The Great Sambusa Community Cooking Class

Sunday, July 19, 2020 - 2-4 pm
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The HOME Refugee Steering Committee at Lynden and Tables Across Borders invite you to join us for the first episode in our (virtual) bimonthly community cooking series.

Coordinated by Kai Gardner Mishlove, Tables Across Borders is a global food collaboration that highlights the cuisines of refugee chefs by linking great chefs together and creating connections to Milwaukee-area restaurants, such as Amilinda, The Tandem, Tricklebee Café, and beyond. With restaurants closed during the pandemic, TAB is sharing the skills of its chefs through these online cooking classes. The community cooking series is an opportunity for chefs across cultures to share tips and recipes from their own cuisines while also allowing us to explore how cuisines cross-pollinate as people migrate and need to adapt techniques and ingredients in a new homeland. Cooking is a place where we interact, exchange, borrow, and invent and imagine new ways of being with each other.

In the Great Sambusa Community Cooking Class, you will learn how to make your own sambusas by cooking along with featured chef Hasina Begum Ashraf Mia. Sambusas, also known as samosas, are common across many cultures: they are portable treats that encase (usually) savory fillings in baked or fried pastry. Hasina will be joined by Norjan Jaan, Rahena Aziz, May June Paw, Ifrah Yusuf, and Sumeya Osman, all of whom will be cooking their own version of the sambusa, sharing tips, and illustrating the way cuisines mix and grow in new places.

Hasina’s Samosa Recipe

Prepare your ingredients in advance, and cook and learn with Hasina and TAB chefs!

For frying equipment, use your available kitchenware, like a frying pan or wok of your choice, that is medium in size so that the samosas can be easily flipped. For cooking utensils to fry and flip the samosas, a strainer or round skimmer, and tongs, or alternative utensils that are heat resistant will be needed.

Makes 20-25 sambusas

Ingredients
All ingredients should be fresh and finely chopped in advance unless otherwise noted.

4 red onions
2 cloves garlic
1 bunch green onion
5 large potatoes 
4 pieces green chili
1 bunch coriander, fresh
½-1 cup turmeric powder
½-1 cup Garam Masala Powder, or spice mix of your choice
1/2-1 cup red chili powder
1 packet of spring roll pastry (25 sheets)
Vegetable oil for frying
1/2 pound of minced meat, preferably beef keema (ground beef) or minced chicken

For a vegetarian/vegan option, substitute 1/2 cabbage head, shredded, and 3 carrots (chopped), or a vegetable of your choice.

About Featured Chef Hasina Begum Ashraf Mia
Hasina Begum Ashraf Mia is a Rohingya refugee community leader from Myanmar/Malaysia. Prior to resettling to Milwaukee, Hasina was the head and supervisor of a refugee kindergarten learning center under the Penang Stop Human Trafficking Campaign. Through leading this work, Hasina played a pivotal role in developing strategy and approaches to case management, community health clinics, resettlement issues, and arrest and detention faced by her community. In Milwaukee, Hasina continues to lead, organize, and support community initiatives and events, including advising community advocates on refugee issues, presenting Rohingya/Burmese/Malaysian cuisine for Tables Across Borders, organizing and participating in community fashion shows and celebrations, co-coordinating Lynden's HOME event for World Refugee Week, and impacting and involving community members in the arts. Through her life's work, and inspired by the active Lynden community, Hasina's interests and involvement include batiking with textile artist Arianne King Comer and community worker/artist Kim Khaira, modelling for Rosemary Ollison's Beyond Fashion show, and building the refugee and immigrant community through HOME.

Featured chefs in the video: Kai Gardner Mishlove, May June Paw, Aditi Narayan, Rahena Aziz, Hasina Begum Ashraf Mia, Norjan Jaan, and Ifrah Yusuf.