Nia Bali Seminyak Cooking Class

About this tour

Master twelve Balinese dishes in a single morning at Nia's Seminyak kitchen. You'll start with a guided tour of the local wet market to source ingredients, sip tea, then spend four hours learning to make everything from satay to spice pastes using traditional methods and utensils. Cook alongside other travellers, eat what you've made for lunch, and leave with a certificate and cookbook to recreate these recipes at home.

Highlights

• Wet market sourcing trip with local guide
• Twelve dishes including satay, satay lilit, ayam betutu
• Learn three signature spice pastes from scratch
• Cook in small group, eat together at lunch
• Take home cookbook and completion certificate
• Morning tea ritual before class starts
• Traditional banana-leaf wrapping techniques

What to expect

You'll be picked up in Seminyak at 8 AM and taken to the morning market where your instructor shows you how locals shop for spices, proteins and vegetables. Back at the kitchen, you'll brew tea and begin hands-on cooking. Expect to chop, grind pastes with mortar and pestle, and work the stove. Each dish teaches you something—wrapping chicken in banana leaves, balancing the heat and sweetness of satay sauce, layering flavours in minced seafood preparations. By late morning, your station smells of turmeric, galangal and coconut. Lunch is shared with the group, tasting everything you've cooked.

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