Pure Plant-Based Vegan Balinese Cooking Class in Organic Garden - 8 Course Feast

What to Expect

You will learn recipes found only in a traditional Balinese family compound where the head of the house is a passionate cook such as Adi.   

Start by chopping and pounding spices that you pick from our organic gardens to make Adi’s secret Balinese Spice Paste that he learned as a child from his grandfather and refined as an adult.

With your complete spice paste, you will create authentic Balinese dishes using variations of the paste - for example – raw paste to mix with tofu to be roasted, lightly sautéed paste for rich coconut curries and caramelized paste for fresh organic green salads.  

Each of you will have your very own cooking station. You will cook at least 2 salads, 3 mains, 1 dessert and several spicy sambals. The classes are fully hands on where you will cook all dishes together to be shared as a Balinese feast.

You will also make key staples such as fried chilies, finely sliced fried shallots and garlic and grated roasted coconut and learn about pantry items such as Balinese sea salt, homemade coconut oil and shrimp paste.

The class is maximum of 10 cooks with a minimum age of 13 years old with solid cooking and ability to handle a knife safely.

Menu

Pure- Plant Balinese Vegan Ceremonial Menu

Vegan 9-Course Lunch Feast: No meat, no dairy, no eggs, no gluten except for a bit of soya sauce

You'll learn 15 step-by-step recipes including our secret Balinese spice pastes. You'll cook a massive 8-course ceremonial lunch feast, not found anywhere else on this island:

• Adi’s Base Ganep (Complete Balinese Spice Paste - Vegan) - our ceremonial spice paste with 17 ingredients, many that you pick from our organic gardens, vegan
• Base Rajang (Fragrant Spice Paste) - a lighter spice paste perfect for vegetables and tofu
• Base Kacang - homemade peanut sauce
• Sambal Goreng - a traditional staple in every Balinese Family Compound
• Sambal Tomat - rich and deep tomato spice paste of Lombok chillies straight from our gardens
• Homemade Coconut Milk - Freshly extracted from coconuts, harvested from our mature coconut tree
• Jukut Mecantok - Organic greens including amaranth, snake beans, cabbage, carrot, and baby mung bean sprouts with your very own homemade peanut sauce
• Urab Salad - Organic greens (depends on what’s fresh) including wild ferns, gonna (indigenous vegetable) and baby mung bean sprouts with roasted coconut, kaffir lime juice and golden shallots
• Kelor, Jepang dan Labu Mesanten - Green Moringa leaves, Chayote and Pumpkin Curry
• Tempe Manis - Sweet and spicy tempe matchsticks
• Pepes Tahu – Tofu and spicy handmade tomato sambal wrapped and grilled in banana leaves
• Sate Tahu - Skewered tofu satay marinated with the traditional spice paste, and coconut oil and grilled over coconut husks
• Jagung Bakar (Balinese Roast Corn on the Cob) - Spicy whole cobs of corn roasted over smoky coconut husks
• Babur Injin (Black Sticky Rice Pudding) with tropical jackfruit, mango and homemade coconut cream

Schedule

• 8:30 am: Meet at Tresna Bali Cooking School
• 8:35 am: Refreshments and Organic Garden Tour
• 9:15 am: Hands-On Cooking Lesson of 15 Step-by-step Authentic Balinese Vegan Recipes
• 12:30 pm: 9-course Balinese Vegan Lunch Feast
• 2:00 pm: End of class

If you are a solo traveler and interested to join this class, please book here