Marrakesh cooking class with chef Hassan - Local dishes
Description
Join our cooking class and enjoy a unique experience while visiting Marrakech. This 4-hour experience will not only improve your cooking skills but also teach you more about Moroccan culinary traditions and history. Before the cooking starts, we will have a tour of a local market to buy the vegetables and all the ingredients we need to cook. Afterwards, we will have a fresh mint tea while we get to know each other. The next step is to start the cooking process, where travelers learn new techniques for peeling, chopping, and seasoning the tagines with the right spices, as our grandmothers and mothers do at home. While we are cooking, we will talk in depth about Moroccan cultures, traditions, and history. Travelers will work together as one team to make different dishes, and this helps them learn more dishes than just one specific dish by using different spices and Ras El Hanout. At the end, it is time to taste and eat what you have cooked.
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- We cook also vegan and vegetarian food
- We share recipes at the end of the class
- Do not worry about finding us, we will text you once we receive your booking
- Group size is maximum 10 people (might be 11 only if we have an overbooking or for private groups)
- Air-conditioned cooking area
- Please contact us before booking if you're 1 person, as we require a minimum of two participants we need to check if we have other participants for that day or not.
- To ensure a pleasant experience for all guests, we kindly ask that children under 7, including babies, not attend. Thank you for understanding!
- It is recommended for women with long hair to bring a hairband.
- Air-conditioned cooking and eating area
- Photos are allowed during the cooking class and for vegetables at the market only; please avoid photographing other shops or people.
- Please do not enter the pharmacy at the meeting point. Kindly wait outside
- Not suitable for people with onion or garlic allergies
Reviews(549)
Reality exceeds expectations. The group experience is truly engaging and you will be able to take home various insights to use once you return. A point of merit for the wise use of spices. Everything is exquisite! Well done!
Ahmed and Hassan were great and gave us plenty of culinary advice and tips, thanks to them.
Moroccan delights, friendliness, sharing, and good humor were present at this exceptional culinary workshop, and what a satisfaction it is to admire but especially to taste our colorful and flavorful recipes! 😋 Our hosts are friendly, welcoming, and enthusiastic. They share their experience and expertise without reservation, with smiles, generosity, and compliments from the chef! 😉 We leave happy, satisfied, and full, with memories in our heads and tagines in our eyes! 🤩 To do and redo...
I participated in this cooking class with my daughter as part of a great group of 6 people, and it was one of the highlights of our vacation! We started with a complete immersion by going to the market together with Chef Hassan to choose and buy our fresh ingredients. It was an excellent introduction, very authentic. A warm and friendly atmosphere where everyone actively participated. Hassan is a pedagogical chef, generous and very kind. Together, we prepared a true feast: a chicken tagine with olives and preserved lemon; a vegetarian tagine; a kefta with eggs; and two typical appetizers. Special mention for the perfect introduction to the traditional preparation of mint tea, a fascinating learning moment. We then shared and tasted all the dishes we prepared together... A pure delight for the taste buds! An essential activity in Marrakech if you want to take home a piece of Moroccan know-how. A huge thank you to Hassan for this wonderful moment!
Best cooking class ever. Market visit was short, only one stop to buy vegetables. But the cooking experience was fun! And the food was DELICIOUS. Better than restaurants we've tried. Beef tajine was unforgettable! Still waiting for them to send the recipes though :)
Great experience, fabulous food!
Really great class, very good atmosphere, and many recipes made; we had an excellent time! We warmly recommend it.
Chefs Ahmed & Hassan made the whole experience fantastic for the whole family. They engaged the kids really well, encouraging them to try preparing and cooking everything the adults did, and gently pushing them to try foods we can’t manage to get them to eat at home (a big part of why we wanted to have this experience). With 4 different main dishes and 2 side dishes, there was something for everyone, and the food was beautiful. Their English and French are excellent, air conditioning effective, water dispenser cool and refreshing, chat entertaining, and venue spotless. I’d really recommend this as a fun family experience, though the others on the course were either singles or couples and they seemed to really enjoy themselves also.
Hassan and his colleague are very welcoming! The cooking class was enjoyable, fun, and cooperative. At the beginning, a quick tour of the local market, where there are few tourists, then it’s off to the kitchen with plenty of explanations (about tea and all the Moroccan specialties). I recommend it
I took my best friend to this cooking class for her birthday while we were in Marrakech, and it was honestly one of the highlights of our trip! The hosts were incredibly welcoming, friendly, and knowledgeable, and the whole experience felt authentic from start to finish. We cooked six different tagines, learned so much about Moroccan cooking, and had such a fun time throughout the class. It was also wonderful meeting other people in the class, and the teamwork throughout the experience created such a lovely way to connect with strangers. The food was absolutely amazing without doubt the best meal I had in Marrakech. Everything was fresh, flavourful, and made even more special by being able to cook it ourselves. I would highly recommend this experience to anyone visiting Marrakech. Whether you love cooking or just want a unique and memorable activity, this is a must-do!
