Galle Fort cooking class
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Galle, Sri Lanka
- 1 hour 30 minutes (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Learn to cook like a local with this private cooking class in Galle Fort. Held in the back garden of a restaurant, learn to make several different Sri Lankan curry dishes, including a seafood dish, using traditional cooking methods and spices from the local spice shop. Afterwards, enjoy the dishes that you prepared.
- Private cooking class at Galle Fort
- Prepare and enjoy several different Sri Lankan curry dishes
- Includes a free recipe book to take home
- Enjoy the full attention of your instructor with a private class
Sample Menu
Main
Pumpkin curry
Served with rice
Main
Fried Mushroom
Main
Beetroot Curry
Main
Lentil Curry
Main
Fried Bean
Main
Sambal
Main
Prawns Curry
What's Included
- Lunch
- Dinner
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Galle Fort cooking class34 Middle St, Galle 80000, Sri Lanka
From the entrance of Galle Fort. You can choose lighthouse or middle street to find us. It inside the elita seafood restaurant
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.What To Expect
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Near public transportation
- Infants must sit on laps
- Transportation is wheelchair accessible
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Fantastic experience learning the basics of Sri Lankan cooking. Thoroughly enjoyed our time and all the curries cooked were delicious. Highly recommend taking the class. Only advice is to go hungry as it is a large quantity of food you get to eat 😋
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We really enjoyed the cooking class! The food was delicious and the information shared was very interesting. However, we expected it to be a bit more interactive. Instead of everyone having their own cooking station, we mostly helped with some chopping here and there rather than fully cooking the dishes ourselves. Still, it was a lovely experience overall.
Response from Host, Mar 2026
Thank you for the feedback! While individual workstations and a 90-minute timeframe make for a fast paced and challenging session, we strive to pack in as much value as possible. Our goal is to give you a true taste of Sri Lankan cuisine and the confidence to recreate these curries at home. We’re so glad you joined us, and thank you for feedback.
Fantastic experience learning the basics of Sri Lankan cooking. Thoroughly enjoyed our time and all the curries cooked were delicious. Highly recommend taking the class. Only advice is to go hungry as it is a large quantity of food you get to eat 😋
A great experience learning how to cook Sri Lankan curry. Sanju is a fabulous teacher we all participated with spices chopping vegetables, cooking different curries and then we got to eat our delights
Excellent introduction to Sri Lankan curry making. Our host was very welcoming and patient whilst explaining the art of Sri Lankan food preparation. We created 6 different dishes and each was delicious. Highly recommended experience for those who love cooking.
Fabulous time learning from Sanju - relaxing and happy. And the end result was six delicious dishes we got to enjoy!
This was a great experience for us and our three young children. It was highly interactive and Sanju does a great job to ensure everyone is able to participate in the preparation of the dishes. The duration of the lesson at 90 minutes is right on point. Enough time to enjoy the experience and the meal whilst still leaving plenty of time to explore Galle Fort.
The curries, in terms of flavour and ingredient combinations, are very different (better) to those that are available at most other hotels and restaurants. The ingredients and the flavours are spectacular. As was the setting. The cooking lessons are conducted in an outdoor kitchen in the garden behind the family's restaurant. It added real atmosphere to the experience.
Sanju was the most lovely person to teach this cooking class! I had the best time cooking with her and chatting with her family :) The food we made was the best I tried in Sri Lanka!!
Excellent cooking experience, we cooked 6 different dishes including prawn curry and pumpkin curry. The class was very hands on with good instruction. Once we had cooked everything we ate the food in there lovely restaurant. You are also given a recipe leaflet on many different Sri Lankan dishes. Excellent Experience with a lovely family.
The teacher was really nice and she explained everything very well. It was nice to have it outside, the place was pretty. We had a fun time learning about sri lankian food. After we got to eat the food we made in the restaurant with rice. I enjoyed it a lot! And we also got a recipe book we could bring back home which i really liked.
We enjoyed our local cooking class and learnt many simple tips that we will use in the future. In a short space of time we made 5 vegetable dishes and our lovely instructor made the final shrimp curry for us. An enjoyable and instructive session.
Make sure to check out the spice shop run by her husband.
Loved it and highly recommend to anyone staying in Galle! It was super interesting, cooked a of curries, very tasty, fresh ingredients and the teacher was such a sweet lady! 🫶
This was one of the highlights of my trip to Sri Lanka. Sanju was a wonderful teacher and taught me how to make the most delicious assortment of prawn and vegetarian curries! I really enjoyed this class, chatting with Sanju and her husband (who owns the spice shop so you can buy all the curry powders to take home!), and her recipes are truly fantastic. I definitely recommend this cooking class if you are in Galle!
My wife and I spent a lovely few hours with our host Sunju, learning how to make Sri Lankan curry. She made it really simple and we worked outdoors in the back garden which was great. In addition to our learning's, we then got to spend a wonderful hour eating what we had produced - and it was all really beautiful. I would highly recommend this cooking class.
Ein sehr liebevoll vorbereiteter Kochkurs. Gute Erklärung zu den unterschiedlichen Curry-Arten Sri Lankas. Wir konnten auch den Schärfegrad auf uns angepasst bestimmen. Das Ergebnis (6 Currys) hat hervorragend geschmeckt.
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