Cretan Cooking Class And Dinner: Evening In A Rethymno Home

Menu & tasting

Learn to cook like a local with your host, Androniki, in her home in the hills of one of the most beautiful islands in Greece, for a truly wonderful experience of fantastic Greek hospitality! Experience a magical evening learning how to cook Greek and local Cretan dishes outdoors with your host's amazing wood oven and using homegrown produce including fresh vegetables and olive oil! Discover the fundamentals behind making classic Greek dishes like kremidokalitsouna, Chortopities and Sfakianes pites utilising Androniki’s expert home techniques, to transform you into the ultimate dinner party host back home! After you’re done cooking, you’ll sit down and enjoy what you’ve cooked together. Try the Raki that Androniki and her husband make at home. This fiery spirit packs quite the punch! Expect plenty of food and delicious Greek wine, traditional Greek hospitality and great company! And take away amazing recipes that you can make in your own kitchen.

• Raki or Greek coffeestarter
• Cheese piesstarter
• Kremidokalitsounastarter

  Small pies with onions

• Chortopitesstarter

  Small pies with many (10-12) different wild greens

• Sfakianes pitesstarter

  Pies with home made cheese

• Greek Saladstarter

  Greek salad with home made barley rusk, tomatoes, cucumber, green pepper, onion, caper, kritamo, olives, and off course enough olive oil.

• Dolmadakiastarter

  Stuffed vine leaves, zucchini flowers with rice, vegetables, herbs and olive oil

• Moussakamain

  The famous Greek dish (potatoes, zucchini, aubergines, minced meat in tomatoes sauce, béchamel)

• Giouvetsimain

  Rooster with orzo in the wood oven (traditional Sunday dish)

• Greek yogurt or homemade ice cream with sweet spoon or a local sweetdessert