Top Tulum Cooking Classes

Learn about the flavors and ingredients of Aztec, Mayan and Mexican cuisine on this intimate tour in a local’s home. Under the tutelage of your host, prepare a 3-course meal—soup, main, and dessert—along with homemade salsa and tortillas. You’ll also sample and learn the proper way to taste mezcal. Afterward, share the meal you’ve prepared with your hosts and new amigos.

Meet Antonio at his home and start your authentic Mayan food experience with guacamole and sikil paak (tomato-pumpkin seed salsa) while Antonio describes the menu. Next join him in the kitchen to learn to cook a traditional Mayan meal from recipes he learned from his mother and has perfected working as a food professional. Your hands-on cooking class will last about 2 hours and you will learn to cook 3 dishes including a soup, ceviche and main course. For soup, you may learn to make sopa de lima (chicken and lime soup) or crema de calabasa yucateca (creamy Mayan squash soup served in a squash bowl). For the main, you might cook pescado tikin-xic (Mayan fish steamed in banana leaves) and served with a side vegetable. Antonio enjoys creating traditional Mayan dishes with a creative personal touch. Antonio may have a sous chef join to help with prep and clean up. You will also visit a local market store to learn about regional ingredients such as naranja agria and the variety of chilies.

Our adventure will begin when we arrive at our sanctuary where one of our shamans will bless you to enter the jungle where our sanctuary is located, we remind you that this blessing is to be able to thank the ancient spirits of chocolate and honey for improving the experience. Our expert chocolatiers will give us a tour through the history of Mayan cocoa and how the seeds were used, we will also learn the process to create our own chocolate from roasting the seeds, peeling them and grinding them into the metates. even choosing to add our favorite ingredient to make a personal chocolate mix. We will take a workshop on the conservation of the Maya bee, the only bee in the world that does not have a stinger, so our sanctuary seeks to preserve it, and the honey it produces has a unique flavor and is considered As a medicinal, you can also participate in the collection of honey, you will make soaps and candles with honey with your own hands and you can take one of these products to home.