The Mexican Cooking Class & Market Tour in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca involves more than just simply following recipes. In other words really learn how to cook! By preparing authentic family favorites using hands-on techniques 100% from scratch.

We focus on ‘clean’ and healthy cuisine. By purchasing and using local organic whole foods! No artificial ingredients, no highly processed packaged ingredients, no deep fried foods.

The only cooking classes and market tours in Puerto Escondido led by a professional chef with nearly 4 decades of experience in Mexican Culinary Arts and 5 decades of Mexican Home Cooking.

Learn the insights into the creative process, the culinary and cultural history, practice the techniques, and understand the ‘why’ behind authentic Mexican cuisine. A true in depth experience, diving into the history and understanding with a real taste of Mexican culture and home cooking.

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Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, México.

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in the Mexican Cooking

Class and Local Market Tour

in Puerto Escondido.

 Individuals, Small Groups, and Families.  

Learn Authentic Mexican Home Cooking & Regional Mexican Food. 

What’s Included?

This cooking class includes, at no extra charge, the bonus of breakfast and the market tour. In this cooking class we prepare a delicious multi-course menu for family lunch, all hands on and made from scratch. This is a comprehensive hands-on authentic cooking class making family favorites. Remember if you’re not interested or available to join us for the breakfast and market tour, you can join us in the kitchen at 11 am when the actual cooking class starts.

The breakfast, market tour and cooking class includes the following.

1. A traditional Oaxaca breakfast and Mexican food history discussion.
2. The market tour and shopping for ingredients.
3. All the ingredients.
4. The cooking class itself. 
5. The cooking lessons throughout the day. 
6. Transportation from the market to the kitchen.
7. The delicious family style lunch we prepare during the cooking class. 
8. Freshly brewed custom blended local and freshly roasted organic coffee.
9. Refreshing nonalcoholic agua fresca.
10. Ice cold Mexican beer.
11. Tobalá mezcal, when available as it’s very rare. 
12. The authentic family recipes in pdf.
13. The Spotify list for the music we listen to during the cooking class. 

 

The only Mexican Cooking Class & Local Market Tour proudly LGBTQ+ owned and operated in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca.

Included as a Free Bonus to the Cooking Class. The local Mexican Market Tour offers an Insider Experience at the Local Benito Juarez Market in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca.

We start in the Mercado de Benito Juárez. Then walk to a local comedor / Mexican diner for a delicious Oaxaca breakfast. In the market we meet local vendors, experience the sights, sounds, and smells while exploring and shopping for local ingredients. We check out the unique chiles native to Oaxaca. Learn how to buy, prepare and utilize them. After we tour the local market we head into the kitchen to prepare a delicious family style lunch in the unique interactive hands-on authentic Mexican cooking class. *Learn more than just a recipe, learn the history, the ingredients, practice the techniques, and learn the ‘WHY’ behind traditional Mexican cooking and Mexican food!

The Mexican Cooking Class, an Authentic Hands-on Mexican Home Cooking Experience for over 15 years.

We prepare and create 100% from scratch a delicious Mexican multiple course family lunch in this unique Mexican cooking class. The menu is variable based on seasonal ingredients. For example a typical menu includes: two salsas, ceviche or aguachile, guacamole, a soup or salad, a main dish with appropriate side dishes, agua fresca, and dessert. For the main dish some of the possibilities and options are but not limited to could be; mole amarillo, mole verde, mole coloradito, estofadas, guisados, adobados, chiles rellenos, pipían verde with fresh fish, shrimp, chicken, beef, pork, beans, and or veggies. One of the most popular main dishes is home-style pork carnitas a crowd favorite. In addition we’ll create delicious sides dishes to complement the main dish which might include veggies, rice, and beans. We will also enjoy fresh fruits, locally made cheese, refreshing agua fresca and dessert.

Free Ice Cold Mexican Beer included during the cooking class and lunch!

A rare 100% Tobalá Mezcal included.

Vegetarian and Vegan options. Many of the dishes we prepare in the cooking class are already vegan and vegetarian.

You’ll get the authentic family recipes in PDF’s after the cooking class too!

*A Private Mexican Cooking Class is Tailored and Customized just for You and Your Group.

If you are not ready for a cooking class check out the Mexican Food Tour & Breakfast.

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Below is an Excerpt from enViva Magazine. Author Brian Overcast

Mi misión imposible: El mole

Un desafío más me esperaba en Puerto Escondido: aprender a hacer mole. Igual que con el surf, que nunca me imaginé capaz de practicar, jamás pensé que podría pasar de abrir un frasco de mole y agregarle caldo, a prepararlo desde cero.

“No sé por qué a este platillo le llaman mole amarillo; es más bien rojizo y anaranjado”, me comentó mientras salíamos al patio a cortar hoja santa para saltear el camarón. Todo fluía en esta cocina: los frijoles negros y el arroz estuvieron listos a tiempo, y me reí para mis adentros cuando me imaginé intentando lo mismo en mi cocina. Mejor disfrutar de este momento, y de la cremosa y tibia salsa de mole vertida sobre los jugosos camarones; una delicia con la nota picante perfecta.

“Invigorated by having successfully
flown across water on a board, I was
ready for my next challenge: making
mole. I headed to the market in Puerto
Escondido to meet my mole instructor,
Tony. First, he took me shopping, intently
examining each chili [sic]and vegetable.
In his personal kitchen, he chopped and
stirred and mixed away—everything
just flowed naturally, and I chuckled
just thinking about attempting this on
my own. Better just enjoy this moment,
I thought, as the creamy mole sauce
poured over the shrimp. And I did.”

Here are links to the Mexican Salsa Cooking Classes.

The Mexican Salsa Cooking Classes offer lessons concentrating on salsas.

Learn to Make Some Killer Salsas for Your Next Fiesta back home.