Cooking Class: Cook an Authentic Turkish Feast
Discover time-honored techniques from Turkish cuisine as you prepare a Cappadocian feast in this hands-on cooking class from Chef Maggie. She'll transport you to this historic region with lessons on a menu that sings with authentic flavor.
Begin with a traditional starter of grape leaves stuffed with a blend of rice, sour cherry and aromatic herbs. Then, create an authentic Turkish hand pie and prepare garbanzo bean dumplings and a zesty grilled vegetable side dish. For dessert, create beloved Turkish delights that blend fresh pistachios and sugar into a decadent Mediterranean treat.
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Yaprak Sarmasi
Grape leaves filled with rice, cinnamon, mint and sour cherry
Yavlava
Classic meat pie with sweet chili paste, ground beef and garlic
Manti Dumplings
With onions and garbanzo
Grilled Vegetables
With tomatoes, peppers and onions
Rose Turkish Delights
With sugar and pistachios
- Minimum Guests 2
- Maximum Guests 14
- Event Duration 3 hours
- Activity Level
Activity Level
- LabelsCouples, Group, Beginner, Date Night, Fun
- This is a BYOB venue and alcoholic beverages are not available for sale. You are welcome to bring beer and wine to enjoy during class.
Classpop! Guest Reviews for other experiences with Chef Maggie
Kelli
04 Sep 2023
Really fun experience and good food.
Laura
29 Apr 2023
Maggie is expert, funny, and inclusive in her teaching. We had a great time. Important to note that this place takes place in a commercial kitchen, which wasn't obvious from the address given for the classpop. Really enjoyed it!
Sam
16 Apr 2023
It was a really fun night with chef Tyler. However, i spoke with every participant and we all felt that this shouldn’t be called a cooking class—it’s really more of a cooking demonstration. 90% of the evening was just watching chef Tyler cook. A cooking class, in my experience, should involve significantly more hands-on cooking experience where you learn some different techniques and you get to cook most of your meal yourself. The only “cooking” we actually got to do was some kneading of dough. That’s not a cooking class. The elf ears were already prepared, the berry mixture was already prepared, the salad was prepared for us—the potatoes and beets were cooked for us, the lamb was cooked and sliced for us. For this much money, it feels like false advertising for us as the participants to basically not even have the option to do any cooking ourselves. It was essentially a catered meal with a detailed explanation of what the chef was doing at each step. The meal was good and the night was fun. Chef Tyler is great. But it wasn’t what we (or any of the other 6 guests we talked to) signed up for. We came in with the expectation that we’d actually be cooking what we ate.
Event location: Denver
Chef’s Place
Exact location is provided after booking.
Meet your chef
A caterer, instructor and private chef, Chef Maggie has found herself continuing her culinary journey in Denver. After living in Spain, Chef Maggie developed a deep passion for food. She completed the American Culinary Federation Chef Apprenticeship program and has since focused on building her toolbox of culinary skills. Now, Chef Maggie offers her unique and culturally inspired skill set in cooking classes that awaken the senses with comfortable menus that also evoke curiosity and surprise.
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