3 Hour Moroccan Cooking Class

Join a 3-hour Moroccan cooking class in Marrakech. Learn to cook authentic dishes, enjoy a tea ceremony, and support women’s empowerment.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Amal Cooking Classes & Catering - Targa - Experience the rich flavors and vibrant culture of Morocco with our authentic Cooking Class. Join our expert instructors for a hands-on, 3-hour cooking session where you will learn to prepare a traditional Moroccan dish of your choosing.
    Amal is a non-profit training center dedicated to empowering women through culinary training, and when you join us for the Cooking Class, you are supporting this vital mission.
    We can’t wait to host you, we put our heart and soul into making this unforgettable culinary experience!
What's Included
  • Lunch
  • Tea and coffee
  • Bottled water
Meal Options
  • Chicken tajine with preserved lemon - A classic tajine with a satisfying lemon zing!
  • Beef tajine with prunes and almonds - Sweet, sticky prunes and crunchy deep fried almonds complement the savory beef cooked in a delicious sauce.
Additional Information

Your hosts at the Amal Center will help you recreate authentic Moroccan dishes cooked the traditional way. Choose from a variety of favorite tajines including chicken with preserved lemon, beef or lamb with prunes and almonds, fish or vegetarian. You can even make sophisticated chicken pastilla or couscous for a small extra fee. The best part - besides the amazing food - is that you are helping support a valuable non-profit cause: empowering women from disadvantaged backgrounds through culinary training and job placement. Our cooking class setting is one-of-a-kind, with a dedicated workshop in our beautiful, peaceful garden, an oasis of peace in a busy city! During the class, while our tajines simmer over charcoal, we’ll have a traditional Moroccan tea ceremony. It is a chance to be together and talk about the work Amal has been doing over the last 11 years to empower women and serve the community.

  • Please select a tajine you’d like to make
Location
Amal Cooking Classes & Catering - Targa
All classes are held at our Amal Targa location. Take a taxi and ask for "Association Amal" in the Targa neighborhood.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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588anniee
Jul 20, 2024
The Best Experience ❤️ - What a wonderful, wonderful day I had. I ended up being the only client of the day which made it super special in every way. We joked I'd never had so many people watching me peel a potato. All of the staff were so welcoming. I felt like I'd known them forever. The cooking itself was great. Fun! The conversation was just fabulous to have breakfast with everyone was an absolute honour drinking tea together. All dressed up. Talking about our family lives was a really beautiful moment. There was laughter and there was tears. This was profoundly the most perfect day I've ever had in Morocco. I cannot wait to go back and to see everybody. It was an absolute Joy from start to finish and I was genuinely sad to leave. Great to have the recipes sent to me afterwards so I can get cooking at home. So much love to all and thank you again!. I would highly recommend everybody takes part in this as one of your experiences in Marrakech not only here at the cookery school but also pop along to the restaurant as well. The food is amazing, you won't regret it. ❣️ 💫 شكرًا لك
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Mariaic6559md
Jul 13, 2024
Best experience in Morocco - This cooking class has to be my highlight of my trip to Morocco. With all the staff there being very friendly and answering all your questions. This was not just a cooking class but a way to get to know some lovely locals and hear about their life. I'm very grateful for this experience. Doing this class is also a way to support a more sustainable tourism in Morocco. The food we made was amazing as well:) Thank you to everyone who made this such a wonderful experience!
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Marydo8727wd
Jul 9, 2024
Don’t miss this experience! - We had an amazing time attending this cooking class! The staff at Amal led us through making several different types of tagine as well as explaining the process of making mint tea and the mission of their organization. The grounds were lovely and peaceful. Best of all, the food was delicious! This experience is a must for Marrakesh travelers.
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Valencialee
Jun 1, 2024
Moroccan Cooking Class - Our group had a wonderful cooking experience! The ladies were all very helpful and the class was informative and delicious. Love that this facility is teaching these women to be able to support themselves. Loved the gardens and the small pottery we bought thank you Amal!
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755katied
May 13, 2024
Wonderful & humbling experience with amazing food! - An exceptionally well organised & informative few hours cooking, with wonderful students and teachers, full of smiles helping us have fun while producing some delicious food along with supporting and learning about AMAL which is a fantastic non profit. One of the absolute high points of our 5 days in Marrakesh!!
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630saskiaf
May 13, 2024
Cooking class with Amal - My colleague and I caught wind of Amal a while back as we run a very similar non-profit social enterprise in Bristol called Houria. We reached out to Nora (the founder) and arranged a time to visit Amal and participate in the cooking class. Amal is an inspirational origanisation and we loved every second of being there! We shared stories, laughed, cried, cooked, and ate delicious food during our visit. The women at Amal were fantastic and the attention to detail during the day was perfect. I would HIGHLY recommend paying a visit to Amal. They are a true inspiration!
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Wander29951836069
May 11, 2024
Wonderful cooking class in a very beautiful and well-kept facility - I can recommend this cooking course to everyone. It was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed the food. The tea ceremony was informative and interesting. I felt very comfortable and would like to thank the young women who led the course so cheerfully. It's great that the Amal organization looks after young women and gives them the chance to lead self-determined lives. This way, everyone can benefit from each other. That's sustainable support!
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Coogi116
May 11, 2024
Wonderful cause; Wonderful experience; Delicious results! - In addition to being a worthy cause, this was one of, if not THE BEST cooking class we've experienced. Absolutely wonderful people and we learned a lot!
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Limak2024
May 9, 2024
Very nice cooking experience filled with many memorable experiences - Everyone was very kind helpful and receptive. I hope i can come back soon and I really strongly recommend trying this cooking class.
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Rainbow_chaser75
Jul 1, 2024
Great idea...but needs some fine tuning - The setting for this class is quite a way out of town but a wonderful chance to escape the noise and bustle of the city. The gardens are lovely. The cooking class was hands on and fun but badly organised. Rhita (whose English is excellent) left us for a "20 minute" break which ended up being almost an hour, on our own with no communication and no water. Everyone just disappeared leaving us sitting around with no idea what was going on. We eventually had to go and ask for some water as it was a hot day. We were not advised at the time we had to pay for it (not expensive and happy to pay but should have been told). During the whole class an American assistant lay about chatting on her phone outside which wasn't very professional. The ladies doing the cooking were wonderful and the pastilla recipe very tasty. We were told the recipes would be emailed to us the Saturday following the class but we didn't get them until well over a week later because they failed to send them before the national holiday, despite my emailing to chase before EID started. All in all, I would recommend the experience and the foundation which does wonderful work, but the class itself needs to be fine-tuned to be more professional and the staff running the courses need more training. We did other cooking classes on the same trip which made this one look very amateur (though food excellent).
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