Jaipur Cooking Class with a Local Family
Cook with us in our family home in Jaipur
3–4 hours | Vegetarian & non-vegetarian options | Prior booking required
A small, hands-on Indian cooking experience where you don’t just watch — you cook, eat and spend time with the family.
Join us at Veronica’s Retreat for a relaxed 3–4 hour cooking experience in our home in Jaipur.
Learn family-style North Indian cooking, explore Indian spices and traditional techniques, prepare parts of the meal yourself and finish by sitting down together to enjoy what you have cooked.
What you’ll experience
- Welcome – Arrive at Veronica’s Retreat and settle in with a welcome drink such as chai, lassi, lemonade, juice or buttermilk.
- Meet the family – Spend a little time getting to know your hosts and the home before beginning the cooking session.
- Discover Indian spices – Learn about the spices, masalas and ingredients commonly used in everyday Indian cooking.
- Cook together – Your hosts guide you through the recipes while you take part in the preparation yourself.
- Sit down and eat – Once the cooking is finished, sit together and enjoy the meal you’ve helped prepare.
- Talk, ask questions and share – The experience is as much about conversation and cultural exchange as it is about food.
Our cooking classes in Jaipur is a 3-4 hour experience only available on prior booking for people looking for gastronomic food experience in the beautiful pink city.
What can you learn to cook?
The class focuses on Indian home cooking style with a Rajput family in Jaipur. Along the way, you’ll be introduced to Indian spices, masala blends and cooking techniques, with plenty of time to ask questions and taste as you go.
Recipes may include:
Indian breads
Chapati, paratha and other everyday breads.
Vegetarian dishes
Dal, aloo gobhi, bhindi, pumpkin, carrot, paneer masala, baingan bharta, tinda and other seasonal dishes.
Non-vegetarian dishes
Egg masala and selected family meat recipes, depending on the menu chosen.
#Menus can vary according to season and guest preference. Please tell us about any dishes you’d particularly like to learn when booking.
What makes us best cooking classes in Jaipur is that we organically self grow a lot of things like grains, lentils, oil seeds (from which cold pressed oil is extracted), cumin, fennel and other locally grown spices. The family was agrarian before getting into different professions but we still practice farming and horticulture. Lastly the diversity of Home recipes that we have in both vegetarian and Non Vegetarian food choice is not only gourmet in nature but will help you take back memories.
From the family garden to the kitchen
Our relationship with food goes beyond cooking.
The family has an agrarian background, and we still practice farming and horticulture. Some of the ingredients and spices connected with our cooking traditions come from the way our family continues to grow and source food.
plant → spice → preparation → finished dish → family meal
Format & who it’s for
Our cooking class is a relaxed, interactive experience in the kitchen and garden at Veronica’s Retreat in Jaipur. Sessions last around 3-4 hours and are kept small, with up to 6 people, so couples, friends and families can all join comfortably.
You’ll start with a welcome drink and meet the family, take a short walk around the house to feel at home, learn about Indian spices and regional cuisines, then cook step by step with your hosts – including a “do it yourself” part where you prepare parts of the meal yourself. The evening ends with a shared dinner at the family dining table, with stories about Jaipur, Rajasthan and local life.
This experience is ideal for:
1. Couples – A relaxed way to spend part of a Jaipur trip together
2. Families – An interactive activity where adults and children can participate.
3. Solo travellers – A chance to meet a local family instead of attending a large commercial class.
4. Travellers staying elsewhere – You don’t have to stay at Veronica’s Retreat to join the cooking experience.
No prior cooking experience is needed – the family guides you gently through every step so anyone can enjoy and learn.
