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Relish The Cretan Cuisine On This 4-Hour Tour In Rethimno
  • Tour Category

    Private Tour

  • Tour Types

    Food and Drink, Cooking, Eco Tourism

  • Duration

    4 Hours

  • Activity Level

    Easy

  • Language

    English

Description

Participate in the Cretan traditional cooking lessons hosted in your guide's home. A small, traditional village close to the town of Rethimno, where they have been cooking for many years. Learn the family secrets of Cretan cuisine on this tour.

Highlights
  • Prepare Cretan dishes with local ingredients

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    • Enter the garden where your Rethimno guide cultivates organic vegetables and fruits. They even produce their olive oil.

    • Collect the seasonal greens, herbs, fruits, wild greens, fresh milk, fresh meat and, of course, the gold of Cretan land, the olive oil. 

    • Prepare dishes with the ingredients using recipes that have been passed down through generations. The menu can be modified for vegetarian guests.

What's Included
  • English-speaking Rethimnon tour guide

Cooking Lesson:

  • Aperitif (Cretan welcome)

  • Raki or Greek Coffee (Raki is a famous local drink)

  • Cheese pies (Small pies with homemade cheese and honey (kalitsounia)

During the lesson:

  • Kremidokalitsouna: Small pies with onions

  • Chortopites: Small pies with many (10-12) different wild greens

  • Sfakianes Pies: Pies with homemade cheese. Sfakia speciality (You will prepare it together)

Appetizer:

  • Homemade cheese with fresh milk from sheep and goats (will prepare it together)

  • Tzatziki: Strained yoghurt, cucumber, garlic and olive oil (will prepare it together)

  • Greek salad with homemade barley rusk, tomatoes, cucumber, green pepper, onion, caper, kritamo, olives and enough olive oil.

  • Pepper stuffed with feta, homemade cheese, and kefalotiri baked in the wood oven

  • Dolmadakia: Stuffed vine leaves, and zucchini flowers with rice, vegetables, herbs and olive oil (will prepare it together)

  • Keftedakia: Fried meatballs (will prepare them together)

Main Dishes:

  • Moussaka: The famous Greek dish (potatoes, zucchini, aubergines, minced meat in tomatoes sauce, and béchamel) in the wood oven (will prepare it together)

  • Giouvetsi: Rooster with orzo in the wood oven (traditional Sunday dish)

  • All these are accompanied by plenty of homemade wine

Dessert:

  • Greek Yogurt or Homemade Ice Cream with Sweet Spoon

  • Strained yoghurt or homemade ice cream with homemade fruit-sweet

  • Raki - Homemade Liqueur - Fresh Seasonal Fruit

Drinks & Beverages:

  • Red Wine

  • White Wine 

  • Digestif

What's Excluded
  • Pick-up and drop-off

  • Tips

Know before you go
  • Inform the guide about where your pick-up location is, and they will provide you with the best possible price for your pick-up and drop-off.

Meeting Point

Rethimnon, Greece

Cancellation Policy

For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -

Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price Details
Adult
1 To 2 EUR 75 Per Person
Child
1 To 2 EUR 55 Per Person

This is a private tour

Starting From

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USD 84 / person