Marrakech: Moroccan Cooking Class, from Tagine to Mint Tea
Learn to cook a tagine, Moroccan salads and mint tea with a local cook in Marrakech, then sit down to eat what you made.
The best souvenir from Marrakech is one you can make at home: in a few hours a local cook shows you how to prepare a tagine, Moroccan salads and the ritual of mint tea.
Brief Itinerary
- Meet your cook
- Spices and ingredients explained
- Cook a tagine and salads
- Mint tea ceremony
- Lunch or dinner: you eat what you cooked
Detailed Itinerary
Moroccan cooking class
You meet your cook in Marrakech and start with the spices of Moroccan cooking: cumin, ras el hanout, saffron, preserved lemons.
Step by step you prepare a tagine and a few cooked salads, learn how to make the dough for Moroccan bread, and how to pour mint tea from high above the glass.
The class ends at the table, where you eat the meal you cooked. You leave with the recipes.
What's Included & Excluded
Included
- The cooking class with a local cook
- All ingredients
- The meal you cook, with mint tea
- Recipes to take home
Not included
- Transport to the class (available on request)
- Tips
Good to know
- Duration: about 3 to 4 hours
- Morning or afternoon sessions
- Tell us about vegetarian diets or allergies when you book
- Private classes are possible for families and groups
How to book
Send us your date, your hotel or riad and the number of travelers on WhatsApp or with the quote form. We reply within 24 hours with a fixed price for your group and the exact list of what is included. No payment is needed to ask for a quote.
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