Ubud Cooking Class Bali with Balinese Chef

About this tour

Spend four hours cooking alongside a Balinese chef in Ubud, working at your own station to prepare seven dishes from scratch. You'll learn to make spice pastes, satay, curries, and grilled specialities before sitting down to eat what you've made. Morning classes include a visit to the traditional market to source ingredients; afternoon sessions start at 2:30pm at Lapangan Desa Ubud. Choose vegetarian or meat-based menus.

Highlights

• Grind your own Balinese spice paste from whole aromatics
• Cook sate, curried vegetables or chicken, grilled fish in banana leaf
• Visit Ubud's working traditional market on morning sessions
• Eat lunch or dinner entirely from your own hands
• Work one-on-one with English-speaking local chef at dedicated station

What to expect

You'll arrive at a cooking space where a chef walks you through each dish. No demo-and-watch setup here—you're grinding pastes, heating woks, and grilling. The morning option includes a market trip first, where you'll spot the actual ingredients before cooking with them. Afternoon classes skip the market and jump straight into the kitchen. By the end, you'll have made seven dishes (pick your protein preference) and eat them straightaway. Expect around four hours on your feet, hands busy the whole time.

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