Local Cooking Experience from Jaffna

Name: Local Cooking Experience from Jaffna
Start: 2025-07-18T11:00:00Z
Location: Jaffna

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Summary

Experience Details

What You’ll Experience

Where to Meet

Location

Jaffna

Duration

2 hours

Number of Guests

1 - 8 guests

Language

English

Other

Private Experience

Digital Ticket

Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Explore Jaffna culinary traditions with a local guide. Learn to make authentic Mutton Curry and Pittu using clay pots. Enjoy your freshly cooked meal in serene Jaffna surroundings.

For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

This 2-hour tour gives you a chance to experience and learn the delicious Jaffna cuisine. Visit the pretty and peaceful suburbs of Jaffna for this delve into the everyday lives of the locals. Learn to cook the famous Jaffna Mutton Curry and aromatic Pittu. Try your hand at traditional cooking with a clay stove and fired clay pots. Enjoy a delicious Jaffna-style meal cooked with your own hands.

Sample Menu

MAIN

Pittu Cylinder

. You will then steam the raw pitta in a special ‘pittu maker’. This tool can be purchased in the Jaffna market if you want to try it at home.

What You Get

Service of an Knowledgeable English speaking guide.

Home cooked Lunch or Dinner.

One Traditional Cooking Class Session.

Hotel pickup and drop-off.

Food and beverages where not specified.

Expenses of personal nature.

Good To Know

Do let us know if you have any specific dietary requirements.
Public transportation options are available nearby

What You’ll Experience

Your guide will meet you at a preplanned location there at either 11:00 am (for a lunchtime class) or 4:30 pm and take you to the home. You will be introduced to the family and get to see the traditional kitchen tools that they use. You will learn how to light the Jaffna-style mud and clay stove using firewood and dried wood flakes. Your cuisine for the day will be Jaffna style mutton curry using good quality local farm produced mutton, and Red Rice Flour Pittu - one of the staple foods of the region. You will learn to clean and cook the mutton with a variety of aromatic spices that take away the slightly gamey flavor that many people dislike. . When the food is cooked you will sit to meal of thick tasty mutton curry with freshly steamed cylinders of pittu. You will be eating on banana leaves with your hands - the traditional way. After enjoying a wonderful meal, your tour will be completed by approximately 1:00 pm or 6:30 pm, depending on your start time.