Balinese Cooking Class & Village Visit

The day

This is the cooking class you bring home with you. You'll start at a local market where Made and a family cook walk you through ingredients you've probably never seen (salam leaves, kemiri nuts, kencur root), then head to a traditional family compound just outside Ubud. Over the next three hours you'll prepare five dishes — typically sate lilit, base gede curry paste, gado-gado, sayur urab, and black rice pudding — using the open-flame kitchen and hand-pounded spices. You eat what you cook, family-style, on the floor of the family's pavilion. You leave with a printed recipe card and a very full stomach.

Highlights

• Traditional market walk with ingredient lessons
• 5-dish menu, hand-pounded spice pastes
• Authentic family compound setting (not a tourist restaurant)
• Recipe card to take home
• Vegetarian/vegan options available

Itinerary

1. 08:00

   Hotel pickup

   Pickup from Ubud or South Bali.

2. 09:00

   Market walk

   Local market tour with ingredient demonstrations.

3. 10:00

   Arrive at compound

   Welcome drink and kitchen orientation.

4. 10:30

   Cook 5 dishes

   Hands-on preparation with the family cook.

5. 13:00

   Eat together

   Family-style meal in the pavilion.

6. 14:00

   Return

   Drop off at your hotel.

What to bring

• Apron (provided if you don't bring one)
• Appetite
• Camera

Meeting point

Anywhere in Bali — Made picks you up at your hotel, villa, or the airport