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