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Sicilian Cooking Class: Authentic Family Recipes
5.0
59 Ratings
Arenella
Immerse yourself in a traditional Sicilian cooking class in the serene setting of a garden. Learn to prepare a delicious menu using fresh, local ingredients. Book now!
Immerse yourself in a traditional Sicilian cooking class in the serene setting of a garden. Learn to prepare a delicious menu using fresh, local ingredients. Book now!
Duration:
2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Via Isole delle Molucche - Join Teresa in her kitchen to create three delightful Sicilian dishes using fresh, seasonal ingredients. This hands-on lesson is engaging, enjoyable, and educational, ideal for those who appreciate local, healthy, and authentic cuisine. Participants will cook, acquire new skills, and savor the meal they have prepared….
- Via Isole delle Molucche - Join Teresa in her kitchen to create three delightful Sicilian dishes using fresh, seasonal ingredients. This hands-on lesson is engaging, enjoyable, and educational, ideal for those who appreciate local, healthy, and authentic cuisine. Participants will cook, acquire new skills, and savor the meal they have prepared. (Vegetarian options are available upon request, but gluten-free options are not.)
For those interested in shopping for the lesson, an additional excursion to the Ortigia market is offered (prior to the lesson, €50 per person, payable on site).
Activities at the market include:
- Exploring the stalls
- Purchasing the fresh ingredients needed for the lesson
- Sampling Sicilian specialties
- Receiving a selection of traditional recipes in English
This experience is recommended for a minimum of two participants.
What's Included
- Hands-on Sicilian cooking class in a local home
- Seasonal recipes, the menu is not fixed
- The experience can be personalized
- With an additional cost the experience can be private
- Safe parking
- Hands-on Sicilian cooking class in a local home
- Seasonal recipes, the menu is not fixed
- The experience can be personalized
- With an additional cost the experience can be private
- Safe parking
What's Not Included
- For organizational reasons it is not possible to change the menu on the day of the lesson
- The recipes are local and gluten-free food is not cooked
- Private transportation
- For organizational reasons it is not possible to change the menu on the day of the lesson
- The recipes are local and gluten-free food is not cooked
- Private transportation
Meal Options
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First course - Sicilian appetizer with vegetables
or a meat dish
or a fish dish
. The meal is seasonal and always changes.You can add your preferences in advance. -
Main course - Fresh pasta: ravioli, busiate o cavatelli
or dry pasta or pizza or Sicilian impanata with vegetables or arancine You can indicate your preferences. - Sicilian dessert -…
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First course - Sicilian appetizer with vegetables
or a meat dish
or a fish dish
. The meal is seasonal and always changes.You can add your preferences in advance. -
Main course - Fresh pasta: ravioli, busiate o cavatelli
or dry pasta or pizza or Sicilian impanata with vegetables or arancine You can indicate your preferences. - Sicilian dessert - In Sicily we have an excellent fresh ricotta. Usually the dessert is with local ricotta or with Avola almonds or a tiramisu or with Bronte pistachios.
Additional Information
Chef Teresa, born and raised in Syracuse, learned family recipes from a young age. Today, Teresa teaches both simple and complex recipes that focus on authentic Sicilian flavors.
In this hands-on Sicilian cuisine course, participants will learn to prepare three genuine family recipes, turning fresh ingredients into a delightful traditional meal. The…
Chef Teresa, born and raised in Syracuse, learned family recipes from a young age. Today, Teresa teaches both simple and complex recipes that focus on authentic Sicilian flavors.
In this hands-on Sicilian cuisine course, participants will learn to prepare three genuine family recipes, turning fresh ingredients into a delightful traditional meal. The menu is seasonal and varies daily.
This experience is interactive, engaging, and educational, ideal for food enthusiasts seeking an authentic and memorable experience.
Please specify any intolerances. Teresa does not prepare gluten-free dishes.
During the lesson, a course on making a birthday cake is available. Inform Teresa upon arrival.
Take advantage of a special last-minute price.
- Gluten free food is not cooked
- For this experience you can find a discounted last minute
- A minimum number of two people is welcome for this experience..
