Uluwatu Balinese Cooking Class & Market Tour with Free Pick Up

About this tour

Learn to cook Balinese classics during a three-hour session combining market exploration and hands-on kitchen work in Bali. You'll source ingredients at a local market, understand how staples like galangal and turmeric feature in traditional cooking, then prepare between eight and nine dishes under guidance from a practising local chef. Includes lunch, a recipe book to take home, and free pickup from Uluwatu, Seminyak, Kuta, Jimbaran, Nusa Dua, Sanur or Denpasar.

Highlights

• Select and buy fresh spices at a working Balinese market
• Grind Base Genep spice paste by hand using traditional methods
• Cook eight to nine dishes depending on menu choice
• Eat what you've prepared alongside local drinks
• Take home a recipe book for future cooking
• Learn how food connects to Balinese spirituality and daily life

What to expect

After pickup from your accommodation, you'll head to a local market where the chef points out ingredients—fresh turmeric, lemongrass, candle nuts, kaffir lime leaves—and explains their roles in Balinese cooking. Back at the kitchen space, you'll work through preparation and cooking stations, handling paste-making, chopping, and cooking over heat. The chef guides but doesn't do the work for you. By mid-morning you'll sit down to eat the dishes you've cooked, usually with fresh juice or coffee. Expect to get your hands dirty and leave with a working understanding of several core recipes.

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