Local Experience

🍳 Balinese Cooking Class

Discover the flavours of Bali in a relaxed and personal cooking experience. Prepare local food together, learn about traditional ingredients and enjoy everything you cook for dinner.

5 PM – 7 PM • Up to 6 cooks • From IDR 350K
Balinese cooking class at Oemah Tepi Sawah
Fresh local ingredients prepared for the cooking class
Preparing local food during the cooking class
Preparing fresh herbs for Balinese cooking

Cooking Class Highlights & Details

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Evening Cooking

We start at around 5 PM. By approximately 7 PM, the food is ready and everyone can enjoy it together for dinner.

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Three Recipes per Group

Your group prepares two local savoury dishes and one traditional dessert in total . Everyone cooks the same three recipes together.

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Up to 6 Cooks

Our small kitchen accommodates up to six people, keeping the cooking experience relaxed and personal.

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Tea & Local Coffee

Tea and local coffee are included free of charge throughout the cooking class.

Cook, Eat & Experience Local Bali

Our cooking class is a relaxed introduction to local Balinese and Indonesian food. It is not just about following a recipe — it is about preparing food together and discovering the ingredients and flavours used in everyday local cooking.

The class begins at around 5 PM. As one group, you choose and prepare two local dishes and one local dessert . Everyone takes part in preparing the same three recipes, and at around 7 PM we sit down and enjoy everything we have prepared for dinner.

The two dishes and one dessert are prepared together by the whole group , regardless of whether there are one, two or six participants. They are not prepared separately for each person.

No previous cooking experience is needed. Just bring your curiosity and an appetite.

✨ Food Options

  • 🐓 Chicken
    Our standard meat option
  • 🌿 Vegetarian
    Tempeh, tofu, corn and local vegetables
  • 🌱 Vegan
    Available on request
  • ☕ Tea & local coffee
    Complimentary during the class
  • 🍺 Bintang beer
    Small bottle — IDR 30K

From Our Kitchen

Recipes You Can Cook With Us

Curious about what we cook? Discover some of the Indonesian and Balinese dishes we prepare in our cooking classes. Each recipe comes from our kitchen at Oemah Tepi Sawah.

Before Choosing Your Recipes

When choosing your meal and dessert recipes, please check the ingredients carefully and let us know if you have any food allergies or dietary restrictions. This will help us make sure the recipes you choose are suitable for you.
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Indonesian Classic

Gado-Gado

Vegetables, tofu and tempeh with our homemade peanut sauce.

Sweet Treat

Pukis

A soft Indonesian cake made with coconut milk and palm sugar.

Traditional Sweet

Dadar Gulung

Pandan crepes rolled around a sweet coconut and palm sugar filling.

Gluten-Free

Lukis

Sticky rice with fresh coconut and liquid palm sugar.

Pandan Dessert

Roti Jala

Delicate pandan net crepes served with coconut palm sugar sauce.

Traditional Dessert

Petulo

Steamed rice-flour noodles with warm palm sugar coconut sauce.

Balinese Favourite

Sate Lilit Ayam

Spiced chicken wrapped around lemongrass and grilled.

Vegetarian

Capcay

Colourful vegetables with egg and vegetarian oyster sauce.

Indonesian Comfort Food

Soto Ayam

Fragrant chicken soup with rice noodles, spices and fresh toppings.

Vegetarian

Perkedel Jagung

Crispy Indonesian corn fritters seasoned with Base Genep.

Indonesian Classic

Mie Goreng

Fried noodles with egg, vegetables and savoury-sweet sauce.

Balinese Snack

Godoh

Balinese fried banana, known across Indonesia as Pisang Goreng.

Indonesian Home Cooking

Sup Jagung

Corn soup with egg, carrots and fresh vegetables.

Vegetarian

Tempe Barak

Crispy tempeh with red Balinese spices, palm sugar and kaffir lime.

Indonesian Favourite

Sate Tusuk Ayam

Grilled chicken skewers served with homemade peanut sauce.

Gluten-Free Dessert

Purple Sweet Potato Balls

Soft purple sweet potato balls with tapioca, served with warm coconut milk.

Gluten-Free Dessert

Wajik

Traditional sticky rice sweet with palm sugar and coconut milk, served in banana leaves.

Cooking Class Prices

One Menu per Cooking Group

Each cooking class group prepares 2 dishes and 1 dessert in total , regardless of the number of participants. The recipes are chosen and cooked together as a group — not 2 dishes and 1 dessert per person.

1 person IDR 350K
2 people IDR 700K
3 people IDR 900K
4 people IDR 1,200K
5 people IDR 1,250K
6 people IDR 1,500K
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Groups Larger Than 6 People

Additional guests are welcome to watch the cooking and enjoy the finished meal for IDR 100K per person .

Cooking Class

Cook With Us

Tell Dewi your preferred date, number of guests and whether you would like chicken, vegetarian or vegan food.