Genoa Authentic Pasta Fresca Cooking Class

Learn to make authentic Italian pasta fresca with a local chef in Genoa. Discover Italian culinary traditions and learn typical grandma recipes. Taste the fruits of your labor in a convivial atmosphere.

Meeting Point

Vico Inferiore Valoria, 1

Vico Inferiore Valoria, 1, 16123 Genova GE, Italy

What's included:

• Cooking class

What to expect:

Genoa

Pasta Fresca is one of the Italian masterpieces, get ready to learn to prepare it with a friendly local chef in Genoa. Enter is home located in the historic city center and enjoy the stunning view from the terrace overlooking the city.
You will start the lesson by preparing the most famous Ligurian pasta sauce: pesto. It traditionally consists of crushed garlic, European pine nuts, coarse salt, basil leaves, hard cheese such as Parmigiano-Reggiano all blended with olive oil.
You will prepare the dough of pasta, flavor, water, eggs for a delicious dish. The secret is mixing raw ingredients with passion and grandma recipes is the best way to create delicacies; you will learn to do it with your family and friends.
Get cooking tips while rolling the dough and then shape it.
Once the work is completed, take a seat and enjoy the fruits of your labor in a convivial atmosphere. In addition you will taste an atipasto, a traditional Genoese dessert, while toasting with a local wine and finishing with a typical Genoese liqueur
The apartment is on the 5th floor in a historic palace, it doesn't have elevator!.

Sample Menu

MAIN
Pasta Fresca
Picagge- traditional Ligurian pasta similar to wide tagliatelle

MAIN
Pesto

DESSERT
Traditional Genoese dessert

STARTER
Genoese focaccia, Focaccette di patate, torte salate