Taste of the Levant – traditional Meze

Levantine cuisine is a mix of culinary traditions from an area of the Middle East broadly made up of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. The cuisine has been influenced over years by various cultures and civilisations including the Greeks, Romans, Ottomans and Arabs. It is noted for fresh, locally sourced ingredients, grains, spices and olive oil, legumes and vegetables along with fish, dairy and wine.

Join us for our Taste of the Levant workshop where we will make 3 authentic meze dishes.

• Ful medames – a stew made of fava beans cooked with tomatoes, herbs and olive oil
• Baba ghanoush – a dip made from baked aubergine flavoured with garlic and lemon.
• Khubz – a Lebanese pitta bread

We’ll also demonstrate how to make quick pink pickled onions to go with your dishes.

All recipes are suitable for vegans and vegetarians. Our workshops are fun and informal, our tutor will support you to prepare the recipes.

Our workshops are fun and informal, our tutor will support you to prepare the recipes. We’ll chat about the Middle Eastern approach to eating – a social event including lots of small plates eaten with family and friends.

This workshop will be led by Jackie Vural, an experienced cook of many cuisines with a particular passion for bread making. Jackie is a regular Lang Spoon Kitchen tutor. She has worked with Greener Kirkcaldy for a long time and she loves sharing her skills.

All ingredients, equipment, aprons, handouts, recipes and refreshments are included in the price of your ticket.

Don’t forget to bring some containers to take your food home with you to enjoy.

This is a hands-on cooking class. Some cooking skills are required to enjoy this workshop, such as basic knife skills.

Vegetarian and vegan options are available. If you have any dietary requirements or queries about the ingredients used in the workshop, please let us know when you are booking.

The Lang Spoon Comunity Kitchen

The Lang Spoon Community Kitchen is part of Greener Kirkcaldy’s community building. We’re Based in the heart of Kirkcaldy, close to the High Street and the train and bus station. Find out how to get here.

Our purpose built training kitchen has eight workstations, purpose-built to replicate the ease and comfort of of cooking at home.

Our cookery school is complemented by a productive and climate-friendly garden, where we run volunteer training sessions and grow seasonal herbs, fruit and vegetables to use in our classes and events. We also have a larger community training garden and orchard in Dysart.

We host a wide range of events, courses and workshops on all aspects of food and drink. Both our Community Training Kitchen and Production Kitchen are available for hire too.

Booking Information

Full price: £45

Friends / couples*: £75

Greener Kirkcaldy members/volunteers: £40.50

Concessions**: £36

*Two people enjoy the cooking experience together using the same ingredients.

** Greener Kirkcaldy is committed to accessibility and we offer a concession rate to people in receipt of the following benefits: Students (full time), Senior Citizens (65+), eligible benefits (Income Support, Working Tax Credit, Income based Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income based Employment and Support Allowance, Housing Benefit and Universal Credit).

We also offer a free basic community cooking skills and household budgeting programme to help people on a low income cook healthy and affordable meals: Smart Cooking

Our booking form includes a series of optional anonymous questions. These help us learn more about the people we reach through our events. Any information you choose to share about your background is managed separately to information that you give us to process your booking (for example, your name).

If you have any problems booking or any questions, please phone 01592 858458 or email info@greenerkirkcaldy.org.uk.

Refund policy – We can refund your order up until 7 days before the event. If you cancel your order less than 7 days before the event we will be unable to provide a refund.

Accessibility

There are accessible parking bays available outside 8 East Fergus Place. There is a ramp into the building and level access throughout. There is also an accessible toilet. Our kitchen has an adjustable cooking station. This is suitable for those in wheelchairs or who need to sit while cooking.

If you have any other accessibility questions or would like the resources at the event to be in large print please phone 01592 858458 or email info@greenerkirkcaldy.org.uk.

About our events

Our paid courses and workshops are run as a social enterprise. By taking part, you are helping to make a difference in our community.

Your support helps us continue to work with beginner cooks; people in training and on placement young people and support people in food insecurity access food in a dignified way.

Greener Kirkcaldy Gift Card

You can buy a Greener Kirkcaldy gift card online. You can use them to purchase tickets for any of our social enterprise workshops. You can use them more than once so if you do not spend the full amount in one go you can spend the rest at a later date.

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