Cape Town Malay Cooking ClassesLekka KombuisWhat about doing a Cape Town Malay Cooking Class? If you ever fancied learning how to make delicious traditional Cape Malay food in Cape Town, you definitely are in for a treat if you book a cooking class with Gamidah.
When I joined one of Gamidah's Cape Town Malay cooking classes while doing a combined Bo-Kaap Culture, Crafts and Culinary Tour, we were having lots of fun preparing and eating traditional Cape Malay Food.
You will learn to make really simple Cape Malay food which is enjoyed in the Cape Malay homes every day. Hence the name: "Lekka Kombuis", which means as much as "Delicious Homemade Food". While Gamidah was telling us many stories about her cultural upbringing and the traditional fast for Muslims at Ramadan, we were busy rolling our rotis, folding up yummy samoosas and watching our hostess creating a very tasty chicken curry with lots of fragrant spices. Cape Malay Cooking ClassThe Cape Town Malay cooking class takes place in one of the beautiful colourful houses in Bo-Kaap.The kitchen is modern, clean and well equipped. Gamidah who is giving cooking classes already for many years in her own home is a wonderful chef who prepares a delcious meal which you will eat together in her modern kitchen. The class is very relaxed and as much hands-on as you like. So feel free to join in the fun or relax, watch and enjoy.
When the meal was cooked and ready to be served, we already had snacked on our samoosas and then enjoyed the other dishes we had prepared together.
As another treat Gamidah served us her fabulous Cape Malay koeksisters as a dessert. This Malay sweet pastry is totally different in texture, taste and appearance to the cooksisters you will find in most shops in Cape Town. Cape Malay cooksisters do not look like the braided pastry of the Afrikaans cooking tradition, but more simple, looking like smaller donuts. They are very delicious and not as sticky and sweet as the Afrikaans koeksisters.
Most of the fun of the two hour cooking class definitely was the rolling and folding up of the vegetarian samoosas.
For us beginners it was quite an achievement to get a perfectly formed triangular samoosa, without dripping filling or ripped pastry sheets's. And the taste was really simple but oh so yummy! This actually makes the perfect snack for your next dinner party. So here is Gamidah's fabulous recipe. Typical Cape Malay Samoosas - Recipe by GamidahBuy frozen samoosa sheets (available at most supermarkets in Cape Town) which you will have to defrost before starting to make your samoosas.You will also need as a vegetarian samoosa filling: 1 cup grated cheese 2 onions chopped 1 tsp BBQ spice Mix these three ingredients. Now the fun part starts, Gamidah showed us all the tricks to get a perfectly shaped triangular samoosa. :-) Fold one end of the pastry sheet to form a triangle. Then loosen the triangle and build a small cone overlapping a bit. In the cone shaped opening add some of the samoosa filling and fold up in triangular shape again and again tightly, until you can glue the last bit of the sheet with a little bit of (flour and water-mix) "glue" to get a tight triangular samoosa. If this sounds too complicated, well I just can advise to book a class with Gamidah. Once you have seen Gamidah doing hers and tried to fold up some of your own with her help it is not difficult at all! Have fun and enjoy! So lekker! Cape Town Bo-Kaap Tour and Cooking ClassIf you want to experience the wonderful Cape Malay hospitality and learn a bit more about the historic Cape Malay Quarter in Cape Town, book the excellent BoKaap Tour Pam McOnie offers with her Cape Fusion Tours.
To learn more about Pam's Bo-Kaap Tour, read what you can explore when you visit the brightly colored Cape Town suburb with her.
Interested in seeing one of South Africas Top Cape Malay Chefs in Action? Then you really should read about Cass Abrahams and her Cape Malay Cooking Class. Her cooking classes are excellent too and you will learn some more great secrets about the Cape Malay Cuisine when cooking under her supervision a wonderful South African three course menu.
Go to Cass Abrahams Cape Malay Cooking Class
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