Six Recipes from Canada’s Refugee Community for Your Next Summer Meal

Looking for a delicious starter, main course or sweet treat for a special summer barbecue or dinner? This tasting menu from the free “Tastes from Home” e-cookbook has you covered.

Pork chops plated with tomatoes and asparagus.

1. Salvadoran Guacamole

Bowl of guacamole with tortilla chips.
Lucila Cabrera’s famous Salvadoran-style guacamole. © UNHCR/Deirdre Doyle

“My way is a pinch of this [and] a pinch of that.”

2. Garlic-Butter Scallops

Three scallops plated with lemon slices and herbs.
Garlic-Butter Scallops, one of the Hon. Ahmed Hussen’s favourite dishes. © UNHCR/Deirdre Doyle

3. BBQ Lemongrass Pork Chops

Pork chops plated with tomatoes and asparagus.
BBQ Lemongrass Pork Chops, made from Pam Pham’s recipe. © UNHCR/Deirdre Doyle

4. Muhammara with Walnut

Muhammara, a roasted red pepper dip, served with walnuts and herbs.
Muhamarra with walnut dip, made from Aya Wadi’s recipe. © UNHCR/Deirdre Doyle

“The nice thing is that we can share [our culture] through food.”

5. Juice of Fenugreek

Juice of Fenugreek served with orange, lemon, and lime halves.
Amina Abdulrahim’s Juice of Fenugreek recipe. © UNHCR/Vipoositha Gnanenthra

6. Honey Cake

Honey cake topped with coffee beans and orange zest.
Liba Magarschak Augenfeld’s Honey Cake recipe, which was passed down to her daughter, Rivka. © UNHCR/ Vipoositha Gnanenthra

“We’d be talking and my father [would say]… ‘Can we just take a moment, and speak about the cake? This cake is delicious.’”

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