Private 3-Hour Cooking Lesson and Meal in a Local Home in Jaipur

Fabulous evening, fabulous food.

This is an absolute must do if visiting Jaipur. Shalini is a fabulous cook and teacher, and her and her family made us feel so welcome in their home. It was fascinating to watch Shalini cook and give us tips to try at home ourselves.

Cooking lesson with Shalini for Jeff & Krys

Meal with Shalini was a great experience and good fun.It was great to meet all her family and share a meal with them.would highly recommend

Outstanding Experience

We had a lovely evening in the home of Shveta and her husband. The welcome was warm and we were made to feel very comfortable. The cooking class was terrific. We learned to make several dishes and came home with recipes to try to recreate them at home. Would highly recommend this event!

From now on I am an Indian chef..!

Me and my girlfriend had a great experience at Shveta’s home where she thought us how to make northern Indian dishes. Can’t wait to put my new skills at practice. Mostly excited about making Roti!

Wonderful class with Shveta

My boyfriend and I had an awesome time cooking with Shveta! She is such a sweet person who reallt welcomed us in her home. She explained all the recipes at great detail. We prepared pakoras, chicken curry, aloo gobhi, dal, rotis and some kheer together. Everything was delicious!

Cooking with Shalini

This was a half day cooking activity including a walk through the local stores to see all types of cooking utensils and the raw ingredients that we would use in our cookery class. Arriving at Shalini’s house we were met by members of her family who would assist her. The space available was small but adequate. Only maximum of 8 person’s fit into her kitchen area in 2 groups of 4. Great fun preparing the vegetables we had just bought in the market. Amazing that we prepared a lovely vegetarian lunch for 8 people and made our own chapatis. Refreshments provided included bottled water, masala tea or black or green tea. Toilet facilities available. Overall a pleasant 4 hour experience.

Wonderful food and hospitality

We (two US couples traveling in India together) had a really wonderful experience visiting and cooking with Shalini and her family at their home in Jaipur. Her class was highly recommended by some other friends and we're so glad we took them up on the tip. Despite our only being in Jaipur for one night, Shalini was able to shuffle her schedule to accommodate us. Her family was delightful and really made us feel at home throughout. I actually do a fair amount of Indian vegetarian cooking myself, but still learned a tremendous amount, from how to best roll out chapatis and cook them on a gas stove, to making filled parathas, when to add various spices to get different flavors, what spices are best kept handy in a spice box, etc. We made some classic dishes, but also several that were new to me such as a flour dumpling dish and a couple of different things made from local pumpkin. Everything was delicious, and Shalini's mother in law was pleasantly insistent on everyone having seconds (or thirds) of their favorites. Freshness was off the charts - many of the dishes included fresh herbs from the balcony garden, and the family grinds their own wheat flour at home using a large mill built for that purpose (apparently this is common in north Indian households, but I had no idea). Above all, it was really lovely to take a break from the road, meals in restaurants, etc. and get to spend time with Shalini and her family in their home, enjoying great home-cooked food, sharing stories, and learning.