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 

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

Typical 4-course menu consisting of an appetizer, a first course of fresh pasta, a second course with side dish, a dessert and wine included. Welcome drink and cooking demonstration on a dish from the menu.Dishes offered include the typical busiate cooked with pumpkin and sausage and Palermo-style meat rolls, a real treat. Waiting for you!

Typical 4-course Sicilian menu

You will be welcomed in my art atelier immersed in the historic Ballarò market (Souk El Ballarak), we will decide our menu together, we will go and buy the ingredients at the market among the characteristic counters full of colors and scents typical of our land. We will return home and together we will create the menu with imagination, tradition and seasonality. The menu will consist of 3 courses, appetizer, first course of fresh pasta, dessert. The menu varies according to the season and your tastes. I will be careful of your allergies and intolerances. During the cooking class you can enjoy an aperitif with local products and during lunch / dinner, you can drink excellent organic Sicilian wine. All accompanied by my stories and my songs.

Market tour and cooking class in Palermo 

Cooking class with 3 recipes (appetizer, first course of fresh pasta and dessert) followed by a 3-course menu with the dishes prepared during the course. Not only will you learn to cook, but you will enter into a convivial atmosphere, full of stories, songs and smiles typical of Palermo. You will be welcomed in my Atelier located in the Ballarò district, right in the historical center. Organic Sicilian wine will be your drinking companion. Bis, water and coffee will not miss.

Cooking Class with 3 recipes in Palermo

3-course menu (starter, pasta, dessert) with wine included.Whether it's lunch or dinner, you will be welcomed in my Atelier in the heart of the Souk el Ballarak (Ballarò market). I will welcome you with a welcome drink accompanied by Palermitan delicacies and homemade bread. As an appetizer you will find the caciocavallo cheese with vinegar, oil and oregano. As a first course a fresh pasta typical of the season with cauliflower, onion, saffron, anchovies all put in the oven to brown. For dessert, a fresh orange frost with organic Sicilian oranges. The smile, the tales and the songs of tradition will accompany you for an experience made of taste and love for your land. The products used to create the dishes you will taste are fresh and at 0 km. The wine you will sip comes from organic Sicilian cellars. Attention to raw materials and organic products are my strong point.

Lunch or Dinner in Souk el Ballarak (BALLARO' market)

"Pasta al forno" Palermitana is a type of ring-shaped pasta with meat sauce, peas and cheese, baked in the oven. Its preparation requires attention and time. This type of dish is eaten on Sundays or holidays. The particular format of pasta allows, the peas contained in the meat sauce, to finish in the center of the ring, so as to make the meal joyful and super tasty. Every Sicilian family has its own secret recipe and I am ready to reveal mine.You will be welcomed into my Atelier nestled in the Ballarò neighborhood. Together we will prepare this type of pasta and an appetizer the famous "Cacio all'Argentiera," caciocavallo cheese with vinegar, oil and oregano,also baked.You will enjoy your lunch with excellent organic Sicilian wine and we will finish with homemade liqueurs. Water, encores and coffee will not be missed!For those who have a car and wish to, we could meet at my house in the countryside 20 minutes from palermo immersed in the Monreale area.

Cook with me the Traditional "Pasta a forno" of Palermo.

Come cook carnival chatter with me! Carnival in my town is a party for everyone, young and old.Around there is music, colors, masks and lots of laughter. At the table there are traditional foods and sweets such as Chiacchere, thin sheets of dough fried and dusted with powdered sugar: you can't cook them in time that they are already finished!You will be welcomed in my atelier in the heart of the Ballarò market with a rich savory aperitif of km 0 and seasonal products, which you can enjoy during the preparation or right before pampering yourself with the sweet fragrance of the Chiacchiere. All accompanied by organic Sicilian wine, water and coffee.

Chiacchiere in company (typical carnival dessert)

Cook a Sicilian menu of three specialty dishes during a private cooking class in Palermo.Start by choosing the freshest ingredients, then sip Sicilian wines as you cook in your host's home kitchen. The menu varies according to the season to highlight local pastas, fresh vegetables, meats and fish, and desserts, and the class concludes by sharing the meal you've cooked with your host.

Handmade Sicilian Pasta Cooking Class

Easter is approaching and with it also the preparation of the typical dishes of this holiday.What a better opportunity to get your hands in the dough and learn while having fun preparing the sweets that are symbolic of Sicilian Easter. An authentic experience that will allow you to learn and taste sweets that you will carry in your heart forever. The cooking class will be dedicated to the preparation of 3 traditional Sicilian Easter sweets. Baked cassata, marzipan lamb and cuddura with egg (Easter biscuit) will be the protagonists. Anecdotes, stories and secrets of these sweets will be told during the preparation.The preparation of the sweets will be followed by a snack where all the prepared sweets will be tasted paired with coffee, tea and homemade liqueurs.

Traditional Easter sweets in Sicily

Sicily is world famous for its sweets, the origins of which are the result of the many dominations that have passed through it. The different dominations in addition to having left traces in the architectural sphere have left a gastronomic legacy that has evolved, giving rise to Sicilian cuisine. Desserts are a fundamental pillar, without which a lunch or dinner cannot be concluded worthily, especially during festive periods. During the cooking class you will learn how to prepare 3 traditional Sicilian desserts as well as discover curious anecdotes about the origin or name of the dish. From almond cookies to cassata, via watermelon gelo and biscotti reginella. The desserts prepared vary according to seasonality and the holidays when it is customary to prepare them.

Sicilian dessert: a long pastry-making tradition

We will pay a visit to a typical Sicilian market with street vendors and purchase raw materials , and then we will go home to cook the three recipes of our menu.We will prepare the following menu:-Sfincione palermitano-Eggplant rolls stuffed with fresh pasta: homemade maccaruni covered with fresh sheep ricotta cheese-Lemon cream or ricotta cake as a final dessert