Greek cooking experience

Sign up for the Karaiskos Farm cooking classes

You’ll have the opportunity to knead and bake bread in the traditional wood oven, and you’ll learn how to cook traditional Greek recipes with organic products, all freely available from the farm’s kitchen gardens.

All dishes are prepared with natural, pure Greek products from the Thessaly region including olive oil, vegetables, cheese, meat, and wine. All of the ingredients are fresh and locally-sourced.

During the course, you will also be given useful information about the herbs native to Pelion, as well as olive oil and the other ingredients we use.

A unique presentation of Greek wines combined with inspired local dishes can be arranged on request at our farm.

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We will be waiting for you at the Karaiskos farm at 11:00 am, where after the welcome, we will treat you to a taste of our homemade ‘spoon’ sweets.

Next, we will visit the vegetable garden to learn about the seasonal produce and herbs locally grown in Pelion.

During the class, a choice of tsipouro or ouzo will be served, accompanied by olives and feta cheese.

Most of the ingredients for the dishes on the menu will be prepped and ready to use in bowls before the class starts.

After the cooking class, at about 13.00, the table will be set for the meal.

We serve unlimited quantities of wine with the meal...

At the end of the day, a souvenir group photo will be taken with the guests and staff, your impressions can be recorded in the guest book, and gifts will be given to participants (souvenir certificate of attendance, a book with the recipes, a small gift bag with traditional olives and ouzo from Pelion and a cooking apron).

Included:

Greek coffee or tea with seasonal spoon sweets (preserved fruit).

Tsipouro brandy or ouzo with ‘meze’ (appetisers)

Meal with dishes made during the class

Souvenir certificate of attendance

Souvenir photographs Small gift bag with traditional olives and tsipouro brandy from Pelion

Souvenir kitchen apron

1. Cooking lesson -Greek Souvlaki –in Pelion Countryside

Grilled pork or chicken pieces on a skewer, handmade pita bread, onion and tomato from the garden combinedwith Tzatzikiare the ingredients foroneofthe most famous Greek food.

Learn the secret tips of baking a good Souvlaki, make handmade pita bread, traditional tzatziki and Greek salad. We welcome our guests with a cup of hot mountain tea or homemade sour cheery juice. Souvlaki will be served on the table accompanied with sea-sonal salad and Greek beer.

At the end of the lesson,we say goodbye to our guests with small gifts and participation diploma.

Minimum group of 2 participants, maximum of 20 participants

2. Cooking lesson in Portaria - Let`s make the famous Greek pie with local woman

Greek Pie: a tasty and healthy snack during the day

You will learn how to make-open phyllo dough by the traditional way for the pie, fill it with fresh vegetables and herbs collected straight from the farm’s garden and bake it in the wood oven.
Until the pie is going to be ready, we will prepare fluffy fried zucchini-balls and refreshing aromatic yogurt dip with herds from the garden.
We welcome our guests with a cup of hot mountain tea or homemade sour cheery juice. Pie will be served on the table accompanied with seasonal salad and wine from the Greek vineyard. At the end of the lesson, we say goodbye to our guests with small gifts and participation diploma.
Minimum group of 2 participants, maximum of 20 participants

3. Cooking lesson in Pelion - Flavors from Greece

Greek Traditional Moussaka

You will learn how to make Moussaka, one of the most famous Greek dishes. We will cook this special dish, which has the eggplant as a main ingredient, by simple steps and will bake it in the wood oven.
Until the moussaka is gone be ready, we will prepare Strapatsada the Greek omelet made by grated fresh tomatoes and eggs from our chicken coop, then we will teach you the secrets of Pelion’s olive bread.
We welcome our guests with a cup of hot mountain tea or sour cherry juice. Moussaka will be served on the table with seasonal salad and wine from the Greek vineyard. At the end of the class we say goodbye to our guests with small gifts and participation diploma.
Minimum group of 2 participants, maximum of 20 participants

 

4. Cooking lesson - From the farm to the table - We cook Ladera

Briam and Traditional Cheesebread

Learn how to cook with what the fertile land of Pelion produces. We will cook Briam (oven baked vegetables) with various seasonal vegetables gathered from the garden. Then we will knead the Tiropsomo (cheesebread), we’ll add feta cheese, herbs and we’ll bake it in the wood oven. In the end we shape and prepare fluffy fried tomato balls.
We welcome our guests with a cup of hot mountain tea or sour cherry juice. Our dishes we will be served on the table with seasonal salad and wine from Greek vineyard. At the end of the lesson, we say goodbye to our guests with small gifts and participation diploma.
Minimum group of 2 participants, maximum of 20 participants

5. Discovering the secrets of Pelion’s land

Feast of Flavors

You will learn how to cook Meatballs in tomato sauce with Greek pasta (Hilopites).

Knead the meatballs, prepare fresh tomato sauce and traditional hilopites. Oregano and olive oil give the magic touch of flavor in our dish. Slow cooked feta cheese in the wood oven complete our menu.
We welcome our guests with a cup of hot mountain tea or sour cherry juice.  Our «Meatballs» will be served on the table accompanied with seasonal salad and wine from Greek vineyard. At the end of the lesson, we say goodbye to our guests with small gifts and participation diploma.
Minimum group of 2 participants, maximum of 20 participants

6. Greek cooking lesson - Discovering the secrets of Pelion cuisine

Pelion Spetzofai and Traditional Zucchini Pie (Batzina)

We will cook traditional Spetzofai. One of the most famous dish in Pelion which is cooked with homemade sausage and peppers in fresh grated tomato sauce. We set the table and complete our meal with traditional “Batzina”, an original zucchini pie from the region of Thessaly, and aromatic fried oregano balls.
We welcome our guests with a cup of hot mountain tea or homemade sour cherry juice. Spetzofai will be served on the table accompanied with seasonal salad and wine from Greek vineyard. At the end of the lesson, we say goodbye to our guests with small gifts and participation diploma.
Minimum group of 2 participants, maximum of 20 participants