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Cooking Class & Market Tour in Cuenca: Discover Local Cuisine with Organic Products
Discover our regional dishes and naturally grown products. We’ll tour and buy a few things at the ‘10 de Agosto market’ in our locality. After that, we’ll move to a residential home and start preparing our dinner!
Discover our regional dishes and naturally grown products. We’ll tour and buy a few things at the ‘10 de Agosto market’ in our locality. After that, we’ll move to a residential home and start preparing our dinner!
Duration:
4 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- General Torres 5-14 - The Ecuadorian cuisine and it’s many different flavors and mix of ingredients is the main reason we have opted to offer you a great learning experience. Although its gastronomy is considered to be one of the most forgotten of South America the country has nothing to envy Peru which one of the most recognized cuisines in the…
- General Torres 5-14 - The Ecuadorian cuisine and it’s many different flavors and mix of ingredients is the main reason we have opted to offer you a great learning experience. Although its gastronomy is considered to be one of the most forgotten of South America the country has nothing to envy Peru which one of the most recognized cuisines in the world.
Our first duty is to visit the “10 de Agosto” local market to handpick the ingredients that will be needed for our lunch. There’s nothing better than handpicking ingredients which are commercialized by the local farmers and vendors of the region. This will give an added flavor to our home-cooked meal! We will now proceed to visit a welcoming local family that will invite us to their kitchen where we will begin our class. The chef will lead you to step by step into making our meal into perfection. Whether it’s a \
What's Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Tour Guide/Driver
- All taxes, fees and handling charges included
- Market tour
- All cooking ingredients provided
- Lunch included
- Tea and coffee served
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Tour Guide/Driver
- All taxes, fees and handling charges included
- Market tour
- All cooking ingredients provided
- Lunch included
- Tea and coffee served
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Gratuities
Meal Options
- Locro de papas - The most typical soup of the Ecuadorian highlands made with potatoes, cheese, and avocado.
- Quinoa Soup - One of the very important indigenous foods made with quinoa, cheese, milk, onions, garlic.
- Empanadas de Viento - Fried cheese empanadas until crispy and served sprinkled with sugar.
- Seco de Pollo - Chicken slowly stew cooking…
- Locro de papas - The most typical soup of the Ecuadorian highlands made with potatoes, cheese, and avocado.
- Quinoa Soup - One of the very important indigenous foods made with quinoa, cheese, milk, onions, garlic.
- Empanadas de Viento - Fried cheese empanadas until crispy and served sprinkled with sugar.
- Seco de Pollo - Chicken slowly stew cooking in a sauce of onions, garlic, peppers, tomatoes, herbs, and spices.
- Fritada - Fried until crisp cubes of pork served with Llapingachos (grilled mashed potatoes), corn, and salad.
- Vegetarian and Vegan options - Available under request.
Additional Information
- Vegetarian or Vegan option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- Vegetarian or Vegan option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Jungunl2024
Aug 26, 2024
Opportunity to learn the southern home style of Ecuador - The one who gave me the Guide, Louise, had a deep knowledge of the cupcakes, and the one who led the classes, Monsen, taught me her own home cooking recipe. Personally, it was a very interesting time and I would recommend it to other Koreans. You can go to Korea and have a lot of fun using familiar ingredients that you can eat personally.
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Daydream65807978402
Jul 25, 2024
Best cooking class! - Monse and Wilson were Top-rated! The cooking class was spectacular. Wilson took us to the market where we could choose the ingredients for the recipe we were going to prepare, and then Monse explained how the dishes were made and some other details. We highly recommend it and would definitely do it again!
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Rolo60647
Jul 24, 2024
10/10 No notes - We had an amazing experience! It was wonderful to visit the market and then prepare our meal. It was honestly the best meal we have had in Ecuador. We loved everything!
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Kayandtomk
Jun 2, 2024
Pass the Aji, please! - I made this reservation not knowing what to expect.Boy am I glad I did. It ended up being one of the highlights of our time in Cuenca.
Our guide, Adrian shared his extensive knowledge about Ecuadorian foods and cuisine enthusiastically.
Montserrat was a charismatic hostess and a born teacher.
We loved the simplicity and wholesomeness of the Ecuadoran food and will be making Aji, a bright and fresh, hot sauce, the rest of our lives!
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936cathleenb
May 19, 2024
Perfect place to visit - Beautiful historic city. Amazing mountains. Lots of good restaurants. Lots of things to see in and near the city. I suggest IngaPirca, Chardoleg, the hat factory and museum and the 10 de agusto market in Cuenca.
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Timothy_l
Apr 14, 2024
Authentic taste of Ecuador - Wilson was our guide, he picked us up at our apartment right on time. He took us to a local market to buy the ingredients and also told us about all the different exotic and local fruits. We then went to his aunts house which was very nice in a gated community. Wilson did all the translating and reall made us feel very comfortable, even learned a new way to chop an onion!
Lunch was very good and the fruit drink exceptional. Wilson is a fantastic guide would recommend to anyone coming to Ecuador.
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Deedavis_o
Nov 24, 2023
Fabulous! - Fabulous tour. Highly recommended. We had a lovely morning in the market learning about Ecuadorian food and ingredients. Then with the help of Alexandra, we helped to prepare a marvelous meal. Absolutely wonderful!
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F389sofannyc
Oct 25, 2023
Amazing culinary experience - This experience was amazing. We had such a good time with Javier and his wife. We learnt a lot about Ecuador and its cuisine. I can only recommande it !
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69lynnz
Sep 27, 2023
Good food, good learning, good people - We spent a lovely 4 hours with Flavia and her aunt, exploring a local market, buying ingredients, and preparing and eating a tasty and generous lunch of pollo seco and rice with all the typical accompaniments. Both have a wealth of knowledge about local recipes and ingredients and enthusiastically shared their tips and “secrets”. Be sure to ask Flavia’s aunt for her “green garlic” seasoning hack!
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Del35601
Sep 18, 2023
Perfect start to buying in the market and cooking a cross section of Ecuadorian meals! - We absolutely loved the market shopping, participating in cooking locro de papas (potato soup), seco de pollo (chicken), rice, and several accompanying dishes. And we had the choice of English or Spanish which we loved because we wanted to practice Spanish. We learned so much about the city and culture as well from our guide and the cooking instructor, in whose home the class was hosted. We highly recommend this experience!
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