BALINESE & INDONESIAN COOKING CLASSES

Balinese Cooking Classes: 15 Worth Flying For

31 classes  ·  from $18 a head

It starts with base gede, the spice paste everything else is built on. The 15 below cover the Ubud rice-field kitchens and the coastal schools, priced with transfers noted.

Ubud: Balinese Cooking Class at an Organic Farm - The morning market and the ride beyond Ubud
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Ubud: Balinese Cooking Class at an Organic Farm

1.Balinese Cooking Class at an Organic Farm

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 1,786 reviews · 330 minutes - 8 hours · from $32Our pick

Travel from Ubud to Bali Farm Cooking School for a market visit, organic farm tour, and hands-on cooking class. Meet instructors such as Buda, Depi, or Wayan, harvest ingredients, prepare six dishes, and eat what you make. Choose a regular or vegetarian menu. Morning sessions include the market.

“Everything was fantastic! Our 20-year-old teacher was incredible. I don’t want to miswrite his name. He taught us so much. Would definitely do this again”

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Ubud Cooking Class Bali with Balinese Chef - Two menus, both built around seven dishes
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Ubud Cooking Class Bali with Balinese Chef

2.Ubud Cooking Class Bali with Balinese Chef

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 1,609 reviews · from $35

Work at your own station with an English-speaking Balinese chef, preparing seven vegetarian or non-vegetarian dishes. The morning option adds a 30-minute Ubud market visit and shared hotel pickup in central Ubud. Expect about four hours, hands-on cooking, and a meal made by you.

“They were well prepared, plenty of people on hand to assist and the head chef was knowledgeable and entertaining!”

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PRIVATE Authentic Balinese Cooking Class in Ubud at Putu's Home - Cooking five Balinese dishes in a simple kitchen
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PRIVATE Authentic Balinese Cooking Class in Ubud at Putu’s Home

3.PRIVATE Authentic Balinese Cooking Class in Ubud at Putu’s Home

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 644 reviews · from $75

Join Putu and her family for a private Balinese cooking class in their traditional compound near Ubud. You’ll tour the garden and home temple, prepare five dishes with farm-grown ingredients, learn about local customs, and sit down to a generous meal. Pickup from Ubud hotels, lunch and dinner times, vegetarian and vegan options are available.

“This private cooking class was perfect and smooth! First of all we were greeted at the pick up and presented to the traditional family house. After visiting the garden where all the produce comes from Mrs Putu harvested fresh mangosteRead more”

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Balinese Ubud cooking school (9 Dish Cooking and Market Tour) - Rice paddies and a glimpse beyond central Ubud
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Balinese Ubud cooking school (9 Dish Cooking and Market Tour)

4.Balinese Ubud cooking school (9 Dish Cooking and Market Tour)

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 540 reviews · from $58

Start at Ubud Palace, then visit a local market and rice paddies on the morning option before cooking nine Balinese dishes with a local chef. You will prepare meat or vegetarian recipes, eat what you make, receive recipe copies, and return to the meeting point. Pickup is limited to Ubud unless you pay more.

“Amazing experience! Would highly recommend! From the guide to the market tour where we got to try local foods to the actual cooking experience we had so much fun and learned a lot. The recipes were tasty and there was so much food! We did all the fun parts of cooking with excellent guidance and no clean up!”

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Ubud: Balinese Cooking Class and Market Tour - The local market: useful, lively, and not polished for tourists
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Ubud: Balinese Cooking Class and Market Tour

5.Balinese Cooking Class and Market Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 531 reviews · from $23

Spend four hours with an English-speaking Balinese chef and local guide, visiting a morning market, rice paddies, and a family-run cooking school. Prepare nine dishes, then eat what you make. Guides including Putu, Wayan, Butu, and Tata have led sessions, with vegetarian, vegan, and non-spicy options available.

“We enjoyed the guide at the market and doing the dishes!!”

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Seminyak: Balinese Cooking Class & Market Tour - Preparing Balinese Pastes and Multiple Dishes
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Seminyak: Balinese Cooking Class & Market Tour

6.Balinese Cooking Class & Market Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 458 reviews · 4 hours · from $45

Start with an 8:00 AM pickup or meet at Warung Nia in Seminyak. Chef Komang, Made, Tommy, or another local chef leads you through a market visit, spice lessons, and a hands-on class preparing several Balinese dishes. You finish with a large shared meal, recipe book, and certificate.

