Nigerian Cookery Class with Charity |Veg Friendly | LONDON | Pop Up

Nothing beats a home-cooked meal shared with family! And this is what inspires our Family Style Cookery Classes, a fun, laid-back homestyle cooking experience. Here, you will learn to prepare different dishes and then enjoy them with people who, like you, fuel our mission of supporting refugee and migrant chefs on their journey to integration. It’s a cookery class with a conscience, like they say!

Your class will be led by our wonderful Chef Charity from Nigeria at in Peckham, London.

At our Family Style Cookery Classes, you will be grouped with other participants and prepare dishes together as a team. Think of Chef Charity as the head of the family! She will take care of dividing the class into groups, and each group will be responsible for creating one of the dishes. Of course, you are welcome and encouraged to move around during the class to learn about the other dishes being prepared. Throughout the evening, Chef Charity will share stories about their food and culture, and explain how to prepare each of the dishes so you come away with some new cooking tricks and inspiration from Nigeria. You will also be emailed the recipes after the class.

Menu, subject to change:

• Jollof Rice (Traditional Nigerian Rice) | Vegan; Celery
• Ewa Oloyin (Stewed Honey Beans with Plantain) | Vegan; Celery
• Pounded Yam | Vegan; None
• Obe Ila (Okra and Mushroom Soup) | Vegan; Celery
• Akara (Black-eyed Bean Fritters with Charity’s Chilli Sauce) | Vegan; Celery
• Obe Ata (Chicken and Pepper Stew) | Meat (Chicken); Celery

This menu contains meat (chicken) but 5/6 dishes are vegan. Allergens include: celery.

Please let us know if you have any specific dietary requirements so our team is aware ahead of the class, but kindly note that we will not be substituting any ingredients to accommodate dietary needs, so please only book into classes that suit your dietary requirements. Allergen information for this class will be updated closer to the class time. Please see our when booking into the class for more information.

A message from our Chef Charity:

“My name is Charity. I am of Nigerian origin and part of the Igbo/Igo people (an ethnic group in Nigeria). I was born in Lagos but have been living in the UK for the past 10 years and this is home now. I’m the mother of three girls, age 23, 7 and 4 and live with them and my husband in London. My husband is also a chef. My girls keep me busy!

My mother died when I was very little and I was brought up by my grandmother who was my backbone. She gave me courage and wisdom to become something in life. She always told me how smart I was and I have always been the first person to ask a question. My grandmother also taught me how to cook.

I come from a big family and love nothing more than cooking for them. I’m always pushed into the kitchen by all my family who love my food. Outside food I love watching films, particularly horror films and comedies. As well as cooking, I love dancing and music and am going to play some Nigerian music in my Migrateful classes, so feel free to dance along.

I heard about Migrateful through another charity called WINGS which supports women and children that don’t have status in the UK. I cook for the staff and volunteers at WINGS and my jollof rice is very popular there”.

We’re excited to have you in the class! Please take note of a few final reminders:

• We will send you a reminder email 3 days before the class takes place that will include our In-Person Class COVID-19 Policy. You can also find more information on our website and social media pages.
• This small-scale class for 12 participants is not socially distanced. For those seeking a Covid-secure cookery class, please see our online events.
• We require a minimum of 6 participants to run this class and reserve the right to cancel it due to insufficient enrolment. If this occurs, we will, at your convenience, transfer you to another class of your choice of the same value. If this option does not suit you, you will have the choice to receive either a gift voucher for the class or a full refund. In the case of insufficient enrolment, we will inform you at least 6 days before the class.
• Payments made through Paypal can take up to 48 hours to have the order confirmed. To guarantee your spot in a cookery class we recommend using a debit or credit card.
• We only process refunds and ticket transfers if we are notified 7 days before the class takes place. No changes are allowed if the class is missed. When you register for this event, you are agreeing to our Terms and Conditions. If you are not able to attend the class, you can pass on your tickets so someone else can attend on your behalf.
• Ingredients used in our classes contain, may contain, or may have been manufactured/prepared on shared equipment with the 14 allergens listed above. We cannot guarantee that any food or drink prepared or consumed in any of the Migrateful Cookery Classes are free from any of the 14 allergens, or any other ingredient. Migrateful’s Cookery Classes are hosted in our busy cookery school or in external venues that handle allergens. Even in classes where allergens are not used, the ingredients for the class may have been stored in close proximity to allergens and other ingredients, and/or equipment and surfaces may have previously come into contact with allergens and other ingredients. Participants attend classes at their own risk.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

All Saints Church, 7 Blenheim Grove, London, United Kingdom