Oaxaca de Juárez Trip Overview
We take you to a Zapotec village where you will prepare traditional Oaxacan recipes with the help of kitchen experts, all based on corn. You will prepare Atole, Atole is a traditionally drink for the celebration of the Day of the Dead and tamales. Tamales are a traditional Mexican dish made with a corn based dough mixture that is filled with various meats or beans and cheese. Tamales are wrapped and cooked in corn husks.
Activity:
We drive you 30 minutes far away from the city to arrive in a Zapotec Village, here you will experience part of the Oaxacan Cuisine.
You will visit a market where you will get fresh, organic and local ingredients for your cooking class.
You will use some cooking utensils used by the ancient indigenous people like: molcajete, metate, griddle, jars, pots, pans, tortilla press, baskets, clay plates, grinders, pots, spatulas, spoons.
You will be able to know & to use them! At the end of the class you will able to taste your own creation.
Additional Info
Duration: 6 to 7 hours
Starts: Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico
Trip Category: Day Trips & Excursions >> Day Trips
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What to Expect When Visiting Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico
We take you to a Zapotec village where you will prepare traditional Oaxacan recipes with the help of kitchen experts, all based on corn. You will prepare Atole, Atole is a traditionally drink for the celebration of the Day of the Dead and tamales. Tamales are a traditional Mexican dish made with a corn based dough mixture that is filled with various meats or beans and cheese. Tamales are wrapped and cooked in corn husks.
Activity:
We drive you 30 minutes far away from the city to arrive in a Zapotec Village, here you will experience part of the Oaxacan Cuisine.
You will visit a market where you will get fresh, organic and local ingredients for your cooking class.
You will use some cooking utensils used by the ancient indigenous people like: molcajete, metate, griddle, jars, pots, pans, tortilla press, baskets, clay plates, grinders, pots, spatulas, spoons.
You will be able to know & to use them! At the end of the class you will able to taste your own creation.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Tlalixtac de Cabrera, Tlalixtac de Cabrera, Southern Mexico
The market is one of the most popular places for visitors to Oaxaca, and for good reason.The local market is a traditional tianguis that has been taking place since Zapotec and Mixtec times, probably since the Spanish relocated the inhabitants. We will be able to buy all local and fresh ingredients for our dishes, remeber we do not hve a especificalmenu , because al dishes depends of the season of the year , market on Sundays is awash with fantastic food, colourful artisans and plants, dried chillies and seeds and pretty much anything else you can imagine. Oaxaca it a hotspot for foodies all over the world , but few are the luckiest ones who can go in the very dep experience of cooking with real people in a village .Here you will enjoy the way how you can find or collect the fresh ingridients for a soup or any other local diche that you will not able to find it anywhere ! You can have a unique experince because the ingredients are not the same all over the year , we cook seasonal !
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Tlalixtac de Cabrera, Tlalixtac de Cabrera, Southern Mexico
You will prepare traditional recipes from Oaxaca with the help of kitchen experts, all based on corn.
You will prepare:
Atole, a hot Mexican beverage typically made from masa (corn dough) or masa harina (dough flour), water, and spices and Tamales are a traditional Mexican dish made with a corn. based dough mixture that is filled with various meats or beans and cheese. Tamales are wrapped and cooked in corn husks
Visit to a local market where you will buy fresh, organic and local ingredients for food preparation.
You will use some ancient indigenous tools like: molcajete, metate, griddle, jars, pots, pans, tortilla press, baskets, clay plates, grinders, pots, spatulas, spoons. You will be able to know & to use them! at the end of the class you will able to taste your own creation.
You will prerare:
Tamales, Mole, tortillas & Atole, salsa de Molcajete, Memelas
Included: Transportation, traslation, breakfast , lunch, mezcal , drinks and all ingredients for the cooking class.
Duration: 5 hours
