Case Study Camelon Connect - Cyrenians

Dignity and Food Workshop

Cyrenians partnered with Tamfourhill Community Centre and Rainbow Ladies Muslim Group to deliver a food event to a diverse group of local community members. The aim of the event was to bring together members of the local community, including newcomers and refugees and to teach and demonstrate how to make a cheaper alternative Fakeaway - Healthy Pakora. This would be a fun and interactive event that could teach new skills, increase confidence in the kitchen, as well as discussing ways to reduce food shopping costs.

Who benefited? 14 individuals attended plus 14 fakeaway ingredients & recipe bags given

This allowed participants to use their new cooking skills at home and spread their learning onto others.

Vegetable Pakora Recipe

Ingredients

2 potatoes

1 onion

100g gram flour

I handful of spinach - washed

1 heaped tablespoon of frozen peas

1 tablespoon of dried fenugreek leaves

Pinch of salt

½ teaspoon of chilli powder

1 teaspoon of coriander seeds

1 teaspoon of cumin seeds

Water – enough to form a soft dough

Method

Cut potatoes and onions into slices. Mix together all other ingredients in a bowl. Add potatoes and onions and a little water. Mix together to form a soft dough.

Take a tablespoon of mixture and drop gently into pan of hot vegetable oil. Cook for few minutes each side until golden brown.

Tasty pakora is ready!

I had no idea that this was going to be so easy, I'll be making this once a week from now on. No more takeaways for me.

You've managed to sneak in 4 portions of different vegetables without me realising that. I usually hate veg but his is mega!

This was a great session to deliver from our centre, so good to see our diverse community coming together and having a bit of fun and learning new skills together

We have a new young person's service starting and we are about to start some work with Ukranian refugees, so we will use the cooking skills and knowledge we have learnt during this workshop and apply it to other groups and projects.