Negombo – Sri Lankan Cooking Experience

Cookery Class & Market Visit in Negombo

Discover the true taste of Sri Lanka with a hands-on cooking experience in the heart of Negombo.

Your culinary adventure begins with a guided visit to a bustling local market, where you’ll explore colourful stalls filled with fresh vegetables, fragrant spices, tropical fruits, and the catch of the day. Learn how locals select the finest ingredients while discovering the traditions and flavours that make Sri Lankan cuisine so unique.

Back in the kitchen, you’ll be guided step-by-step through authentic cooking techniques that have been passed down through generations. Using fresh, locally sourced ingredients, you’ll prepare a delicious Sri Lankan feast from scratch, including creamy coconut curries, spicy sambols, fragrant rice, and seasonal specialities such as fresh lagoon fish or traditional jackfruit curry.

Best of all, you’ll enjoy the meal you’ve created while gaining the skills and recipes to recreate the authentic taste of Sri Lanka at home.

After cooking, sit down and enjoy the delicious meal you’ve created.

Perfect for food lovers, curious travellers, and aspiring home chefs, this authentic Sri Lankan cooking experience offers far more than just a meal. Discover the island’s rich culinary traditions, learn time-honoured recipes, and master traditional cooking techniques using fresh local ingredients. You’ll leave with unforgettable memories, new culinary skills, authentic recipes to recreate at home, and a deeper appreciation of Sri Lanka’s vibrant food culture.

Itinerary & Highlights

• Pick-up from your Negombo Hotel between 11.00 am – 12.00 pm

• Drop-off between 6.00 pm – 7.00 pm

• Market Visit – Drive Time – 15 Mins – Visiting Time 30 Mins.

Discover the vibrant heart of local life at the Negombo Vegetable Market. Bursting with colour, fresh produce, and island spices, this lively market offers a true taste of Sri Lanka. Stroll among friendly vendors, explore exotic fruits and vegetables, and experience the flavours that define Sri Lankan cooking.

• Cooking Class – Drive Time 10 Mins – Visiting Time – 1 hour and 30 Mins.

Sri Lankan cuisine is renowned for its bold flavours, fragrant spices, and fresh tropical ingredients. Influenced by Indian, Portuguese, Dutch, Arab, and Malay traditions, it features delicious coconut curries, spicy sambols, fragrant rice, fresh seafood, and crispy hoppers, creating an unforgettable culinary experience that reflects the island’s rich culture and heritage.

• Drive back to Negombo and drop off – Drive Time 15 Mins.

Cooking Class Menu

You can customize the menu to your liking, with vegetarian, non-vegetarian, and pescatarian options available — including your choice of vegetables, fish, and spice level.

• Steamed Sri Lankan White rice Or Red Rice or Coconut Roti.

• Sri Lankan Flavoured Lentil Curry, undoubtedly the most popular dish in Sri Lanka ( Yellow Lentils with the Coconut Cream and Herbs)

• Negombo Style Fish Curry, normally barramundi or your favorite fish with the Negombo Style curry with spices & Special curry powder with mild spicy level.

• Coconut Milk with Snake gourd/Bitter Gourd/Bottel Gourd or Cooking Melon.

• Shredded vegetable & Leafy Greens with grated Coconut.

• Coconut Sambole.

• Tropical Fruit Juice with Mint.

Included

• English-speaking Guide

• Pick up and drop off by Car Or Tuk Tuk.

• Two courses Authentic Sri Lankan Dishes.

• All the cost for the materials & relate to experience.

Price

USD 50 per person
Kids under the age of 13 are free or charge