Cusco Cooking Class with Market Visit and Pisco Cocktail
From €53 per person
See availability →A Cusco cooking class with a local chef: browse the market for fruit and cheese, then cook a starter and a main, and mix a pisco sour or a fruity non-alcoholic drink.
This Cusco cooking class begins among the stalls of the city's most famous market, where you look over local fruit and cheese before heading to the kitchen with a chef born in Cusco. From there it is hands-on: aprons on, ingredients ready, and two Peruvian dishes and one drink to prepare under his guidance.
The starter is the same for everyone and comes in two versions: rocoto relleno, a stuffed chilli with meat, onions, peas, carrots and peanuts under melted local cheese, and causa rellena, a potato cake with yellow chilli sauce, filled with avocado and fish tartare.
For the main course you choose between lomo saltado, beef tenderloin with rice, onions, tomato and native potato fries, and a trout ceviche with mango, avocado, lime, corn and sweet potato. The drinks menu is just as open:
- A classic pisco sour
- A passion fruit sour
- A non-alcoholic drink made with Peruvian fruits and honey
Dishes and drinks are chosen before the class starts. Vegetarian options exist and the kitchen can adapt to other diets. Water, utensils and aprons are included; transport is not.