Taste Sri Lanka.
Live the Village.
Join a hands-on Sri Lankan village cooking experience with local ingredients, traditional techniques, and a meal you help create.
Cook
Work side by side with your host over an open flame, grinding spices and shaping hoppers with your own hands.
Learn
Understand the why behind each dish spice pairing, coconut milk, and techniques passed down through generations.
Taste
Sit down together and share the rice-and-curry spread you just prepared, family-style, in the garden.
Meet your host
Cooking taught the way it was taught to us
Host bio placeholder a short, honest introduction to who leads the kitchen, how long they’ve been cooking this way, and what guests can expect from spending a morning with them.
Why guests choose us
What makes this experience different
Small groups, every time
Capped guest numbers so every session stays genuinely hands-on.
Cooked, not just watched
You grind, scrape, and stir your host guides rather than performs.
Open-fire cooking
Traditional clay-hearth technique, not a gas-stove demo.
Garden-fresh ingredients
Herbs and vegetables picked the same morning where possible.
Dietary needs welcomed
Vegetarian and vegan guests accommodated with notice.
Take the recipes home
Notes from your session sent so you can cook it again.
Visual moments
A glimpse of the kitchen
Preparing together
Hands-on at the counter
Cooking over fire
The clay hearth
Spice table
Smell, touch, taste
Shared meal
Guests at the table
How it works
Your experience, step by step
From welcome drink to shared meal every step is hands-on, guided, and unhurried.
Welcome King Coconut
Arrive to a chilled king coconut and a short introduction to the kitchen, the garden, and your host.
Meet the Spices
Smell, touch, and taste the cinnamon, cardamom, curry leaves, and chillies that define Sri Lankan cooking.
Prepare Together
Scrape coconut, grind a tempered curry paste, and prep vegetables the traditional way hands-on, start to finish.
Cook Over Fire
Cook rice, two or three curries, and a sambol on the clay hearth, guided by your host at every step.
Sit Down & Enjoy
Share the meal you made together at the garden table the best part of the whole experience.
What's included
Everything you need for a full cooking day
- Welcome herbal or king coconut drink
- Introduction to Sri Lankan spices and ingredients
- Hands-on coconut scraping and milk extraction
- Guided rice and curry cooking lesson
- Traditional sambol and dessert preparation
- Full sit-down meal of everything you cook
- Dietary and allergen guidance on request
- Digital recipe notes sent after your session
Pricing per person (USD)
1 guest
$15
2 guests
$12
3–4 guests
$10
5–8 guests
$8–9
Contact us for family rates, larger groups, and private experiences.
On the table
Signature dishes you'll cook
A rotating, seasonal menu built around what's fresh in the garden every dish made from scratch, with you.
Coconut Sambol (Pol Sambol)
Fresh scraped coconut, chilli, lime, and dried fish or vegetarian alternative.
Dhal Curry (Parippu)
Red lentils simmered in coconut milk with turmeric, curry leaves, and garlic.
Jackfruit Curry
Young jackfruit slow-cooked in a roasted curry powder base a chicken option is also available.
Egg Hoppers
Bowl-shaped fermented rice-and-coconut pancakes with an egg cooked into the centre.
Garden to kitchen
Grown steps away, cooked the same day
Curry leaves, chillies, and herbs come straight from the garden beside the kitchen. What we don’t grow ourselves, we source from neighbours in the village we’ll always tell you which is which.
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What guests say after cooking with us
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Good to know
Practical details
Duration
2.5 – 3 hours
Group size
1 – 8 guests
Language
English
Location
Wahala Kananke, Udakaduruwaka Watta, Imaduwa 80130, Sri Lanka
Questions
A few things guests ask
The full session runs around 2.5–3 hours, from welcome drink through to the shared meal.
Cook with us. Taste Sri Lanka.
Take the memories home.
Sessions are limited to keep every group hands-on. Message us to check your date.