Cooking class with Berber family in Atlas Mountains Day trip from Marrakech

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Learn how to cook your favorite Moroccan dishes while spending time in a Moroccan farmhouse during this cooking class, held just outside of Marrakech. Start by learning about local spices before learning how to make local dishes, from bread to salad to Moroccan crepes; you can even request vegetarian and/or gluten-free options. Once you’re done, sit down to dine on the fruits of your labor before returning to Marrakech.

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* Duration: 6 hours
* Starts: Marrakech, Morocco
* Trip Category: Food, Wine & Nightlife >> Cooking Classes



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Learn how to cook your favorite Moroccan dishes while spending time in a Moroccan farmhouse during this cooking class, held just outside of Marrakech. Start by learning about local spices before learning how to make local dishes, from bread to salad to Moroccan crepes; you can even request vegetarian and/or gluten-free options. Once you’re done, sit down to dine on the fruits of your labor before returning to Marrakech.

After breakfast in your hotel in Marrakech, our local driver will pick up you and we drive towards Atlas Mountains via Tahanout. You will visit the Argan Oil cooperative as an amazing experience. We reach Asni where we may visit the weekly market (on Saturdays).

Then we continue to Imlil village, very popular as Toubkal ascent base. Here you will meet your local guide and after welcome mint tea in a Berber house, we discuss with you the cooking class menu of the most typical Moroccan dishes like couscous, tajine.

After preparing the shopping list we visit local souk with a local guide and after a short walk, we buy all fresh groceries we need. Once back in Berber house, we will start the preparation of the traditional Moroccan dishes with chef.

Once we finish our plat, the guide takes you to the waterfalls and we walk throughout the Berber village and learn about Berber hospitality.

We return back to the house to check the plat we cooked and we start to learn how to prepare a mint tea. After that, we learn the process of making the tajine with other participants. After enjoying a glass of traditional tea we finish our Berber cooking experience and we transfer you to Marrakech.

Sample Menu

• To get your appetite… – Chlada with Moroccan flavors (Moroccan tomato salad, broccoli salad, m’chermel carrots, lentils with khlii and pumpkins, peppers, eggplant zaalouk
• To follow… – Couscous with seven vegetables – semolina of wheat and chicken

Vegetarien berber tagine

Chicken tagine with preserved lemons
• Desserts – Oranges salad – almons and dates

Plate of Moroccan pastries



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