Private South Indian Cooking Class and Market Visit in Chennai

This is a unique opportunity to visit the home of a local and explore traditional culture and cuisine. Enjoy a South Indian coffee at your host's home before driving together to the local market. Explore the vegetable and flower vendor stalls and learn about the varieties of regional produce sold at this street market that locals shop at. Next join Jyashree in her kitchen where she will teach you to prepare vegetable poriyal (sautéed vegetables with spices), flavored rice, and rasam (a peppery broth eaten with rice and ghee), the essentials of a South Indian Iyer sapaad (meal). You can expect the cooking lesson to last about 1-2 hours. Enjoy a traditional South Indian Iyer sapaad, a vegetarian Tamil Brahmin spread that you helped prepare along with other dishes prepared in advance. Enjoy a wide variety of dishes all prepared with fresh, seasonal ingredients and served on a banana leaf. Your meal will be accompanied by rice and handmade dosas (crispy South Indian crepes). Sample homemade pickles and chutneys, which vary based on the seasons, such as tender mango pickle or her green tomato, chili and garlic chutney. End your meal with a sweet dessert and memories to last a lifetime.

Stop At:

• Traveling Spoon, Chennai (Madras) India

Sample Menu

• Sambar - Lentils cooked with local vegetables
• Rasam - Peppery tomato broth eaten with rice
• Vegetable poriyal - Sautéed vegetables with regional spices and freshly grated coconut
• Morkuzhmbu - Spiced yogurt gravy with coconut, red chilies, mango and curry leaves
• Vegetable fry - Potato, cauliflower or colacassia, marinated in spices and fried to golden brown perfection
• Dosas - Roasted, crisp, savory rice flour crepes served with a fresh chutney
• An assortment of Jyashree's homemade pickles and chutneys
• Rice
• Sweet dessert