Our Cooking Class and Traditional Dinning Tours are led by female Guides and chefs providing insights into traditional Ugandan cuisine, allowing travelers to engage in the cooking process. You will learn about the Ugandan cuisines from the best female guides right from shopping in the market, the traditional dinning and serving the meal to eat. This involves going to the local market for shopping, take an Uber taxi to home for preparations.
The most interesting part is when you start learning about how to peel the matooke, learn how to prepare it in the saucepan, cook it, and make the sauce too. Make the juice and then prepare the dining area in a traditional way. Then serve the food and enjoy our meal.
Meet our Female Guide at the Gaddafi National Mosque main gate which is located in the centre of Kampala City. We will take a walk down to Owino market for Shopping. Owino market is the biggest in Kampala known as a second hand market that also sells fresh food. We shall move to the section of food to do shopping of the food that will be cooked at home like Matooke, potatoes, banana leaves, onions, tomatoes, groundnuts to mention a few. After shopping the guide will request for an Uber that will drive you home where preparations will take place.
The location of the home where preparations will be carried from is 4km away from Owino market. You will be welcome to the guide's home as she would have informed the rest of the people at her home about the cooking class tour.
The guide will dress up for preparations. This will be a class tour learning how to peel matooke and potatoes. There, you will have a chance to engage in the activity of peeling as you also learn how it is done.
A demonstration on how matooke are tied in banana leaves, add potatoes on top them, cover them with other banana leaves, put greens top of them, then add more banana leaves and food is ready to put on the charcoal stove.
Next is observing how to make fire on a charcoal stove. We then put the saucepan on the charcoal stove for food to Cook.
We get another charcoal stove where the groundnuts will be cooked from. Demonstrate how the groundnuts are dissolved then poured in boiled water on the charcoal stove. Will be left to boil until it is ready. It should be ready at the same time the food is.
The next activity is juice making. We shall wash the fruits say mangoes, passions or watermelon, cut them in pieces and put into a juicer. We then squeeze the juice and put into a jug as we are waiting for the food to get ready.
Playing local games at home like skipping and many others. There will also be entertainment from the people at home like dances, singing and many more as we are waiting for the food to get ready.
Preparation of the traditional dinning. This involves laying mats on ground where the guest or guests will sit for dinning and a small table mat where food will be served.
Home where food is prepared and served from. End of our Cooking Class and Traditional Dinning Tour
What's included on your Cooking Class and Traditional Dinning Tour
- Guide fee.
- Private transportation (take Uber taxi) from the market to home where cooking classes take place.
- Shopping fee for food items.
- Soft drinks that is the juice.
What's not included on our Cooking Class and Traditional Dinning Tour
- Drop off charges to your hotel.
- Extra shopping for the fruits.
- Public transportation fees that is, motorcycle or mini vans. The prices for motorcycles are negotiable according to the distance.
Tour Important Information while on your Cooking Class and Traditional Dinning Tour
- The market opens at 6:00am. So you cannot visit before that time.
- The tour involves a little bit of walking. Make sure you wear comfortable shoes.
- Advised to carry some cash in case you need to buy some fruits from the market that you would want to take home.
- Please let me know in advance if you have any food allergies or other dietary restrictions.
