Overview

Each guest gets to prepare a Sri Lankan meal guided by a Sri Lankan chef at their own cooking stations using their own ingredients (provided by the chef)

• Duration: 03 Hours
• Class Times: Lunch Class: 11.00 AM - 14.00 PM (including the meal), Dinner Class: 17.00 PM - 20.00 PM (including the meal)

Highlights

• Learn how to open coconuts (a key ingredient in Sri Lankan cuisine and recipes)
• Learn how to cook filling Sri Lankan meals
• Listen to urban and suburban tales of Colombo and Sri Lanka
• Receive printed recipes of all prepared meals

What's Included

• Sri Lankan Chef
• Own cooking stations and ingredients

What's Excluded

• Transportation from & to cooking space

Additional Note

Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability Comfortable walking shoes and hats recommended Adult pricing applies to all travelers. Please let us know if you have any specific dietary requirements so we can ensure these needs are taken care of.

Highlights

• Jaffna Cuisine Traditional Cooking Class
• Knowledgeable English speaking guide
• Homecooked Lunch or Dinner Included

You will be starting your cooking experience from a home down the 2nd Vinayagar Street in Chundukkuli. Your guide will meet you at a preplanned location there at either 11:00 am (for a lunchtime class) or 4:30 pm (for a dinnertime class), and take you to the home.

You will be introduced to the family and get to see the traditional kitchen tools that they use. There will be many fired clay pots of various sizes, palm trays, and wooden spoons. You will learn how to light the Jaffna-style mud and clay stove using firewood and dried wood flakes.

Your cuisine for the day will be Jaffna style mutton curry using good quality local farm produced mutton and Red Rice Flour Pittu - one of the staple foods of the region. You will learn to clean and cook the mutton with a variety of aromatic spices that take away the slightly gamey flavor that many people dislike. While the curry is cooking on a slow fire to make it tender and flavorful, you will learn to knead the red rice flour with water and chop it to make small even balls. You will then steam the raw pitta in a special ‘pittu maker’. This tool can be purchased in the Jaffna market if you want to try it at home. Your guide will tell you some of the shops where the best quality ones can be bought.

When the food is cooked you will sit to meal of thick tasty mutton curry with freshly steamed cylinders of pittu. You will be eating on banana leaves with your hands - the traditional way. After enjoying a wonderful meal, your tour will be completed by approximately 1:00 pm or 6:30 pm, depending on your start time.

Additional Note

• Comfortable Clothes and Shoes Recommended for this tour.

• Service of a knowledgeable English speaking guide.

• Home-cooked Lunch or Dinner.

• One Traditional Cooking Class Session.

What's Excluded

• Expenses of Personal Nature.

• Gratuities (Optional).

Highlights

• Sri Lankan Traditional Baking Workshop
• Includes delicious baked food and coffee/tea as refreshments
• With English Speaking Local Guide
• Meet-up with baker’s family
• Family-friendly/Child-Friendly
• Limited to 6 adults per booking (larger groups will need to be customized)

You will be starting your tour from the Main Private Bus Station of Panadura at 2:00 pm. A guide will come and pick you up. He will bring you to the local baker’s home, where a small home-based bakery is done. 

After being introduced to the baker, you will be taken around the bakery's back-end to see the various equipment. These will be different from the standard modern equipment nowadays, as the bakery uses a very traditional method. From mixing the dough to firing the clay oven, you will be taught the entire process. 
You will also get to learn of the various local and rare flours and other ingredients that are used in baking in Sri Lanka. Then you will get a chance to try your hand at firing the oven and learning to make your own bread with the guidance of the baker.

After finishing you will get to meet the baker's family and have tea or coffee with them. A number of delicious pastries and buns will accompany your beverages, as you have a relaxed chat with the family about the local traditions and their lives.

The experience will be completed at 5:00 pm when your guide will drop you off back at the Panadura Bus Stand.

Additional Note

• Comfortable Clothes and Shoes Recommended for this tour.

• Service of an English Speaking Guide.

• Delicious baked food and coffee or tea as refreshments.

• All Taxes & Service Charges.

What's Excluded

• Hotel Pick & Drop.
• Gratuities (Optional).

Highlights

• Availability -  All year round
• Preferred Starting Time - 10 a.m
• Duration - 2 to 3hrs

About Cookery Demonstrations

Our Cookery Demonstrations demonstrate Sri Lankan cuisine where you could learn and cook famous local dishes such as dhal (Sri Lankan lentil curry), Coconut Sambol, Chicken Curry or anything else you wish to learn by using the traditional clay pots and coconut spoons.

Firstly We introduce to the curries and how it is cooked while introducing all the ingredients and spaces. Although We offer experience cooking tips. Finally, you can enjoy the meal after cooking.

You could choose the dishes you love to eat and they are happy to serve it for you. Select your dish and reserve it with us with the number assigned!

Menu 1

Lemongrass/coriander infused Sri Lankan Black Chicken Curry
or
Black Fish Sour curry ( Ambulthiyal)
Beet Root Curry Hill Country Style
Jack Fruit Curry
Coconut Sambol

Menu 2

Ceylonese Chicken Curry
or
Jaffna Style Crab Curry or Prawn Curry
Snake Gourd Salad with Coconut
Tempered potatoes with onions and curry leaves
Coconut Sambol

Menu 3

Lemongrass infused Sri Lankan Chicken Curry
Ash Plantain and eggplant curry
Sri Lankan Dhal curry with coconut sauce
Stir-fried Cashew Nuts
Vegetable Salad

Menu 4

Sri Lankan Style Vegetable or Egg Fried Rice
Fried Ceylonese Chicken or Seafood infused with onion
Tempered Potato
Brinjal Pickle- served with homemade chili & tomato sauce

Vegetarian Meal

Sri Lankan Dhal curry with coconut sauce
Village Style Pumpkin Curry
Coconut Sambol
Ash Plantain Curry
Beetroot Curry

What's Included

• Lunch, Mango chutney & Papadam with Homemade Dessert 
• Water Bottles 
• Food required for the cooking class

What's Excluded

• Extra food and beverages consumed
• Any tips to the staff
• Any personal effects not mentioned here
• Any other expenses not mentioned in the ‘Price Inclusions’ section