Sicily: Cooking Class with Local Chef & Sicilian Lunch

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Duration2h

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Learn to cook Sicilian pasta & cannoli with locals in Catania

You’ll join a small group in Catania for a hands-on Sicilian cooking class led by a local chef. Make fresh pasta from scratch, prepare classic Norma sauce and fill your own cannoli shells before sitting down together for an all-inclusive homemade lunch with wine. Expect laughter, real flavors and maybe flour on your shirt.

Step-by-step itinerary

Sicilian Cooking Experience

Welcome aperitif with bruschetta and wine
Prepare fresh pasta: tagliatelle and ricotta ravioli
Make Alla Norma sauce with aubergines and ricotta
Prepare classic Sicilian Cannolo dessert
Enjoy meal together at the table

The Experience

I’ll be honest, I was mostly excited about the wine at first. But walking into that kitchen in Catania — the smell of fried eggplant already hanging in the air — I realized this was going to be more than just a “Sicilian cooking class.” Our chef, Giulia, greeted us with bruschetta and a glass of something red and bold. She had this way of laughing at my attempts to pronounce “ricotta” (I still can’t roll my R’s), but it felt like being welcomed by an old friend. There were six of us, all strangers, but somehow it didn’t feel awkward after that first bite of cheese.

We started kneading dough for tagliatelle. My hands got sticky fast — flour everywhere — and Giulia just shrugged and said, “It’s good luck if you make a mess.” The kitchen windows were cracked open; you could hear scooters outside and someone singing from another apartment. Making ravioli was trickier than I thought (mine looked more like little pillows than proper shapes), but nobody cared. When we moved on to the Norma sauce, frying aubergines until they went golden, the whole place smelled sweet and earthy at once. I kept sneaking tastes when Giulia wasn’t looking. Maybe she noticed.

The best part? Cannoli. We piped ricotta cream into crispy shells — not as neat as the ones in pastry shops, but honestly better because we’d made them ourselves. Sitting down together at the end, passing plates around and pouring more wine, it felt like Sunday lunch with family I didn’t know I had. There was this moment where everyone went quiet for a second before digging in — just happy, I guess. I still think about that view from the window: laundry flapping on balconies, sun starting to dip behind tiled roofs.

What’s included

Your day includes all ingredients for making fresh pasta and cannoli alongside a local chef in Catania.
Enjoy welcome aperitif snacks with cheese and cold cuts plus unlimited wine or beer throughout your hands-on lesson.
Afterward you’ll share everything you cooked together over an all-inclusive homemade lunch before heading out into Sicily again.

Good to know

Wheelchair accessibleAccessible transportStroller friendlyInfant seats availablePets welcomePublic transport nearby

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