Cooking classes & pastry lessons for children
Our Relais & Châteaux Chef shares his secret with our guests, showing local techniques and featuring organic products grown in our organic garden or by farmers of the area.
During our cooking classes, you will learn traditional and professional techniques to prepare the famous Argentinean empanadas. What better way to surprise your guests the next time you invite them?
Cooking classes – Learn how to make the famous empanadas
We begin by introducing you to our cuisine, our emblematic recipes and some traditional Argentinean culinary techniques.
Weather and season permitting, we will take you on a walk through our orchard and herb gardens. You will discover the products harvested on our farm and used in our restaurant La Table House of Jasmines. To awaken all your senses, we invite you to smell the aroma of each herb and if you wish, you can harvest some to add to your recipe.
After working up an appetite, it’s time to get back in the kitchen and put on the House of Jasmines apron. Our chef introduces you and shares the ingredients for the recipe. We start by making the dough, we give you some tips to get a soft dough and without lumps. After working the dough for a few minutes, it’s time to prepare the filling of the empanada. Empanadas Salteñas are known for having potatoes in their filling.
During the workshop, you will learn how to prepare different types of fillings with seasonal ingredients. Once the filling is ready, make the famous “repulgue”, the folding of the empanada. It takes a little practice, but by the end of the workshop, you will certainly be an expert in the “repulgue” technique.
Congratulations, your empanadas are ready to go in the oven.
At the end of the workshop, we will give you the recipe for the empanadas and we will also send it to you by e-mail so that you always have it at hand.
Empanadas & wine tasting
It’s time to taste and share your dish! At the end of the cooking workshop, we taste our freshly baked empanadas. You can compare your version with the chef’s, maybe the student surpasses the master. To enhance the flavors, you can accompany your empanadas with a good wine from Cafayate.
In our estancia, you will find a selection of wines from the most renowned wineries in the region:
- Bodega Domingo Molina
- Bodega El Provenir
- Bodega Colomé
- Bodega Domingos Hermanos
- Bodega Vasija Secret
If you want to awaken all your senses and discover local flavors, our cooking classes are the ideal entertainment.
Pastry lessons for kids
The little ones can also have fun baking. During the class, children learn, have fun and create something delicious. Back home, they can put the techniques they’ve learned into practice at family gatherings, birthday parties, or on Sunday afternoons.
Baking classes for kids are ideal for awakening their senses and learning cooking techniques that best preserve the nutritional properties of food. Children learn in an orderly and methodical way to follow recipe instructions, select, weigh and measure ingredients.
To stimulate the children’s creativity, we decorate pastries with different colors and flavors. Once the pastries are ready, we invite the parents to come and taste their children’s recipes. At the end of the class, the children are very proud to tell their parents about the new techniques they learned.
