Enjoy a hands-on way to discover the highlights of Sicilian cuisine: this home cooking class has you whipping up a variety of traditional dishes in no time. Make your own fresh pasta, get to work prepping and cooking. At the end of the class, enjoy your delicious meal of authentic Sicilian cuisine, plus wine, coffee, and limoncello to accompany.

Handmade Pasta and Tiramisù cooking class in Palermo

Good morning I'm Velia.In this cooking class we will learn how to make traditional recipes of Italian gastronomy using fresh and seasonal products.At the end of the course we will be able to sit at the table and eat what we have prepared.I'm waiting to welcome you to my home in Palermo with the typical warmth of a DOC Sicilian!

Sun & taste of Sicily-  small group hands-on cooking class 

Bagheria is famous worldwide for its 18th-century villas: I'll introduce you to their unique features, and you'll be captivated by their beauty! Additionally, my wonderful town has been dubbed the "City of Taste": you'll discover and enjoy typical products tied to tradition and the pleasure of good food! You can taste the famous Bagheria white Sfincione, arancini, moffolette with ricotta, and Sicilian cannoli.

Exploring Bagheria's culinary specialties

I'll let you taste "SFINCIONE" a particular Bagheria focaccia with anchovies, pecorino cheese, onions, breadcrumbs, sliced tuma (Sicilain cheese made from raw sheep's milk) and extra-virgin olive oil. Then you'll taste the Vastedda (typical soft bread) with ricotta cheese and we conclude with the sfincia (dessert with Bagheria ricotta cream).

Bagheria: home of the true Sicilian street food

Sicily has been a land that has had in past centuries many dominations that have left their flavors in our cuisine..one of them is sweet and sour! I am going to let you taste some dishes where sweet and sour is the protagonist! We will start with eggplant caponata. Then I will prepare pasta alla norma, fried sardines with sweet and sour onion, and to finish a very sweet orange jelly.

The sweet and sour flavors of my kitchen

This experience offers you a three-course menu (starter, pasta, dessert) with wine included. All the dishes prepared have an important value for me, as they are traditional recipes that have been passed down through my family. From eggplant parmesan to a type of pasta called "guitar" spaghetti cause of their shape, finishing off with a fruity jelly.

My family's traditional Sicilian recipes

This cooking class is designed for everyone, but it can be transformed into one suitable for those who follow a vegan or vegetarian diet.I usually prepare egg pasta with my guests, but we can also prepare eggless pasta, typical in Sicily. We will cook the sauces with only local products and then you will enjoy it sitting comfortably in the garden sipping a glass of wine. We will start by tasting an aperitif with typical local products. My kitchen is located in an outbuilding on my patio with a flower garden.

Let's knead fresh pasta together

We will prepare together the arancine with meat sauce, they are big rice balls stuffed with meat sauce and peas or stuffed with ham and mozzarella and then fried. You will taste the typical flavors of Sicilian street food, accompanied by typical local wine.

Sicilian Street Food...Arancine

This cooking class includes three pasta recipes, a welcome appetizer and is followed by lunch or dinner with the three pasta recipes prepared during the course. You can't miss the ravioli filled with ricotta cheese with Trapanese pesto, a delicacy seasoned with typical Sicilian ingredients. Come and give it a try!

Fresh pasta cooking class, from tradition to the present day

I will introduce you to the seaside village of Aspra with its characteristic fish market. Then we will go to my house where I will prepare a typical lunch with local fish. Mine is an exclusively local cuisine.

The taste of fish from my sea!!

You will discover the authentic tastes, flavors and aromas of Sicilian cuisine, and we will make caponata together.The menu starts with eggplant rolls made in the Bagherese style, followed by spaghetti alla chitarra with cherry tomatoes and meat rolls in the palermitan style. You can't miss the dessert, an orange or watermelon jelly.

Four-course meal to taste true sicilian flavors

Cooking class with three recipes (appetizer, fresh pasta dish and dessert) followed by a meal to taste the dishes prepared during the course. The menu starts with eggplant parmigiana and to follow offers a nice fresh pasta dish, spaghetti alla chitarra with cherry tomatoes. Dessert will be an orange or watermelon jelly.

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