Location
Via Isole delle Molucche, 8t
Via Isole delle Molucche
Via isole Molucche 8 t si trova in località Arenella. Arenella e’ una zona balneare di Siracusa.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Jadeh62
May 27, 2025
Wonderful market tour + class - Learned some great Sicilian homecooking dishes and how to make three kinds of pasta! Excited to try making at home in the future. The market tour was wonderful and informative
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Carole611
May 12, 2025
Highly recommend this terrific class! - What a wonderful morning we had cooking with Teresa! Even though I cook Italian at home, I learned so much from her about ingredients & cooking techniques. This is a terrific class for both non-cooks & experienced ones. Our reward was sitting down on the patio eating the dishes we cooked. It was a sumptuous meal with high quality, fresh ingredients and believe me - you won’t walk away hungry! At the end, she shared her recipes for us to take home. Highly recommend her class!
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Loganr860
Apr 28, 2025
Loved this cooking class! - Teresa provided us such a wonderful experience cooking a traditional Sicilian meal! She not only provided great, easy direction, but told us about some sites we could view in Siracusa during our stay. We made an incredible pesto pasta paired with stuffed Zucchini and it was one of the best meals of the trip. not only that but she was made it very easy to communicate with beforehand to make sure we arrived at the right place! Would recommend this to any friend going traveling to Siracusa!
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Ishita
Apr 24, 2025
Authentic Sicilian Cooking Class with Terese - Highlight of Our Trip – And We’re Still Full!
If you're looking for an authentic, hands-on Sicilian cooking experience—and don't mind leaving with a full belly and a heart even fuller—this class is for you. We made two types of handmade pasta (yes, our arms got a workout), a mouthwatering parmigiana, and a classic dessert that may or may not have made us consider moving to Sicily permanently.
Our teacher, Terese, was an absolute gem: warm, hilarious, and clearly passionate about food and sharing her culture. She had the kind of culinary wisdom that can only come from a lifetime in the kitchen—and the patience of a saint (especially when watching us try to roll pasta like pros).
The whole experience was intimate, joyful, and delicious from start to finish. We laughed, we learned, we ate way too much. 10/10 would cook (and eat) again!
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H2280drdavids
Apr 6, 2025
Expert instruction for cooking Sicilian food in a welcoming home - Teresa as very welcoming into her home for our cooking class. She had a menu picked out that suited us well. We enjoyed preparing the meal along with her expert instructions. First time we have made pasta fro scratch. The food was wonderful and the atmosphere very well done with music, wine and a comfortable house. We enjoyed getting to know Teresa and now we have some great recipes to try to replicate at home- all recipes are provided to take with you.
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Culture07396793636
Jan 14, 2025
Wonderful experience - Teresa is a great chef! We had a great time learning to make fresh pasta and 2 pasta sauces. Great dresser made of oranges from her family farm. Highly recommend!
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B4239stmaureeng
Oct 29, 2024
Cooking, Culture, Community! - On our first day in Ortigia, Sicily, my friend and I took a cooking class with Teresa at her home. We are older women and joined with a honeymoon couple for this class. Teresa put us right to work making Cavatelli with Sicilian pesto, eggplant parmigiana, and cannoli. We started with the pasta and pesto from scratch, did most of the eggplant pie and finished with rolling the cannoli shells and preparing the salted ricotta and sugar for the filling. Teresa is a wonderful cook and teacher with a welcoming spirit and we learned so much about Sicily and its cuisine. The food we made was really good! We polished it off in her garden with some good wine and conversation. This was one of the best experiences of our visit to Sicily.
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Leoniel392
Oct 19, 2024
Delicious food and great company - The cooking class was incredibly fun, Teresa is just wonderful. The food was the best we had in Sicily. We can only recommend it to anyone.
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D2580atemilyh
Oct 13, 2024
Best Cooking Class in Sicily - Fantastic experience. Teresa was passionate, skillful, and kind. A fun and wonderful class. Lots of delicious food we got to prepare and vino to drink. Multiple authentic Sicilian dishes with beautiful scenery of the surrounding fauna and landscape. An experience you’ll never forget.
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Tommyr9533
Sep 22, 2024
A must do Sicilian cooking experience - This cooking experience with Teresa in her home and garden is as real as it gets. Family recipes that have been passed down through Sicilian generations, made with fresh, local, and seasonal ingredients. The food is, simply put, incredible-- something you could never find in a restaurant, and everyday is something different
Teresa shares these recipes, expertise, and techniques with passion and love for la cucina. And, there's homemade limoncello to cap it all off
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