Gourmet Hands on Cooking Class in Galicia with the Chef

About this tour

Roll up your sleeves for three hours in a Galician kitchen where you'll cook alongside a chef steeped in family tradition. You'll prepare and eat a full lunch of Galician seafood classics—tuna empanada, clams with codium seaweed, mussels, seafood rice—then finish with Santiago cake. Local wines paired throughout. Walk away with recipes and the muscle memory of dishes passed down through generations, not tourist versions.

Highlights

• Cook tuna empanada, clams, mussels from scratch with the chef
• Taste hyperlocal seafood sourced directly from Galician waters
• Three-course lunch you've prepared, paired with regional wines
• Learn family recipes and traditional cooking techniques
• Hands-on instruction in an intimate, working kitchen

What to expect

You'll arrive at the kitchen and begin with local cheese and wine while the chef outlines the menu. Then it's aprons on: she'll walk you through prep and cooking of each dish, explaining why she sources ingredients the way she does and how her grandmother made them. You're not watching—you're doing the knife work, managing heat, tasting as you go. Lunch happens mid-class; you eat what you've cooked, seated together. The final hour covers dessert and she'll hand over written recipes to take home.

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