Berber Cooking Class in an Imlil Village Home

About the Imlil Berber cooking class

Mountain cooking is about patience: tagines simmer for hours over wood or charcoal, bread is baked against hot stones, and almost everything comes from the family’s own terraces.

In this class you spend the late morning with a family in a village near Imlil. You help prepare a tagine of chicken or lamb with vegetables from the garden, make tafarnout, the flat bread baked in a clay oven lined with pebbles, and learn the Berber way of pouring tea from high above the glass.

You eat together on the terrace, with the snowy peaks in front of you from November to April.

Highlights

• Cook with a Berber family
• Tagine slow-cooked over wood
• Tafarnout bread baked on hot stones
• Berber tea ceremony
• Lunch with a mountain view
• Short walk from Imlil

Route map of the Imlil Berber cooking class

Berber villages, walnut valleys and North Africa’s highest peak, Jbel Toubkal, just an hour from Marrakech. All tours in Atlas Mountains

Itinerary for the day

1. 10:30 Meet in Imlil

   Short walk to the village

   Walk with your guide to the family home.

2. 11:00 Cooking

   Prepare the tagine, light the fire and make bread dough.

3. 12:30 Bread and tea

   Bake tafarnout and learn the tea ceremony.

4. 13:30 Lunch

   Eat together, then walk back to Imlil.

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 Imlil Berber 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