Volunteers cook hot meals for Afghan refugees

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TULSA, Okla. — Cooks spent respective hours successful the room astatine Catholic Charities preparing meals for astir 800 Afghan refugees, Thursday night.

"That’s our joyousness to supply this nutrient for them," Michael Egan, laminitis of the Khan Ohana Foundation, said.

Egan's enactment began arsenic a tiny nutrient pantry to assistance provender the bare successful Green Country. Now, astir 700 volunteers from Khan Ohana are coming guardant to invited 200 Afghan families that were forced to permission their location country.

"The fig of radical that person signed up is truly heartwarming," Egan said.

The challenge, speech from preparing 800 blistery meals, is cooking foods that Afghan families are acquainted with. Egan said smoked Oklahoma bar-b-que won't chopped it, truthful helium called upon cooks with Middle-Eastern roots to whip up meals they volition each enjoy.

“It’s precise casual for them to accommodate and chopped retired a fewer spices oregon adhd spices and hole nutrient that they’re acquainted with," helium said.

They person already prepared accepted Afghan meals for 4 families present settled successful Tulsa, similar kabuli palao, a atom and lamb crockery that is simply a staple successful Afghan cuisine.

“We’ve heard backmost that they truly admit the meals, due to the fact that it’s a home-cooked meal," helium said.

Home cooked meals successful their caller home.

"I deliberation that’s going to beryllium a large summation to the Tulsa community," Egan said.

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