Genova World Champion Pesto Cooking Class

The only World Champion to reveal her recipe and secrets in a cooking class;
Prepare your Pesto and Walnut Sauce by mortar and taste them with a typical Ligurian menu;
Use a Carrara marble mortar and a vintage olive wood pestle with more than 100 years;
Taste a typical menu of Ligurian tradition, consisting DA Genoese focaccia with pesto, handmade pansoti with walnut sauce, Genoese pandolce, wine, liqueurs and Italian grappa;
Live a unique experience in an authentic location surrounded by greenery: garden in summer and heated outdoor in winter.

Meeting Point

Viale Giorgio Modugno, 16

Viale Giorgio Modugno, 16, 16156 Genova GE, Italy

We will wait for you 5 minutes before the start at the meeting point, for any problem do not hesitate to call or write to us, we will be at your disposal!
To make your experience even more comfortable, we are available to arrange transportation service: please contact us.

What's included:

• Genoese Pesto and Walnut Sauce lesson with mortar gui DAta by Camilla Pizzorno, World Champion;
• Final recipe of the World Champion in PDF DA take home;
• We are available to arrange transport service : contact us.
• A small gift for you;
• Photos and videos of the experience;

What to expect:

Viale Giorgio Modugno, 16

The only cooking class in which a World Champion, Camilla Pizzorno, winner of the World Mortar Pesto Championship, reveals her recipe and makes you taste a Ligurian menu.
1. You will be welcomed in a typical Ligurian garden surrounded by greenery during the summer, or in a heated outdoor area in winter. We will begin by learning to recognize the quality and role of the ingredients of Genoese pesto.
2. With a 100-year-old Carrara marble mortar and an olive wood pestle, Camilla will guide you in the preparation of pesto. You will crush and mix the ingredients by hand, to create the right color and texture.

3. We will taste the freshly prepared pesto, served with the typical Genoese focaccia.

4. We will continue the experience by preparing the walnut sauce by mortar, an ancient and today rare recipe made by mortar DA.

5. You will taste the walnut sauce with a plate of pansoti, typical fresh local pasta.

6. The tour will end with a typical Genoese dessert, pandolce, accompanied DA wine, liqueurs and Italian grappa.

7. At the end of the experience you will receive the recipe of the Champion in PDF, all the photos and videos of the experience and a small gift for you.

Sample Menu

STARTER
Mortar pesto with Genoese focaccia
savor the World Champion Pesto and your freshly prepared pesto with the typical Genoese focaccia.

MAIN
Pasoti with walnut sauce
discover the Ligurian tradition with a plate of fresh handmade pansoti, served with the walnut sauce freshly prepared by mortar.

DESSERT
Typical Genoese dessert
the route will end with the Genoese pandolce.
The dishes will be accompanied DA a wine from the Ligurian Riviera and DA Italian liqueurs and grappa.