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.
- Operating hours: Upon request
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- info@peliongastronomy.gr
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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. Culinary experience with Timoleon Diamantis, Greece’s Master Chef
A culinary journey in the history of the Greek “mezes”
Gastronomy is the art of preparing and serving rich or delicate and appetizing food, the cooking styles of particular regions, and the science of good eating. Timoleon Diamantis, Greece’s Master Chef from Makrinitsa (one of the most famous Pelion’s villages), will be your ideal host. Timoleon will help you to wade into the local gastronomy in a more modern approach.
At this cooking lesson you will have the opportunity to collect and learn more about the seasonal vegetables of our garden and how you can cook or preserve them, to smell the aromas of the precious Pelion herbs and experience a unique culinary experience next to an acclaimed chef.
Enjoy this unique experiential culinary journey in the history of the Greek “mezes”, small dishes that were served in the famous “tsipouradika” (small taverns) in our region from 1922 until today. Peliongastronomy awaits you to discover it.
We welcome our guests with a cup of hot mountain tea or homemade sour cherry juice. The 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 diplomas.
2. Cooking lesson in Portaria - Let`s make the famous Greek pie with local woman
Greek Pie: a tasty and healthy snack during the dayYou 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 and a fresh seasonal salad.
We welcome our guests with a cup of hot mountain tea or homemade sour cheery juice. The 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 diplomas.
3. Cooking lesson - Vegetarian lovers
From the farm to the table
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.
Until the “Briam” is ready, we will prepare a delicious Pesto Pasta. Our chef will teach you how to prepare our local and traditional pasta called “hilopites” and homemade basil sauce. This menu also includes preparing a traditional refreshing aromatic yogurt dip – tzatziki - with herds from the garden and a fresh seasonal salad.
We welcome our guests with a cup of hot mountain tea or homemade sour cherry juice. The 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 diplomas.
4. Discovering the secrets of Pelion’s land
Feast of Flavors
You will learn how to cook a traditional Pelion recipe, “Meatballs in tomato sauce”. Knead the meatballs, prepare fresh tomato sauce and serve them with traditional local pasta “hilopites”. We set the table and complete our meal with traditional “Batzina”, an original zucchini pie from the region of Thessaly, a traditional refreshing aromatic yogurt dip – tzatziki - with herds from the garden and a fresh seasonal salad.
We welcome our guests with a cup of hot mountain tea or homemade sour cherry juice. The 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 diplomas.
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