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Ilhan Abdi: The Ramadan Kitchen
Season 25 · Episode 26

Ilhan Abdi: The Ramadan Kitchen

Recipes from Ramadan

Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith · Gilly Smith

March 5, 202621m 22s

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Show Notes

This week as millions of people all over the world are celebrating Ramadan, we’re with London-based Somali-Egyptian food writer, Ilhan Abdi to talk about her book, The Ramadan Kitchen.


A former Amazon corporate employee, she left to focus on cooking content, gaining 265k Instagram followers (@Ilhanm.a) through live Ramadan cooking sessions inspired by her mum’s dishes during lockdown, and has since become a mother herself.  She tells us about her recipes inspired by Ramadan traditions, including suhoor and iftar dishes like Somali rice, samosas, and syrup-soaked doughballs.


Pop over to Gilly's Substack for Extra Bites of Ilhan including a recipe from her book, and a beautiful prayer that means so much to her. 


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