Swahili Cooking Lesson

Learn to cook traditional Swahili dishes and bring some of the taste of Zanzibar back home where you can wow your friends and family with your new skills. Local cooking classes offer you an authentic, hands-on experience in a real Zanzibar kitchen – here you will learn a lot about the use of all the exotic spices Zanzibar is so famous for. There is no better way to get to know a culture then by learning how to cook a traditional meal.

You can participate in a family cooking workshop or join one of the daily cooking classes of the Jafferji House & Spa (max 4 people). Shopping for all the ingredients at the local market and learning to cook various Zanzibar style dishes gives you a good inside into daily life. You choose the dishes you would like to cook and you might surprise yourself by making tasty chapati, cooking a delicious coconut curry or yummy pilau rice.

It’s a great experience to cook these swahili dishes – but the best is to taste them all afterwards!