Top Mumbai Cooking Classes

During this cooking class in Mumbai, get a hands-on experience of every step in the food-making process so you can recreate Indian dishes back home. Visit the local outdoor market and get a chance to pick fresh ingredients. Then, head to your instructor’s home to be shown how to prepare up to three Punjabi dishes. The lesson will be followed by a sit-down meal.

Learn to cook Indian food from your home with this private virtual class live from Mumbai. Interact in real time with instructors based in Mumbai, choosing one main course and one dessert to prepare. A list of ingredients is provided beforehand so you can cook along during the class, enjoying a personalized experience with hotel pickup included.

Enjoy a cultural exchange with an Indian family during a private class in a local home. Learn about fragrant spices and traditional cooking techniques. Take home recipes so you can recreate your experience any time. Choose from a menu of classic dishes, including paranthas, sag paneer, chapattis, raita and masala. Sit down to a meal with your hosts before returning to your hotel.

Learn to layer spices and flavors like a professional with a private Indian cooking class in Mumbai. Whip up classics such as paneer and paranthas—plus chicken and fish for non-vegetarians—while your teacher provides insight into local customs and culture. Enjoy your meal at the end of the class, and then transfer back to your Mumbai hotel or the port with included transportation.

Vegetarian cooking classes can be hard to come by, especially when you’re looking for one to do from home. This Indian vegetarian cuisine virtual cooking class is a great choice for anyone looking to add some delicious Mumbai-inspired dishes to their plate. Connect with your instructor live on Skype, straight from our home kitchen in Mumbai's largest slum, and learn the ins and outs of whipping up popular favorites such as mattar paneer. Meet our family, learn about our culture, our home, and our delicious food.

While visiting Mumbai, join Chef Reshma at her home to learn to prepare a thali meal. Visit the market with your host to discover the main ingredients in Indian dishes, then cook 2-3 Maharashtrian dishes together in her kitchen, concluding with dessert and coffee or chai. You'll experience warm hospitality and authentic cuisine during this private half-day experience that concludes with a delicious dinner.

Dig deeper into vegan Indian cuisine than possible from menus or cookbooks on this private Mumbai market tour and home-cooking experience. Explore a spice and produce market with a mother-and-daughter pair of local home cooks. Then, visit their apartment to watch a cooking demo and savor their favorite plant-based dishes, such as sweet potato chaat, lentils with brown rice, and kheer (rice pudding) with coconut milk.

Parsis are one of the smallest minority groups in India, and through this fun, hands-on cooking class you can learn more about their culture than you possibly could alone. Your instructor is an experienced home cook, and she’ll teach you how to make a variety of meat and seafood-heavy Parsi favorites. Afterwards, sit down with her to enjoy the dishes you made. Choose between lunch and dinner for extra flexibility.

Learn to prepare an authentic Bengali meal and visit a local market with an expert home cook. Abhinanda lives in Andheri West with her husband and son in a contemporary apartment. Abhinanda will take you to her local market and teach you about regional produce. Then you will return to her home and spend time in the kitchen together, creating a delicious Bengali feast. Enjoy the meal together at her dining table with Abhinanda and her family, when they are available. If you are only interested in the cooking class but not the market tour, choose the cooking class only option. This is a unique opportunity to learn to cook with a Mumbai local in her kitchen. You'll leave with new cooking skills, a full stomach, and a new friend in Mumbai!

Some of these pickles and chutneys are easy to learn and replicate with ingredients that are locally available across the world. You get to learn a new skill and surprise your friends and relatives when you reach back home.

Enjoy a private cooking lesson in a local home in Powai, north Mumbai. Your host is Rachna, a dedicated foodie and home-cook. When she was 14 years old she learned to cook her first dish: Spanish omelet. It’s still one of her favorite dishes, aside from the recipes she learned from her mother. Rachna comes from Patna, in northern India, and swears by the aromatic flavors of their cuisine, which she replicates in her cooking by using home-ground spices. Cooking is a stress-buster for Rachna and she loves to be in the kitchen. Rachna will teach you to prepare authentic North Indian dishes in her kitchen. You'll learn some of her favorite recipes and then enjoy the meal together at her dining table.

