Neighborhood Market Tour & South Indian Cooking Class in Chennai

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Location

Chennai

Duration

5 hours

Group size

Max 10 guests

Accessibility

Stroller Accessible

Language

English

Location

Chennai

Duration

5 hours

Group size

Max 10 guests

Accessibility

Stroller Accessible

Language

English

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•7 reviews

US$165.33 per guest

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Adult x1

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Earliest Date Available: September 17, 2026This experience is in high demand. Book now to lock in the next available date.

Free CancellationCancel for free up to 1 day before your experience

Food for HappinessFor every guest in your booking, we donate 10 meals to children around the world

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Earliest Date Available: September 17, 2026This experience is in high demand. Book now to lock in the next available date.

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Food for HappinessFor every guest in your booking, we donate 10 meals to children around the world

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Join a local in Chennai for a 5-hour full culinary experience that includes a market visit, South Indian cooking lesson, and authentic in-home meal. Experience a cozy setting in this local home as you hear about South Indian life over Tamilian, vegetarian cuisine with your host. Leave with new recipes, a new friend, and lifelong memories.

Private market tour and cooking class with your host Jyashree

Home-cooked South Indian vegetarian meal

Hotel pickup and drop-off

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.

MAIN

Sambar

Lentils cooked with local vegetables

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Rasam

Peppery tomato broth eaten with rice

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Vegetable poriyal

Sautéed vegetables with regional spices and freshly grated coconut

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Morkuzhmbu

Spiced yogurt gravy with coconut, red chilies, mango and curry leaves

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Vegetable fry

Potato, cauliflower or colacassia, marinated in spices and fried to golden brown perfection

MAIN

Dosas

Roasted, crisp, savory rice flour crepes served with a fresh chutney

STARTER

An assortment of Jyashree's homemade pickles and chutneys

STARTER

Rice

DESSERT

Sweet dessert

Meeting Point

39 MG Ramachandran Rd, MG Ramachandran Road, Chennai Tamil Nadu, India, IN, 600090

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Please meet Jyashree at her home in Besant Nagar neighborhood of Chennai. Please check the 'Before you go' section on your voucher for the exact address, the above only offers neighbourhood details, and not the exact address. Exact address can be found in your ticket upon booking confirmation.

End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

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DogDaze55November 2023 • TripAdvisor

Excellent cooking class, local in-home hospitality. We learned how to cook classic dishes. Highly recommend.

Wow! Amazing hospitality, We learned recipes and got to do hands-on supervised cooking on three dishes. And, we could elect the level of chile we cooked with, from USA our tourist heat tolerance is milder than South India's love of chile. The many other spices layered under the heat are wonderful. On arrival, our host took us on a car tour of a local shrine, the beach front, and a bustling outside vegetable market identifying unfamiliar fruits, vegetables, spices, and lentils. Back home, we ...read more

Safari02334828584September 2023 • TripAdvisor

Superb experience!

Such fun! What a lovely experience - meeting Jyashree & Ravi was a highlight of our trip. From our first contact, responses were prompt and information was clear. We were met at our hotel by Ravi, Jyashrees lovely husband and went to a local cafe where we had the best coffee and traditional Idly for breakfast. A walk around the vegetable market showed us a number of vegetables we had never seen! Then to their home where we received a warm welcome. We cooked a number of dishes under Jyashrees gui...read more

Sofia CAugust 2023 • TripAdvisor

The highlight of our weekend!!

My friend and I booked this experience, at first unsure if we could make it since we booked it barely 24h in advance. A quick tip- if you can use Whassap to contact the number provided by Traveling spoon, it should be able to reach the hosts directly. Makes everything easier! As for the cooking class, Jyashree and her husband were the warmest and most knowledgeable of all things delicious and south indian. We were surprised to find that they welcomed us into their beautiful home, and got to han...read more

O3876JBdalesMarch 2023 • TripAdvisor

Excellent experience!

Jyashree and her family we wonderful hosts and teachers. Her home was beautiful and the food delicious. The market tour added a nice touch.

LMarch 2020 • Viator

Amazing hosts with wonderful cuisine

Jayshree was a wonderful teacher. Her husband showed us around a local vegetable market with explanations of all the regional fruits and veggies. Upon arrival to the beautiful home, we were given a welcoming tea. The hosts shared many amazing stories and experiences. Throughout the whole session, Jayshree kept a close watch but let us do most of the cooking. The dishes that we prepared were true representations of southern Indian cuisine. She even shared some of her secret recipes which I ...read more