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Marrakech: Traditional Moroccan Cooking Class & Market Visit

1. Marrakech: Traditional Moroccan Cooking Class & Market Visit

You will meet Khmisa and Kawtar, who will host you for a meal at Khmisa's place in the heart of Medina. Enjoy Moroccan traditional cuisine together with the chefs. You will be welcomed with traditional mint tea. First, you will discuss with the chefs the menu choices for you, which will be composed of the most typical best Moroccan dishes. Then you will go with Chef Khmisa to the Old Souk. The walk through the souk to buy the fresh ingredients will allow you to learn more about Moroccan culinary culture. Once back home from the market, you will start the preparation with the chef. You can sit and enjoy the meal with your group, or if you’ve chosen the private tour option, dine with your close friends and family and take in the home-cooked food.

Marrakech: Tagine Cookery Class With a Local

2. Marrakech: Tagine Cookery Class With a Local

Get ready for the ultimate tajine experience on this one of a kind tour in Marrakech. From market to plate, you’ll learn how to whip up a tajine from scratch, using ingredients from the famous Marrakech souks. The best part of it all? You get to devour your tajine after you’ve made it! Stroll among the locals as you select the meat, vegetables, herbs, and spices that form the basis of Moroccan cuisine. Learn how spices are used, and about their historic importation to Morocco over thousands of years. Discover homegrown ingredients, such as saffron from Taliouine, mint and olives from Meknes, and oranges and lemons from Fez. Then, during your hands-on cookery class, an expert chef will teach you how to make traditional dishes central to Moroccan meals. Among the most famous Moroccan dishes are couscous, pastila, tagine, tanjia, and harira. Although the last is a soup, it is considered a dish in itself, especially during Ramadan, and is often served with delicious local dates. Once you have prepared your tagine meal, sit down to savor the delights of your cookery class in the delightful surroundings of a typical riad. Afterwards you will be transferred back to your hotel, armed with your own exclusive Moroccan recipes to try at home.

Essaouira: Traditional Family Style Moroccan Cooking Class

3. Essaouira: Traditional Family Style Moroccan Cooking Class

Enjoy an evening in the name of Moroccan food and culture. Visit a local market, where you shop for the ingredients you will cook with later. Cook up a traditional Moroccan feast for dinner at a local family home and discover the authentic flavors of this exciting cuisine.   Meet your guide who will take take you to visit the local market. Learn from him about the local produce you see as well as Moroccan traditions and customs. Feel free to ask your questions and share your culinary experiences.  Upon arrival to your host “Khadija’s Kuzina” in his traditional house, you will be welcomed with open arms and authentic Moroccan hospitality. Over the next few hours, Khadija & Hussein will teach you how to cook a tasty meal of local dishes. Cooking with Khadija is often a unique social experience. She will share stories about food, about her family, and about her life.  Once your culinary masterpieces are ready, you will savor the real taste of Moroccan family cooking, around a meal served with a lot of love.

Marrakech: Private Half-Day Cooking Class and Tour

4. Marrakech: Private Half-Day Cooking Class and Tour

Enjoy a convenient pick-up service from your hotel or accommodation, or any other location upon request. Then, you will be transferred to a traditional riad where you can learn more about Moroccan food culture and participate in a cooking class to learn how to prepare classic Moroccan dishes. Your knowledgeable chef will share the secrets of Moroccan cuisine, and you will experience the warm hospitality of the Berbers. You will have the opportunity to prepare your own chicken tagine with lemon and olives, or couscous with various vegetables, along with a selection of typical Moroccan salads and a delicious fruit-based dessert. After cooking, you can relax and enjoy the fruits of your labor with your cooking team in a friendly atmosphere. At the end of this amazing experience, you will be dropped off back at your hotel, feeling fulfilled and satisfied.

Marrakesh: Private Cooking Class & Local Market Shopping

5. Marrakesh: Private Cooking Class & Local Market Shopping

On this special journiey in Marrakech, be ready for the ultimate cooking experience. You'll learn how to make a tajine and shop fresh local products from popular Marrakech souks. What's the finest thing about it all? After you've finished making your tajine, you get to eat it! Stroll around the streets with the locals while selecting the meats, veggies, herbs, and spices that make up Moroccan cuisine. Discover how spices are used and how they have been imported to Morocco for thousands of years. Discover locally cultivated items like Taliouine saffron, Meknes mint and olives, and Fez oranges and lemons. A skilled chef will then teach you how to produce classic meals during your hands-on cooking workshop.

Marrakech: 3-Hour Open-Air Moroccan Cooking Course

6. Marrakech: 3-Hour Open-Air Moroccan Cooking Course

Have you always dreamed of colorful markets, unfamiliar eastern spices, and preparing a simple but exquisite tagine with the freshest ingredients? Then you will be elated with this cooking course. You'll be picked up in lively Jemaa El Fna and driven to Riad by one of our employees. There, the lead chef will be waiting for you with the ingredients prepared. In the kitchen courtyard, you'll work under artful instruction, cooking an exquisite 4-course meal using traditional recipes and a small clay, coal-burning oven. While your tagine cooks over the fire, you'll prepare a selection of Moroccan salads that serve as the prelude to every Moroccan meal. At the end, dessert will be served. Enjoy a good Moroccan wine with your own authentic meal, and linger after your cooking adventure for mint tea and fresh pastries. Moroccan cuisine uses only regional, seasonal products and provides a wonderful balance of sweet and salty dishes; it makes use of original ingredients like rose water and pickled lemons. Your cooking course can be tailored to your wishes. For those who want to learn a little bit about shopping in Morocco, an optional visit to an authentic Moroccan bazaar is just the thing. The market visit will be followed by a tea ceremony and a snack.

Marrakech: Cooking class in Marrakech with local family

7. Marrakech: Cooking class in Marrakech with local family

Experience the cooking class in Marrakech with a knowledgeable local instructor. See local familly in the city and find some new approach to local gastronomy. Be welcomed by a local familly in Marrakech and feel as a new guest so as to spend some lovelytime with them. Assist mint tea preparation in front of your eyes and listen to some stories the familly will share. You will afterwards taste the moroccan spices you will use during the food preparation. You will be devised into small groups so that every group can choose one meal to cook. Once your meals are cooking, you will have chance to talk to the familly ladies and try the Henna hand decoration. After the meals are ready, you will start your lunch and share the dish tasting. The meals will end by a season fruit dessert. You will be back to your hotel once the meal is done.

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What people are saying about Marrakech-Safi

Overall rating

4.7 / 5

based on 316 reviews

Couldn’t recommend this any more! Brilliant! We were met at the location and we all went straight to the market to pick up the ingredients. Everyone was included and able to contribute and during the cooking class you were both given brief demonstrations as well as all given tasks throughout to help make the dishes. It was very interactive. They tasted amazing too! We got the chance to buy some of the spices at the end to try to recreate the dishes at home (not charging much at all). We got a bag with the mix of 26 different spices! Can’t wait to give it a go when we get home!

Splendid host with a sense of humour. All questions answered clearly, good explanation of each stage of the purchasing, preparation and cooking stages. The product was enjoyed by all. Thoroughly recommend this experience.

This excursion was so fun. The hosts were amazing and lovely welcoming. The house was very homey, and we learned so much about the cuisine, and how to make these dishes at home! I highly recommend.

Definitely worth doing the class. Plenty of tips and also great recipes emailed after the class.

For the very first time in Marrakesh this was the grates experience ever!