Kajal is the chef and she’s based in Mumbai. Coming from a traditional Indian family, she learned cooking these authentic recipes from her mother and her older sister. In 2017 she started food tours. In this cooking class, you’ll learn how to make a traditional paratha and masala tea. Indian tea also known as chai is milky & rich, deeply colored, very hot, and boldly flavourful with a need for sugar to offset the toasty bitterness. The Masala Tea (Chai) is delicious Indian milk tea made with a blend of spices such as ginger. Parathas are the highly popular unleavened flat-breads made with flour, salt, butter, and water and are eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner in India. As we are bringing this authentic experience to you from our small home in India, we hope you understand that we are not able to deliver professional-level videography, but will do our absolute best to bring you an incredible cooking experience and share our culture with you!

Learn to cook Indian food during a private cooking class in a local’s home. Discover methods, ingredients, and cultural significance of regional cuisines from a home chef. Cook dishes like chicken tikka masala, fish curry, biryani, and chapati, customizing the menu to your taste. Enjoy a hearty lunch of your cooked delicacies with your host, with roundtrip hotel transportation included.

Experience authentic Indian vibes, the warmth of local hospitality, and the magic of chai and pakoras in a family home. Be welcomed with a traditional Indian greeting, complete with a tika and mala. Learn about Indian spices, teas, and ingredients used in chai and pakora preparation. Discuss the benefits of seasonal Indian teas and enjoy a little chat about traditions, culture, and the fascinating stories of how tea became part of Indian life. Step into the home kitchen and prepare masala chai and pakoras with the beloved green chutney. Enjoy your chai and pakoras in a cozy, traditional setup while sharing stories and laughter. Depart with cherished memories and the confidence to recreate this experience for your loved ones back home. Whether you're a tea lover or new to chai, you’ll leave with a piece of India in your heart.

What sets this experience apart is the opportunity to cook a complete North Indian meal from scratch in a real Mumbai home, guided step-by-step by Bijal. Guests don’t just follow a recipe, they learn how to confidently use Indian spices, understand flavour balance and recreate dishes back home. The class is intentionally small and highly interactive, so every guest gets personal guidance in Bijal’s home kitchen. Even after the experience, guests can reach out for recipe support and cooking tips, making this a practical, skill-building experience that stays with them long after their trip to Mumbai.

You will get to eat dishes that you can never eat outside a traditional South Indian home. No restaurant serves this kind of food, and most ingredients we use would surprise you! We are a vegetarian household preserving traditional recipes, and the experience can be accommodated to people who are plant-based. You will also get to use unique tools for coconut cutting, coconut shaving, steaming, etc. Given our global experiences, we will also help you make connections between our cuisine and your own, and help you adapt what you learn to where you live. We want you to learn our recipes and re-create them in your homes!

Step into a local Mumbai home and experience Indian culture through its food. This hands-on cooking class is designed for travelers who want more than just a recipe you’ll cook, eat, and connect like a local. Under the guidance of a friendly local host, learn how traditional Indian dishes are prepared using fresh ingredients, aromatic spices, and time honored techniques passed down through generations. You’ll actively participate in cooking multiple dishes, understand the balance of spices, and discover everyday Indian kitchen secrets. After cooking, sit down together and enjoy an unlimited home-style Indian meal, freshly prepared by you and the host. Guests are welcome to take second servings and truly enjoy the flavors at a relaxed pace, just like an Indian family meal. This experience is perfect for food lovers, cultural explorers, couples, families, and solo travelers looking for an authentic and memorable Mumbai experience.

With the help of your host, a local home cook, you will get a hands-on cooking experience and learn new techniques used in Indian cooking in an airconditioned kitchen. You can prepare and enjoy Vegetarian Street foods made hygienically at home like Samosas, Vada-Pav , Chaat , Mumbai Masala Sandwich , Dosa , Pav bhaji , Jalebi etc.(Options to be selected at the time of booking or atleast 48 hours before the activity) Vegans are welcome. Let us know in advance if you have any dietary restrictions.