South Indian Cooking Class in Chennai with a Passionate Baker
Join Vidhya in Chennai for a private South Indian cooking class. Learn to make traditional dishes like sambar. Discover culture, tips, and adjust for dietary needs, plus optional market tour.
10 meals
Experience Details
Enjoy a private and authentic South Indian cooking class in a local Chennai home kitchen with Vidhya. This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food. Vidhya hails from a traditional brahmin iyer family and has been an eggless home baker for many years. She would like to teach travelers to cook a traditional South Indian meal. Her cooking is influenced by all the beautiful cities she has lived in. She is a culinary enthusiast who loves to experiment with tastes, textures, and techniques.
• Private vegetarian South Indian cooking class in a local home
• Introduction to South Indian culture and cuisine
• Learn to cook a lentil curry like sambar or rasam and an Indian dessert
• Learn tips and tricks that were passed down through generations
• Lactose free, gluten free, vegetarian and vegan diets are available on request
• If you select the add on market tour - you will visit a local grocery store to buy a few ingredients for your cooking class
Sample Menu
What You Get
Good To Know
- Vidhya can accommodate lactose free, gluten free, vegetarian and vegan diets, on request. So please let her know if you have any dietary restrictions in advance, while booking your Chennai cooking class online.
- If you would like to be served breakfast items instead of a typical South Indian lunch, Vidhya can also make idli, dosa, adai, uthappam or paniyarams, so please let her know your preference in advance.
- If you select the market tour option, please note that this isn’t a traditional market tour but a visit to a grocery store from where Vidhya buys her grains, lentils and spices.
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
What You’ll Experience
Meeting & Pickup
Meeting PointThe Grand Sweets & Snacks, 11th Cross Street, Chennai Tamil Nadu, India, IN, 600020
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End PointThis experience ends at the meeting point.
Cancellation Policy
Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.
My first cooking class. Our host family welcomed us warmly. The house was very nice and clean. During the lesson, we learned the requested sambar, rasam, vada, and carrot pickle. The recipe she ga...read more
I had excellent time with Mrs Srividya. We cooked spiced sweet potato, green vegetable curry, rasam soup, pineapple raita and she explained each step of cooking with seasonal vegetables. Simple but...read more
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10 meals
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