Sri Lanka · Cooking

5-Hour Colombo Cooking Class and Market Tour with Family Recipes

5 Hours Round trip from Colombo Easy pace

Shopping for Ingredients in Colombo Local Markets

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The journey

Trip highlights

01 Explore a local Colombo market and identify Sri Lankan spices, vegetables, and fruits
02 Cook a mostly five-course family recipe menu with close guidance from an expert Sri Lankan chef
03 Use traditional methods, tools, and clay pots while learning local cooking techniques
04 Enjoy an authentic cooking class in a local house and discover local dining etiquette
05 Learn to recreate Sri Lankan dishes at home for your family and friends

Roam the local markets of Colombo and discover fresh ingredients, including many with medicinal qualities. Prepare authentic Sri Lankan dishes with your host family using traditional methods, tools, and spices in a local home setting. This hands-on experience offers insight into local food culture, dining etiquette, and everyday life while helping you build new cooking skills to recreate Sri Lankan food at home.

Roam the local markets of Colombo and discover fresh ingredients, including many with medicinal qualities.

From the itinerary

At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 5 Hours

Tour type Shared

Activity level Easy

Accommodation Not included

Transport Not included

Wheelchair access Not applicable

City Colombo

Languages English

Day by day

The itinerary

Day 01

Colombo Market Visit and Sri Lankan Cooking Class

Get to know the local way of life while identifying local spices, vegetables, fruits, and more in the local market.
Clean, cut, and chop vegetables, then mix them with spices and cook them yourself with the close guidance of our expert Sri Lankan chef.
Gain hands-on experience with cooking methods, traditional tools, and techniques, use spices, and learn about a typical local diet.
Enjoy a valuable experience that will help you cook Sri Lankan food at home for your family and friends. Cook in clay pots, which have many benefits that you will learn about during the class.
Enjoy an authentic cooking class in a local house, where you can enrich your experience with traditional equipment and tools while learning about local dining etiquette and the serving of food.

Where this trip takes you

Colombo Market, Sri Lankan spices, clay pots, local house

The route

Where you'll travel

Tour route map — Round trip from Colombo 1 city · 5 Hours

The fine print

Trip details

What's Included

About the menu: Before starting the local market visit, you will get the chance to select a menu and prepare our family recipes. Mostly, it is a five-course meal.
- Dishes: Yellow Rice
- Sri Lankan traditional curries: Jackfruit Curry, Dhal Curry, Coconut Sambol, Lotus Root Curry, and Fried Mushroom
- Choose one mallum (leafy salad): Gotukola, Mugunuanna, Kankun Mallum, and Aguna Kola Mallum
- Enhancers: Papadum
- Dessert: Super tasty Buffalo curd with Treacle and Tropical Fruits
- Beverages: Taste a local beer, Mineral Water, and Tea/Coffee

Know before you go

Start time: Daily at 8:30 am or 2:30 pm
Duration: 4.5 hours
Group size: 1 to 8
Class language: English
About the location: The house is located in the capital of Sri Lanka, in the green belt of Colombo, only 9 km from the city centre and at the exit of the expressway to Colombo Airport.
Lots of people like to go vegan these days, but there are limited options available in Sri Lanka. Hence, there is a vegan tour to benefit them.

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