Rif Mountain Cooking Class in a Chefchaouen Home

About the Chefchaouen cooking class

Food in the Rif mountains is simpler than in Fes or Marrakech, and very good. Goat’s cheese from the hills, olive oil pressed in the valleys, fava beans, wild herbs and bread baked in the neighbourhood oven.

You start at the municipal market with the host, buying vegetables, herbs and cheese. Back in her house in the medina, you cook bissara (a thick fava bean soup with olive oil and cumin), a chicken or vegetable tagine with preserved lemon, a salad of grilled peppers and tomatoes, and khobz bread that you take to the communal oven.

Lunch is on the roof terrace, with a view over the blue houses to the mountains. You leave with the recipes and a much better idea of how people really live in Chefchaouen.

Highlights

• Market shopping with your host
• Cook in a real family home in the medina
• Bissara, tagine, salads and fresh bread
• Bake bread in the communal oven
• Lunch on a roof terrace
• Recipes to take home

Route map of the Chefchaouen cooking class

The famous blue pearl of the Rif, with painted lanes, mountain hikes and a slow, peaceful pace. All tours in Chefchaouen

Itinerary for the day

1. 10:00 Market

   Meet at Outa el Hammam

   Buy fresh ingredients with your host at the municipal market.

2. 11:00 Cooking

   Prepare bissara, tagine, salads and bread dough in the family kitchen.

3. 12:30 The communal oven

   Carry the bread to the neighbourhood oven, the way families still do.

4. 13:30 Lunch on the terrace

   Eat what you cooked with your host family.

Times and driving durations are approximate and can be adapted. It is a private tour, so you can change stops with your driver-guide.

Prices for the Chefchaouen cooking class

Your private tour, with prices per group size. All prices are in euros and include everything listed under “What’s included”.

The more you are, the less you pay per person. Children count as travellers when they need a bed.

What's included