Cooking class in Genoa - Do Eat Better Experience
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3 hours (approx.)
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Offered in: English and 1 more
Good for avoiding crowds
Overview
Get an introduction to the local culinary styles of Genoa in this introductory cooking class. A professional chef will guide you in the preparation and the history of the three typical dishes, you will conclude your cooking lesson with a delicious lunch with the products you prepared.
In this cooking class you will learn the preparation of these traditional foods:
- Genovese Pesto, the worldwide known sauce, made of fresh basil’s leaves grounded with pine nuts and other ingredients in a marble mortar with a wooden or marble pestle.
- Fugassa cö formaggio, a typical delicacy with an ancient origin back to 12th century from the area of Camogli and Recco. You will be guided by the chef in the preparation and the stretching of the dough in two thin layers that you will fill with prescinsêua, a typical soft cheese.
- Canestrelli, a local flower-shaped biscuit with a hole in the center. This mouth-melting cookies are simple but tasty traditional sweets, something not to miss!
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Gnocchi or Testaroli
handmade fresh pasta, prepared togerher with the Chef. Super tasty, especially is served with their ad hoc sauce: the pesto.
Pesto
classic basil Pesto sauce was born in Genoa. You will have the chance to taste the authentic recipe made of local fresh basil and pine nuts!
Focaccia with cheese
2 very thin layers of dough filled with "Stracchino", (a typical soft cheese from Recco, a small village next to Genoa).
Dessert
Canestrelli
handmade biscuits from Torriglia (small village on the beautiful hills behind Genova). Shaped as small flowers and prepared with simple ingredients
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- "We highly recommend to take this class for everyone who wants to have a fun time in Genua." See review
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