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Punjabi Vegetarian Cooking Class and Traditional Market Tour in Mumbai
4.7
14 Ratings
Mumbai
Experience the vibrant flavors of Punjabi cuisine in a vegetarian cooking class and traditional market tour in Mumbai. Learn to make roti/paratha and traditional Punjabi dishes like paneer makhanwala and rajma, and enjoy a delicious meal with your host.
Experience the vibrant flavors of Punjabi cuisine in a vegetarian cooking class and traditional market tour in Mumbai. Learn to make roti/paratha and traditional Punjabi dishes like paneer makhanwala and rajma, and enjoy a delicious meal with your host.
Duration:
3 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Indu Villa - Experience a private cooking class and local grocery visit in the Matunga Five Gardens neighborhood of Mumbai. Start by meeting Shilpa at her home, then head to a nearby grocery store. Here, you’ll be introduced to local fruits, vegetables, spices, and grains. You may purchase a few ingredients before returning to Shilpa’s home for a…
- Indu Villa - Experience a private cooking class and local grocery visit in the Matunga Five Gardens neighborhood of Mumbai. Start by meeting Shilpa at her home, then head to a nearby grocery store. Here, you’ll be introduced to local fruits, vegetables, spices, and grains. You may purchase a few ingredients before returning to Shilpa’s home for a Punjabi cooking class. The market tour lasts 30 minutes. Learn to make roti or paratha (flatbread) in the traditional way during your Mumbai cooking class. Shilpa will also show you how to prepare paneer makhni (fresh cheese in tomato gravy) and dal (lentils), which you’ll enjoy with rice or Indian breads.
Please note that this is not a traditional market tour at an open market; it takes place in a covered grocery store where Mumbai locals shop for their daily produce.
What's Included
- Bottled water
- Alcoholic beverages
- Tea and coffee
- Private market tour and cooking class with your host Shilpa
- Bottled water
- Alcoholic beverages
- Tea and coffee
- Private market tour and cooking class with your host Shilpa
Meal Options
- Yellow dal tadka / dal fry /chana masala / rajma
- Achari aloo / aloo gobi
- Paneer makhani / palak paneer
- Roti / lachha paratha
- Yellow dal tadka / dal fry /chana masala / rajma
- Achari aloo / aloo gobi
- Paneer makhani / palak paneer
- Roti / lachha paratha
Additional Information
Meet Shilpa at her home in central Mumbai and drive to a nearby grocery store. Here, you’ll be introduced to local fruits, vegetables, spices, and grains. Return to your host’s home for a vegetarian Punjabi cooking class. Punjabi cuisine is renowned for its rich, creamy flavors. Learn to make roti or paratha (flatbread), a paneer-based dish (fresh…
Meet Shilpa at her home in central Mumbai and drive to a nearby grocery store. Here, you’ll be introduced to local fruits, vegetables, spices, and grains. Return to your host’s home for a vegetarian Punjabi cooking class. Punjabi cuisine is renowned for its rich, creamy flavors. Learn to make roti or paratha (flatbread), a paneer-based dish (fresh cheese in a tomato sauce), and dal (lentils).
- Guided 30-minute tour of a local grocery store to purchase fresh vegetables or spices
- Private Punjabi cooking class in a local Mumbai home
- Learn to cook 2-3 Indian dishes from scratch
- Introduction to Indian ingredients, food, and culinary traditions
- Shilpa is flexible with her timings
- She offers only vegetarian food and can also prepare a complete vegan meal upon request
- Menu is seasonal and subject to availability, if you wish to learn to cook something specific please reach out to Shilpa in advance
- Shilpa offers only vegetarian food and can also do a complete vegan meal, on request
- Shilpa is also flexible with her start time, so if you wish to start early or later, please inform her in advance via whatsapp.
- Please inform her in advance if you have any preferences, dietary restrictions or allergies
- Please note that this is not your traditional market tour at an open market; this market tour is of a covered grocery store where Mumbai locals shop for produce on a daily basis.
