Little Chefs, Big Skills: Making Chapati for Iftar

Our young chefs made chapati for ๐™ž๐™›๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ง with Mama Juma.

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๐—™๐—น๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ-๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€, ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ด๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ฟ, ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜€ ๐˜€๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—น ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ต๐—น๐˜† ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ.

Our young chefs had a wonderful time learning to ๐—ธ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ด๐—ต, roll it into ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜ ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€, and carefully cook each chapati on the pan under the loving guidance of ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฎ ๐—๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฎ.

The chapati they made were for ๐™ž๐™›๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ง, the meal that breaks the daily fast during Ramadan. As they shaped each flatbread and watched it turn golden on the pan, the children discovered that cooking is about more than food. It is about ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ, ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ, and keeping ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€ alive across generations.

And of course, ๐—œ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ bravely volunteered to taste-testโ€ฆ just to make sure they were edible.๐Ÿ˜‹