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3 Hour Moroccan Cooking Class
4.8
42 Ratings
Marrakech
Join a 3-hour Moroccan cooking class in Marrakech. Learn to cook authentic dishes, enjoy a tea ceremony, and support women’s empowerment.
Join a 3-hour Moroccan cooking class in Marrakech. Learn to cook authentic dishes, enjoy a tea ceremony, and support women’s empowerment.
Duration:
3 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
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Amal Cooking Classes & Catering - Targa - Experience the rich flavors and vibrant culture of Morocco with our authentic Cooking Class. Join our expert instructors for a hands-on, 3-hour cooking session where you will learn to prepare a traditional Moroccan dish of your choosing.
Amal is a non-profit training center dedicated to empowering women…
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Amal Cooking Classes & Catering - Targa - Experience the rich flavors and vibrant culture of Morocco with our authentic Cooking Class. Join our expert instructors for a hands-on, 3-hour cooking session where you will learn to prepare a traditional Moroccan dish of your choosing.
Amal is a non-profit training center dedicated to empowering women through culinary training, and when you join us for the Cooking Class, you are supporting this vital mission.
We can’t wait to host you, we put our heart and soul into making this unforgettable culinary experience!
What's Included
- Lunch
- Tea and coffee
- Bottled water
- Lunch
- Tea and coffee
- Bottled water
Meal Options
- Chicken tajine with preserved lemon - A classic tajine with a satisfying lemon zing!
- Beef tajine with prunes and almonds - Sweet, sticky prunes and crunchy deep fried almonds complement the savory beef cooked in a delicious sauce.
- Chicken tajine with preserved lemon - A classic tajine with a satisfying lemon zing!
- Beef tajine with prunes and almonds - Sweet, sticky prunes and crunchy deep fried almonds complement the savory beef cooked in a delicious sauce.
Additional Information
Your hosts at the Amal Center will help you recreate authentic Moroccan dishes cooked the traditional way. Choose from a variety of favorite tajines including chicken with preserved lemon, beef or lamb with prunes and almonds, fish or vegetarian. You can even make sophisticated chicken pastilla or couscous for a small extra fee. The best part - besides…
Your hosts at the Amal Center will help you recreate authentic Moroccan dishes cooked the traditional way. Choose from a variety of favorite tajines including chicken with preserved lemon, beef or lamb with prunes and almonds, fish or vegetarian. You can even make sophisticated chicken pastilla or couscous for a small extra fee. The best part - besides the amazing food - is that you are helping support a valuable non-profit cause: empowering women from disadvantaged backgrounds through culinary training and job placement. Our cooking class setting is one-of-a-kind, with a dedicated workshop in our beautiful, peaceful garden, an oasis of peace in a busy city! During the class, while our tajines simmer over charcoal, we’ll have a traditional Moroccan tea ceremony. It is a chance to be together and talk about the work Amal has been doing over the last 11 years to empower women and serve the community.
- Please select a tajine you’d like to make
Location
Amal Cooking Classes & Catering - Targa
All classes are held at our Amal Targa location. Take a taxi and ask for "Association Amal" in the Targa neighborhood.
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
4.8
(42 Ratings)
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If832
Jun 9, 2025
A wonderful experience with country and people - The cooking class was one of my best experiences in Morocco! Lovingly provided ingredients, everyone could cook a dish of their choice, I made a pastilla! Even the premises are a pleasure! The guidance from the Moroccan women was professional and at the same time very personal! During the cooking time there was a very atmospheric tea ceremony. Every step was celebrated! We have harvested the herbs ourselves in the project's own garden. This was accompanied by Moroccan pastries, which are being created in the project. The initiative supports -extremely successfully- women from difficult backgrounds who find women after 4-6 months as a rule. Work or can start your own business! What a hopeful prospect. The explanations of the project impress! There is also a strong commitment to earthquake victims, whose products are traded fairly!
We ate our different dishes together at the end! The different tajine, couscous and pastilla were the best thing I ate in Morocco. The participating people from different countries have quickly become a nice community with lively exchanges! You can also “only” go there for dinner! Surely a nice experience too!
A big thank you to all the women of Amal! I would recommend everyone who is in Marrakesh to visit this project!
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Cheery0
May 9, 2025
Just Right - This was a great experience and a great introduction to Moroccan cooking. The class was well organized. The kitchen was set up nicely for a class. The staff provided just the right amount of help to make sure our dish came out nicely. These are great people and a great organization. It feels good to support their mission by taking the class. We also met a great group of fellow students. And of course the grand finale, lunch with the gang having the food we had just cooked. It was very nice.
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Bechabbick
Apr 25, 2025
Wonderful experience - This was a wonderful experience recommended from a friend. I would highly suggest doing it! It was great to connect with everyone.
