Half Day Cooking Classes at Mama Isa's Cooking School Venice Italy

 

Learn how to make a delicious antipasto, a primo piatto - fresh pasta or risotto or vegetable soup minestrone - and a yummy dessert with chef Isa

 

3-4 hours Cooking Workshops

 

Half Day Cooking Class

Master The Fundamentals Of Italian Regional Cuisine To Become A Real Italian Cook.

 

Our Chef teaches you step by step how to make a delicious starter antipasto, a primo piatto first course (homemade pasta or risotto or a vegetable soup) as well as a delicious dessert.

 

Our cooking classes have the mission of providing a food education and cooking education for anyone.

Hands on Italian Half Day Cooking Class

 

 

HALF DAY COOKING CLASS DESCRIPTION

• The 3-4 hours hands-on (not a demonstration) cooking class covers authentic, traditional Italian Regional recipes using fresh, organic and natural ingredients from the daily farm market;

• Farm to Table;

• Mediterranean and Italian Diet;

• A cooking class instructor and chef (speaking English fluently) and a sous-chef

• 3-4 Recipes in English;

• Taught in English;

• Every cooking class is fun and instructive;

.... and much more!

 

Primi Piatti - First Courses 

 

Starting Time:

at 10:00 am or at 4:00 pm. We work on Monday, Tuesday, Wedsneday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Duration:

approx. 3-4 hours

How many people can I reserve for?

We can accommodate from two up to twelve people. But we available with one on one class.

In our cooking classes there is no dress code.

 

What are our Cooking Courses like?

Totally hands-on, not demonstrations

 

 

Location: Veneto region - Venice area - Italy

 

 

Primi Piatti

 

 

What will you learn?

• Four recipes to reproduce and impress with

• Culinary and cooking techniques from the classic Italian Regional repertoire

• Surprising stories about Italian Culture and the history of Italian Cuisine, because the chef is not only a chef and a teacher but also a historian.

 

 

Antipasti

 

OUR MOST POPULAR MENUS

 

 

ANTIPASTI - STARTERS

• The famous long raised homemade Focaccia topped with Rosemary, Cherry Tomatoes, Onion or Garlic, Evoo, salt, black pepper

• Bruschetta with garlic, tomatoes, basil, evoo, black pepper

• Crostini with delicious toppings or paté;

• A typical perfect cheese and cured meat board with Italian cheeses and Prosciutto Crudo di Parma

• Caprese Salad with the DOP Buffalo Milk Mozzarella, basil, organic evoo, tomatoes

• Prosciutto Crudo di Norcia or Prosciutto Crudo di San Daniele (charcuterie) and salami platter board

• The famous beef Bresaola (a real food excellence of Lombardy - a typical cold cuts of Valtellina) served on arugula, DOP Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, DOP Balsamic Vinegar of Modena

• A creamy DOP Burrata cheese (a stretched-curd mozzarella cheese from Puglia region with a very soft and creamy filling) with Arugula, Parmigiano reggiano cheese and baby tomatoes

• The famous Egg Frittata with Zucchini

• Chickpea Farinata Tart

• Torta al testo (homemade bread made typical in Umbria region, made a circular heavy cast iron pan placed over the cooktop - served with greens and pork sausages or with a local organic Veneto's delicious pork salami called Soppressa or with the cream cheese Stracchino or Robiola and Prosciutto.

 

 

 

FIRST COURSES - PRIMI PIATTI

• Fresh hand-made pasta Tagliatelle - Fettuccine with Bolognese Sauce Ragù

• Fresh hand-made pasta Tagliatelle - Fettuccine with Tomato Marinara Sauce

• Fresh hand-made pasta Tagliatelle - Fettuccine with the real Alfredo Sauce

• Fresh hand-made pasta Tagliatelle - Fettuccine with Carbonara Sauce

• Fresh hand-made pasta Tagliatelle - Fettuccine with Arrabbiata Sauce

• Fresh hand-made pasta Tagliatelle - Fettuccine with Prosciutto, Peas, Cream and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese

• Fresh hand-made pasta Tagliatelle - Fettuccine with Porcini Mushroom Sauce

• Homemade Spaghetti alla Chitarra with Amatriciana Sauce or Cacio e Pepe Sauce

• Homemade Spaghetti alla Chitarra with Cacio e Pepe Sauce

• Homemade Spaghetti alla Chitarra with Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino

• Homemade Spaghetti alla Chitarra with Clam Sauce Vongole

• Homemade Spaghetti alla Chitarra with Gricia Sauce

• Potato Gnocchi with Butter, Sage, and Parmigiano Sauce

• Ravioli with Spinach and Ricotta

• Homemade pasta Cavatelli with Puttanesca Sauce or Broccoli Sauce

• Risotto from scratch

• Classic Italian Vegetable Soup

 

 

 

DESSERT

• Classic Tiramisù

• Limoncello Tiramisu (with homemade liquor Limoncello)

• Panna Cotta with a fruit coulis

• Homemade Gelato

• The famous Venetian Biscotti Zaletti

• Almond Biscotti Cantuccini

• Mama Isa's Family Chocolate Mousse (without cream!)

• The spoon dessert Zuppa Inglese (made with 'crema pasticcera' a pastry custard and cocoa pudding - two different fillings-, Italian biscotti savoiardi and the famous Italian liquor Alchermes)

• The Venetian Zabaione al Marsala wine

• Torta della nonna (Grandmother Ricotta Bundt Cake)

• Zabaione al Caffè.

 

 

Primi Piatti

 

 

 

Half Day Cooking Classes in Venice Italy

 

Antipasti 

 

Mama Isa's Cooking School is an acclaimed and famous cooking school in Italy featured on The New York Times, Fox News Channel, Fodor's Travel, Lonely Planet, and featured in many food and travel magazines.

 

It is ranked in the top ten in Italy by major media outlets, including NYTimes.

 

We have already received 760 five-star reviews. Click the image below to see our reviews.

760 reviews on Mama Isa's Cooking School

Desserts

Please remember our cooking workshops are totally hands-on, not demonstrations.

Contact Mama Isa

 

 

How to get in touch with Mama Isa's Cooking School?

Whether you want to enquire about our cooking classes, have special dietary needs, want to organize something special or anything else, please just contact us and we will get back to you within 24 hours.

 

 

SEND US AN EMAIL for cooking class inquiries, questions, informations, suggestions or collabs!

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We accept last minute requests.

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You can choose to join us not only one day class but for 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 days with different menus everyday.

 

Bolognese Sauce Ragout