Location
Indu Villa
Lady Jehangir Road
​Meet your host Shilpa at her home which is located opposite Dr. Karnik clinic, near Narvekar hospital in Matunga Five gardens. Exact address details can be found in your ticket in the "Before you go" section.
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
4.7
(14 Ratings)
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526teresa
Feb 27, 2025
This was a lovely experience whilst visiting Mumbai! - If you would like an insight into local Indian cooking then this cooking class is a great thing todo.
A warm welcome from Shilpa, in her home in Mumbai. We observed some prep work using a pressure cooker which highlighted its benefits and ease of use. We visited a local market/supermarket where Shilpa pointed out local produce throughout the store explaining how it would be enjoyed, which was interesting. Wholesale fresh markets obviously open very early therefore not suitable for visiting when our class was for 10am. We then started the cooking, both observing and taking part, and drank a healthy digestive aid which was nice. We cooked several dishes and later enjoyed eating these. They tasted amazing! I am gluten free and this was no problem at all. Nutritional tips of healthy eating were given throughout. Finally we tried an interesting dessert made from carrots and pistachios which was very tasty. It would have been nice to have spend the remainder of our time learning how to cook this. We would recommend taking time out and meeting Shilpa and attending her class.
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Fearless535817
Feb 26, 2025
Beautiful experience - Shilpa is a wonderful host that allowed us to prepare and experience home-made Indian cuisine and get a taste of the local culture… Definitely recommend it!
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Mobile823313
Dec 19, 2024
3 hour cooking class from ex chef! - Very lovely lady and talented cook. The food was simple and delicious. We were taken around the local grocery store and given a thorough education on the local foods. Then back for cooking. Really good! Highly recommended!
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Brittaa2018
Nov 12, 2023
Great! - Great experience for me and my foodie friends. Market visit was informative and cooking was great. Thank you Shilpa!
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Marloesvanboxtel
Oct 8, 2023
Good food experience - Wonderful experience. Very nice to see how you can cook a proper indian meal. With the recipes i think we can make this at home!
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Paul_b
May 5, 2023
Wonderful class with a wonderful teacher - Fantastic cooking class with Shilpa! Really great experience learning the basics of some simple Indian dishes and roti that were quick to put together but had wonderfully different flavors. She explained everything the was doing and the reasoning behind it all. I can't recommend her class enough to those looking to get into Indian cooking.
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Deborah_g
Oct 12, 2022
Real Indian Family experience - Shilpa was so welcoming made you feel like part of her family The food was beautiful so tasty the trip to the market was great would highly recommend this for anyone one wanting traditional Indian family experience
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Amandapowers0206
Jun 26, 2022
Authentic Indian cooking experience - Shilpa was so kind to welcome us into her home and give us an authentic Indian cooking experience. She walked us through every recipe, step by step and showed us how to cook the meals properly. Afterwards, she took the time to go through all the written recipes with us and took us to the market to make sure we had all the ingredients and knew what to do/practice when we’re back home. I would highly recommend to anyone interested in learning how to prepare Indian dishes in a healthy, authentic way with a great host
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Katielz1575ix
Feb 11, 2024
Great Class - Very informative and a great class! The recipes I learned have been staples in my house since the class. I got to meet her family and sat with her daughter for a long time talking about recipes and learning new tricks. I would absolutely do another class, her food was really amazing!
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Claratelli42
May 4, 2024
We didn’t cook but food was tasty - Enjoyed meeting Shilpa, her and her husband were quite friendly. Recipes were simple, healthy, and tasty. For me, this was unfortunately more of a ‘watching’ class than a cooking class. We did not participate in cooking: her cook did the chopping and she did all the sauteeing. The extent of our participation was rolling out roti dough balls prepared by the household cook which was interrupted after the dough got a bit sticky.
Additionally, we did not go to an outdoor market but to a neighborhood supermarket for 10 minutes and did not buy anything.
If you prefer to actively cook and learn by trial and error as part of your experience, this class may not be for you. In previous cooking classes I’ve been to, each group has their own small cooking station to prepare their own meal as instructed by the teacher.
As Shilpa’s recipes were quite tasty and she was receptive to feedback, I’m looking forward to hearing how this class develops in the future.
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