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Tsr123123
Apr 23, 2025
Amal Cooking A MUST DO in Marrakech! - We adored our experience at Amal. Ghita and all of the team were so welcoming. The class itself was fun, relaxed, inclusive, informative but most of all delicious!! We met some nice people and learned many important things about the Moroccan culture and the purpose of the Amal Centre. The women here are truly worth supporting. You are literally helping to change lives by doing this brilliant class!
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Suzannehb999ko
Apr 16, 2025
A must do in Marrakesh - A wonderful 1/2 day spent at Amal. Not only do you get to cook a tasty meal but they put on a tea ceremony and the ladies are very welcoming. You get to know the history of the organisation and the great things they are doing in the region.
Would totally recommend.
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Shadowyman
Apr 14, 2025
A Unique Experience of both Culture and Cuisine - Wow! What an amazing experience.
On our first trip to Morocco we made this cooking lesson part of getting better insights into the "real" food of the land. But we left with far more than that.
The cooking part of the experience was very well organized and very much hands-on. From prep through actually stoking the fires, we very much cooking these dishes, under the firm but friendly guidance of our instructor. Depending on the dish, the process took a bit longer, as it did with one of our dishes (Chicken Pastilla) and another family's (Vegetarian Couscous). But the cooking was only one aspect of the total experience.
We also learned about the intricacies of making Moroccan Tea, the history and mission of AMAL, the culture of cuisine in Morocco, and also met a really diverse group of other participants from Canada, the UK, the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia. As we sat down at the end to break bread and eat our creations, these strangers all became part of our little family for one brief afternoon.
So Yes, go there for the cooking lessons. But be prepared for a far richer experience than just that. You will leave this special place feeling fulfilled in more way than one.
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Chris98765432
Mar 21, 2025
Ideal to learn the secrets of tagine while support local women into work. - We had a fabulous morning with the ladies of Amal learning to make tagine. It's definitely worth the trip out of the Medina to cook outside in the courtyard. While the are plenty of cooking classes available, this organisation supports local women into careers in catering. They could double this price and I would still have thought it was good value. Everyone in the class cooks their own dish, we choose lamb tagine with vegetables. Followed by a tea ceremony explaining the wonders of mint teas, we were pouring like pros from here on out. With the added bonus of getting to taste everyone else's when you sit down to eat a group lunch. Thoroughly recommended.
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Vespa31
Mar 9, 2025
Educational and Fun Experience - We were able to take this cooking class at the end of our 10-day vacation throughout Morocco. I would highly recommend it. First of all, the location is beautiful - a little bit outside of the hustle and bustle of the more touristy areas of Marrakech. It was peaceful and beautiful. If you are renting a car, there is ample parking. If you are planning to take a taxi, arrange for them to pick you up after your class too - trying to find a taxi after was challenging. The women teaching the class are so kind and prepared. They love sharing their culture and traditions. After enjoying tea throughout the country it was wonderful to learn all the steps that go into preparing it! It also felt great to support a non-profit that is doing incredible and life-changing work. About half of our group was very late, so we got started without them which created a bit a disjointed and chaotic experience when they did finally show up, but in hindsight, if we all had been in the class together, it would have been very crowded in the demo kitchen. The delayed start also made this experience longer than the 3 hours noted on their website, but we were happy to stick around longer enjoying time on their patio.
It was wonderful to receive the recipes as well. This was one of the best tagines we had and I'm excited to recreate it at home!
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F4783fwbeatriced
May 2, 2025
Wonderful cooking experience with social meaning for the community - It was a wonderful experience to learn how to cook maroccan dishes. And the association is doing a great job for the community. It's really important to support them. Too bad we have to choose a single dish instead of cooking a salad and a main dish. And a big table for all the group together, to share all the food, would have been appreciated. But we highly recommend the activity.
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I7989yxsarat
Apr 23, 2025
Not a "cooking class" -sadly wouldnt recommend but do visit their restuarant in Gueliz to support their mission. - Sadly would not recommend. Great mission and do support them at their restaurant in Gueliz but I cannot recommend the cooking class... It has such good reviews but our experience was a total waste of time... only cooked for 30 minutes. It started 45 minutes late (no explanation) went late by 1.5+ hrs, and had a very long gap of over 1 hr while the tagines cooked that we all just sat around and no instruction. Again zero explanation.... (had they suggested to bring a book and enjoy the courtyard, we would have been happy to do so). Yes our tagine was good but no sides or anything to go with it. Staff was very unorganized and although the girls were nice, they were very disruptive amongst themselves when the instructor was speaking -- many many times......... Bummer! wanted to love this experience but wouldnt recommend this class.
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