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Learn how to cook REAL Mexican in Los Cabos, Mexico
Want to go home with more than just Instagram photos of your favourite Mexican food? Fear not - there are several restaurants, hotels and organic farms in Los Cabos where you can learn you how to cook Mexican favourites so reliving your holiday regularly is a snap.
Here’s a round up of classes you can try:
Tamarindos Organic Farm grows all the produce for their onsite restaurant – from vibrant herbs to rainbow-coloured heirloom carrots to tomatoes that taste like summer.
Their cooking class starts with a tour of the farm with one of the local chefs and you get to pick the ingredients to make a four course Mexican meal.
Once in the (open air) kitchen, you’ll learn various techniques to make delicious and authentic Mexican. The menu changes based on what is in season, but you can be sure it will include a lesson in herbs and spices, like chillies – which are the hottest and which chilli suits which meal. This is not a just a demonstration – you’ll be chopping and stirring and blitzing under the guidance of the friendly local chefs.
A sample menu includes Tomatoes with herb oil, Tortilla Soup, locally sourced Tuna steaks with ‘Green Rice’ (blitz a few bunches of herbs, water and seasoning before cooking the rice in the herbed water – simple and delicious!), and ricotta stuffed zucchini flowers baked in the wood fired oven with quince paste.
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Owner and chef Enrique Silva says it's all about fresh produce: "Here at Tamrindos we use as much of the produce we grow ourselves as possible - fresh herbs full of flavour, vegetables, fresh seafood and meat sourced from local suppliers. It's all about great quality ingredients and the simple farm to table experience!"
And at the end of class you’ll get to enjoy your meal looking out over the fields where you picked the produce that very morning, with a Tamarind Margarita in hand. Farm to table indeed.
On the southernmost tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, carved into a cliff on 24 mountainside and pristine oceanfront acres, lies luxurious hotel The Resort at Pedregal.
If you need a break from all the lazing by the infinity pool and massages in your private villa, why not try one of Pedregal’s cooking or cocktail classes.
The one-hour long Mi Cocina classes focus on a traditional Mexican dish – choose from the following:
Ceviches - Learn how to prepare classic regional ceviches from various coastal cities in Mexico
Tamales - Demystify the process of making tamales
Salsas and Moles - Begin with the basic salsa Mexicana and finish with the ancient Chichilo Negro Mole
Each class starts with a quick lesson in indigenous Mexican ingredients and how they are used in Mexican cuisine before learning how to make your chosen dish.
Once you are done, you get to sit down for lunch with the chef, with a view of the Pacific Ocean – and maybe a cold Corona!
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And if you really want to impress your friends back home with your knowledge of Mexican cuisine, then why not sign up for the tequila tasting class?
In the Beginners Course you will learn about the history and the tradition of this legendary spirit, and how to understand and taste the differences between Blanco, Reposado and Añejo Tequila along with Mezcal. Salud!
Flora Farm is a ten-acre organic farm in the foothills of the Sierra de la Laguna Mountains in San Jose del Cabo and they have been farming without pesticides or genetically modified seeds for over ten years.
The open-air restaurant looks out over the fields, and guests can also stock up at the onsite bakery and produce store. Flora Farms is a celebrity favourite too, with Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo trying the knot here in 2014.
In addition to growing over 100 varieties of vegetables and herbs, they also work with a local farmer "Jefe" Guadalupe Espinoza, to ensure that all the meat, poultry and eggs comes from humanely raised animals. Oh and all the bread and pastries are made fresh on site each day. This is the perfect example of 'eat local.'
If sampling all the delicious food at Flora (they’re famous for their pizzas) leaves you wanting more, try one of their regular cooking classes. You’ll learn authentic Mexican dishes - perhaps regional Mexican salsas and guacamole or Roasted Vegetable tacos - complete with your very own tortillas from scratch. No Old el Paso taco kit at your next dinner party!
All the cooking classes also include a farm tour and a cocktail - so after class settle in with a signature Bloody Mary (garnished with celery from the farm), or the heirloom carrot ‘Farmarita’ and enjoy the live lunchtime jazz. Dinner party inspiration sorted!
