What better way to learn about the life of an Italian than to visit a traditional marketplace and cook authentic Italian food. This Italian cooking workshop experience is ideal for everyone who wants to learn how to cook like a true Sicilian, especially parents with children of all ages! Sicily has some of the most iconic recipes in Italy, containing influences, not only from all over Europe but even Africa.
First, you will visit a traditional market and have the opportunity to taste and buy any of the delicious, fresh ingredients on offer and even bring them home with you. Your guide will give you tips and recommendations on the huge selection of delicacies on offer and hopefully you’ll be able to try something which you have never tasted before. By the end your knowledge of Italian food will have increased hugely.
Then we’ll move on to the main event; the cooking! Our local chef will teach you step by step how to indulge yourselves in preparing some of Sicily’s most famous dishes! Everyone can get involved in this cooking workshop and by the end you’ll have a few more recipes in your arsenal. You’ll even get the opportunity to make a delicious dessert or ‘dolce’!
Anyone, from an experienced chef to a casual cook will learn a lot during this experience and for the less skilled cooks our professional chef will help you every step of the way and you’ll be surprised at how much you have learned by the end. Our professional chef uses his love and passion for cooking to teach to you the art of how to prepare delicious Italian dishes, with nothing less than fresh, authentic Italian ingredients. After your cooking workshop, you will not just have learned how to prepare a few Italian meals but you will also have made a friend in our Chef.
In this short workshop you’ll have been able to buy fresh ingredients from the local market, leaned to cook like a true Sicilian and, for the adults, you will have tries some delicious Italian liqueur. Not only this but you’ll have learned an invaluable skill which you’ll remember for the rest of your life and which will impress your friends at home!
Market in Ortigia
Half Day
AM or PM
What better way to learn about the life of an Italian than to visit a traditional marketplace and cook authentic Italian food. This Italian cooking workshop experience is ideal for everyone who wants to learn how to cook like a true Sicilian, especially parents with children of all ages! Sicily has some of the most iconic recipes in Italy, containing influences, not only from all over Europe, but even Africa.
Ortiga Market