Private Empanada Cooking Class: Discover Authentic Argentine Cuisine with a Local in Buenos Aires
4.9
7 Ratings
Buenos Aires
Discover the secrets of authentic Argentine cuisine with a private empanada cooking class in Buenos Aires. Learn from a local and explore the local market for fresh ingredients.
Duration:
4 hours
Cancellation:
2 days
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Highlights
- Belgrano - This is a unique opportunity to visit the home of a local and explore traditional culture and cuisine. Join your local host Gabriela and her friend Patricia at her apartment centrally located in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires for your traditional empanada cooking lesson. Over a welcome glass of wine or beer, enjoy a picada – a traditional Argentinian platter of cheeses, jams, and nuts – on Gabriela’s large balcony. Next, join Gabriela in her kitchen for your hands-on cooking lesson. Learn how to best prepare meat as Gabriela shares her secrets for how to perfect the empanada filling. You will learn to prepare three different fillings, perhaps a chicken and leek, zucchini and cheese, and the traditional Argentinian cheese and jam filling. After cooking, enjoy your empanadas served alongside a fresh salad. End your meal with a dessert of chocotorta, a traditional Argentinian layered chocolate cake or dulce de leche, served with coffee or tea.
If you choose the market tour + cooking option, Gabriela takes you on a private tour of the local Belgrano market. This is where chefs shop and where you will discover, sample, and purchase meat and regional produce for your class.
What's Included
- All taxes, fees and handling charges included
- Private empanada cooking class with host Gabriela
- Enjoy a delicious meal with your host
- Savor local alcohol (1-2 glasses)
- Optional private market tour with cooking class
- Gratuities included
What's Not Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
Meal Options
- Picada - traditional Argentinian platter of local cheese, hummus and chorizo
- Fizzy welcome drink
- A variety of empanadas - Traditional Argentinian pastry with a variety of fillings such as chicken and leeks, zucchini and cheese, and local cheese and jam
- Fresh salad
- Dulce de leche pancakes, chocotorta or alfajores with tea or coffee
Additional Information
Enjoy a private and authentic cooking class in a local Buenos Aires home with your host Gabriela, a Buenos Aires native. This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food. Your cooking class will take place in Gabriela’s local home kitchen where she will teach you how to make the most traditional Argentinian dish, empanadas, with a variety of fillings. After cooking, you will enjoy your meal together in your hosts’ beautiful Buenos Aires apartment centrally located in the Belgrano neighborhood.
- Empanadas making and cooking lesson in a local home
- Introduction to Argentinian culture and cuisine
- 100% private activity
- Experience Argentine hospitality in a residential neighborhood
- Vegetarian and gluten free options available
If you choose the market tour + cooking option, Gabriela will take you on a private tour of the local Belgrano market where you will discover, sample and purchase local meat and produce for your cooking class.
- Menu may vary depending on the season
- If any travelers in your party have any allergies, dietary restrictions or cooking preferences please advise at time of booking
- Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- Private, personalized experience
- Please note that the price of your experience includes alcohol
- Please also note that the cooking portion of your experience will take place on Gabriela’s dining table, as she has a small kitchen.
Location
Belgrano
Please meet your host Gabriela at her apartment in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Exact address can be found in your ticket upon booking confirmation.
Cancellation Policy
If you cancel at least 3 day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a full refund.
If you cancel within 2 day(s) of the scheduled departure, you will receive a 0% refund.
Customer Ratings
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Steven_s
Mar 9, 2024
Great experience - Gabby was amazing ! Welcoming us into her home and teaching us her family recipes! Lunch was delicious ! We had such a good time and learned a lot!
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Supernop
Sep 17, 2019
Good Food, Good Fun, now Good Friends - Four of spent a wonderful evening with Gabriela and Patricia learning the tricks of making empanadas. We were greeted with a nice beverage and after some socialization, headed to the kitchen. Great fun! We must have been successful as we really enjoyed our resulting dinner. They even fulfilled a special request I made. Both the food we prepared and the wine they served was excellent. We talked until after midnight when our hosts made sure we got a taxi back to our hotel. We feel as we now have new friends in Buenos Aires.
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Cgarrison13
May 24, 2019
Wonderful experience with lovely hosts! - I am SO happy I found this class with Gabriela and her friend Patricia! My mom was visiting me in Buenos Aires and I was looking to book her some fun things to do during the day while I had to work. She was on her own and does not speak Spanish. Imagine my delight when I came across Gabriela's empanada experience! Normally the class is for at least two people, but she made an exception for my mom, and I was so grateful! My mom had a total blast and felt like she was with two friends all day. She really enjoyed the lesson and wants to try making them at home for our whole family. They even took her on a tour of the lovely Belgrano neighborhood afterwards. My mom has not stopped talking about her great day with Gabriela and Patricia. I highly recommend this experience. They are both lovely, kind ladies and the empanadas are delicious!
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S6273lhdavidy
May 2, 2019
A Foodie's Delight - Gabi and Patricia were amazing hosts and great company. The class is fun and hands on with a great chance to understand more about Argentine food, wine and culture. As a frequent visitor to BA this was one of the best activities I have done and felt so relaxed and had such an enjoyable time I didn't want to leave. As a hospitality professional I can thoroughly recommend this activity.
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Jon
Apr 1, 2019
A Great Time & A New Dish For Home - Our hostess and teacher, Gabriella, showed us how to cook several types of really tasty empanadas and how to form five (that’s what I remember - maybe it was more) shapes of shells with different dough folding and pinching techniques. The pumpkin and cheese were fantastic! The best thing is, it’s easy enough to do and we do them at home all the time now. This was one of the best evenings we had in Buenos Aries and definitely was a bargain at the price. She mentioned that she can teach other classic Argentine foods as well and we will surely call her when we are back. Not to be missed!
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Audreyg175
Jan 11, 2024
Warm and friendly instructor - I appreciated that Gabby reached out to us, as soon as we booked and we even met over Zoom. She was friendly and warm and willing to help with anything we needed. We had good directions to her home and she was waiting outside to meet us. We enjoyed our walk and visit to the market but we enjoyed the empanada class more. She prepared a snack for us, before we began and she had most of the ingredients prepped and ready for us to assemble. We learned different ways to fold the dough and how to tell what is inside, based on the fold. I think we made 3 or 4 different fillings. They were all tasty but unfortunately, we got talking and the last type was a bit burned. Our 2-3 hour experience turned into 6 hours and we left feeling like we were old friends.
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