Pesto Sauce Class and dinner in Genoa

Genoa

Food&Wine

• Highlights
  • Learn the secrets of Ligurian cuisine
  • Cook traditional recipes with a local chef
  • Prepare the most famous Ligurian pasta sauce: pesto
  • Enjoy the fruit of your labor in a friendly atmosphere
  • Bring back home the recipes you have learned
• Full description

  Meet your host, a real Genoese, who has also lived abroad for a long time. She will be pleased to open her home to all curious travelers who want to experience a real Genoese dinner. You will start the lesson by preparing the most famous Ligurian pasta sauce: pesto. It traditionally consists of crushed garlic, European pine nuts, coarse salt, basil leaves, hard cheese such as Parmigiano-Reggiano all blended with olive oil.

  You will learn how to prepare home made Tagliatelle! Then focus on the second course (typically fried anchovies with artichokes). Finally, learn to prepare yummy Tiramisú dessert. Once the work is completed, you will enjoy the meal and the dish tasting with the chef. You will also learn to combine the local recipes with fine local Italian wine, which of course you will taste. After the lesson, you will receive a copy of all the recipes prepared with the chef. Get ready for an amazing experience in Genoa!

• Includes
  • 3 courses dinner (main pasta course, second course, dessert) 
  • Local wine, water, coffee 
  • Hands-on Cooking Class with the chef 
  • Recipes 
• Meeting Point
  
  Corso Firenze, 46, 16136 Genova GE
  
  
  
  
  

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