Cooking Class - Intro to Sri Lankan Cuisine

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Join Sri Lankan-native, Chef Gagana, and discover the flavors and ingredients epitomizing the country's cuisine.

In this hands-on class with Chef Gagana, you will learn how to prepare an authentic five-course Sri Lankan menu using both familiar and exotic ingredients, and traditional Sri Lankan cooking techniques that create bold, powerful flavor profiles that get the adrenaline pumping.

Some of the dishes you can look forward to learning how to create in this class include a Sri Lankan-spiced roasted bone-in chicken, a soul-warming tempered red lentil curry, fragrant rice perfumed with cloves and cardamom, sweet and jammy caramelized onions, Sri Lankan-style pineapple, and so much more!

Guests are welcome to bring wine and beer to enjoy during the class.

Roasted Spiced Chicken

With garlic

Sautéed Green Beans

With garlic, onions and spices

Masoor Dhal Tempered Curry

With onions, dried chiles, mustard seed, optional coconut milk, and turmeric

Fragrant Rice With Caramelized Onions

With cloves, cardamom and garlic

Sri Lankan Style Pineapple

With chili powder, salt and sugar

Most dietary restrictions can be accommodated if noted prior to the event. Please mention this in the message field when you submit your booking request as adjustments to recipes cannot be made during class.

Minimum Guests 2
Maximum Guests 6
Meal Courses 4
Event Duration 3 hours
Labels Asian, Couples, Date Night, Fun

Reviews guests left for this experience

Leah

20 Jan 2020

We thoroughly enjoyed Chef Gagana's Sri Lankan cuisine class, the meal was amazing! Chef Gagana is very friendly and generous with his knowledge. He gave us the recipe for his own spice mix to use at home, as well as the recipe of everything we made. We expected it to be more hands on, however, it was more of an observation class. This did not bother us because Chef Gagana is very engaging and was teaching us the whole time. We feel confident that we can replicate this meal at home!

Reviews guests left for other experiences with Chef Gagana

Kiko

26 Feb 2020

Chef Gagana was both incredibly knowledgeable and very engaging! Didn't hurt that the food was delicious!

Wayne

07 Jan 2020

Chef Gagana is an amazing chef. Beautiful display of the food. The prep work was very interesting and helpful. Sauces and seasonings were wonderful. Simple, yet outstanding dinner.

Kristen

06 Jan 2020

We had such a fun experience. The food was delicious. Chef Gagana was a patient, clear and thorough teacher. My father and I both left feeling like we can actually make these recipes. The fruit dessert at the end was a perfect way to cap off the meal. Chef Gagana also emailed us ahead of time with clear instructions on easily getting to the location.

Kayako Mae

11 Dec 2019

Spices! Using unfamiliar spices can be intimidating sometimes. I have cooked with some spices for making some Indian dishes before, but I didn’t have ability to try different spices or spice combination until Chef Gagana walked me through with spices! Chef Gagana taught me how to cook with them as well as what kind of flavors they produce when they are cooked. I really enjoyed Chef Gagana’s class. I can’t wait to try using some spice combinations that I learnt and I look forward to impress my family and friends with new flavors!

Reviews Chef Gagana received outside of Cozymeal

Jason

18 Dec 2019

I’ve been fortunate enough to experience a wide range of cuisine prepared by Chef Gagana. From his tandoori spiced chicken all the way to a simple basmati rice he is able to put a part of his own sense of style to every dish. His knowledge of flavors and spices from his Sri Lankan heritage mixed with the techniques learned while training in France have led to creations that delight both the palate and the eye every time. Some of my fondest memories are getting to try new dishes as he was perfecting them. When he makes a dish he settles for nothing less than excellence. This extends to finding just the right banana leaves to wrap his kalua pork, the perfect coffee flavor for his rubbed flank steak, and the specific chilies he would use with his vegetables. While he is a master with proteins, let me tell you one dish that I always think about whenever I remember his meals…..Basmati rice with caramelized onions. It seems so simple but is so hard to get perfect, trust me I’ve tried. Getting the onions slowly cooked down until they become more of a jam bringing out their natural sweetness that often gets overlooked in other preparations takes skill and patience. When added to the soft long grain of a good basmati rice the effect is extraordinary. Chef Gagana understands that if you take the time to source good product and treat it with respect and skill the results will follow. I must have eaten pounds of brisket when he was mastering the use of his new smoker but I’m not complaining one bit. I feel honored and privileged to have met the man and my own culinary journey around the world has certainly been enhanced by his dedication to the craft he has spent a lifetime mastering.