split peas, red onion, ginger, and yellow curry — savory, mild and slightly sweet. Yater Kik Alicha serves as ...

Keysir

Recipe Type: Potatoes, Vegetable

Average Rating: (4 / 5)

Beets, potatoes and carrots, cooked in oil, Keysir is the sweetest of the dishes and the most colorful. The deep ...

Gomen

Recipe Type: Vegetable

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Steamed kale, carrots, and ginger. Gomen is savory and mouth-watering, and serves as a vitamin-laden meal by itself. The main ...

Miser Wot

Recipe Type: Vegetable

Average Rating: (5 / 5)

Red Lentils, Garlic, Onion, Ginger, Tomato, Oil, and Berbere (Ethiopian pepper seasoning) makes this dish a spicy experience but not ...

Traditional family recipes for the holidays

Posted on: December 10, 2012 | Category : Uncategorized

By Ryan The holidays are rapidly approaching and with them come floods of memories and family traditions. And of course, no holiday traditions are quite as integral as those that center on food. Each family, culture, and community has its own holiday food traditions. For me that means some Norwegian...
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Our Ethiopian cooking class: the details

Posted on: November 25, 2012 | Category : Classes, News & Updates

Global Kitchen is thrilled to collaborate with Bunna Cafe for our next event. For this event we are doing something a little different. The evening will begin with chef instructor Kedija Ali doing a quick demo on how to make a classic Ethiopian dish, Injera, while explaining the spices and...
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Our Guyanese cooking class: the details

Posted on: November 21, 2012 | Category : Classes, News & Updates

After the resounding success of our first class we can’t wait to host the next one. Luckily we don’t have to wait long since we’re officially scheduled for Friday, Nov. 30th! We are especially excited because our next class features Guyanese cuisine, taught by our amazing chef instructor, Veda Sukhu. ...
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Hummus

Recipe Type: Vegetable

Average Rating: (5 / 5)

A staple of Mediterranean cuisine, hummus is the perfect accompaniment to our Egyptian koshary. You can use this recipe as ...

Egyptian Koshary

Recipe Type: Rice, Vegetable

Average Rating: (4 / 5)

Koshary is truly an Egyptian dish, if not in origin, then at least in the fervor with which Egyptians of ...

Our Egyptian cooking class: the details

Posted on: October 19, 2012 | Category : Classes

We are thrilled to have our first official cooking class scheduled for next Thursday, October 25! After months of planning and a successful crowdfunding campaign, this is truly the moment we have been waiting for. For our first class, we wanted to make sure we were offering up some unique...
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Posted on: October 16, 2012 | Category : Classes

Global Kitchen is officially underway! Our first class is scheduled for Thursday, October 25. Ragab Rashwan will be teaching Egyptian cuisine including classic dishes such as koshary, tabbouleh and hummus – all from scratch! For more information, please click here. We would love to have you join us for what...
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News and Events

Meet Reshma Sinha, our newest chef instructor!

Cuisine: Indian Sign up for Reshma’s cooking class on Bengali Indian cuisine here! Reshma is a whole-foods culinary enthusiast, cooking show host and instructor. She... read more
Meet Melanie Cecilio, our newest chef instructor!

Cuisine: Filipino Melanie grew up in the Philippines and now lives and works in New York. Her career as a chef began in Switzerland... read more
Meet chef instructor Veda Sukhu!

Cuisine: Guyanese Veda has been with Global Kitchen since the beginning – leading our pilot class in May 2012 (watch a video of the... read more