“We absolutely loved the cooking class, we learnt I think around 12 different things to make, we decided to opt out of the market part of the tour as part of the beginning of the experience as it was pouring rain, and didn’t have umbrellas etc. Though the cooking itself was fantastic and provided with a recipe book, was great to meet new people and share the experience with them also 🙏🏽 highly recommend”

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Balinese Farm Cooking Class by Pemulan Bali - What makes the open-air kitchen worthwhile
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Balinese Farm Cooking Class by Pemulan Bali

7.Balinese Farm Cooking Class by Pemulan Bali

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 410 reviews · from $39

Start with pickup at central Ubud, then visit a traditional market on the morning class before heading to Pemulan Bali’s organic farm. Pick herbs and vegetables, cook six Balinese and Indonesian dishes in an open-air kitchen, and eat what you make with coffee and tea. Recipes and leftovers are included.

“We took a tour of the garden and selected our greens and herbs. Then, we cooked 2 appetizers, 3 main dishes and a community desert. The food quality and instructions were exceptional.”

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Learn to cook Indonesian food at Gili Cooking Classes Trawangan - What the cooking lesson actually teaches
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Learn to cook Indonesian food at Gili Cooking Classes Trawangan

8.Learn to cook Indonesian food at Gili Cooking Classes Trawangan

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 352 reviews · from $33

At Gili Cooking Classes beside Trawangan Dive, you’ll prepare and eat three, four, or six Indonesian dishes in a 1.5 to 2.5-hour class. Chefs guide each step, explain local ingredients, and adapt the menu for vegetarian and vegan diets. Classes run daily at 11:30am, 4pm, and 7pm or 8pm by season.

“My husband and I had so much fun! The instructors were really nice and funny and we got to meet and talk with the other people that were a taking part in the cooking class. The food we made was really tasty and they give you the recipes! I can’t wait to go home and make everything for my friends back home.”

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Balinese Cooking Class in Seminyak - Meeting Chef Putu at The Amala
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Balinese Cooking Class in Seminyak

9.Balinese Cooking Class in Seminyak

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 281 reviews · from $66

At The Amala in Seminyak, Chef Putu and his team guide you through a three-course Balinese meal. Choose a morning or afternoon class, add the Jimbaran fish market visit, and prepare dishes such as chicken satay, papaya soup, steamed fish, and coconut pancakes. Hotel pickup within Seminyak is included.

“Outstanding experience! I recommend adding the morning at the fish market. The dishes were easy to prepare and delicious.”

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Balinese Authentic Cooking Class in Ubud - The farm shows where the flavors begin
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Balinese Authentic Cooking Class in Ubud

10.Balinese Authentic Cooking Class in Ubud

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 239 reviews · from $39

Spend about five hours with Lesung Bali in west Ubud, visiting a morning market, traditional Balinese home, and working farm before cooking a six-dish meal. Choose regular, vegetarian, or vegan recipes, with instructors such as Ron, Putri, or Don and Ubud-area pickup included.

“If you like to cook or admire cooking, this is the experience for you! Putri, a culinary genius, helped me prepare the most delicious meal that I’ve had in all my time in Bali. She taught the old traditional style of cooking which is easily adapted to Read more”

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PRIVATE Balinese Cooking Class in Ubud with Dewa with Transfers - The trip from Ubud to Keliki
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PRIVATE Balinese Cooking Class in Ubud with Dewa with Transfers

11.PRIVATE Balinese Cooking Class in Ubud with Dewa with Transfers

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 213 reviews · from $69

Spend about four hours with Dewa and his family in Keliki, north of Ubud. Walk through village gardens, learn about Balinese herbs and customs, then cook dishes such as tuna in banana leaves, turmeric chicken, and corn fritters over a wood-fired stove. Private Ubud transfers, recipes, beer, and a family meal are included.

“Dewa was such a loving and warm-hearted host. He taught us about his culture, gave us a tour of the wild vegetation that was used for our meals and opened his home to us to learn how to cook. We cooked 5 traditional Balinese meals that were easy to remake (I cook these regularly at home in New York) and were absolutely delicious. My sister and I had so much fun! We will be returning for a Part-2 cooking class to learn more.”

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Nia Balinese Cooking Class

12.Nia Balinese Cooking Class

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 202 reviews · from $45

Start at 8:00 am at Warung Nia in Seminyak, visit a traditional market, then prepare around nine Balinese dishes with chefs including Tommy and Komang. You will cook shared food, eat lunch, receive a recipe book and certificate, and return to the meeting point after about five hours.

“Nia Cooking Class is a sensational way to productively kill 5 hrs in Bali! It is a cost effective way to gain knowledge, meet new people, learn new culinary skills and feast on top notch flavoursome local food. The class is highly organised and hands-on; everyone getting a starring role at the gas burner. I loved the way Chef Komang was able to wrangle 15 knife- wielding participants and a myriad of fresh ingredients with patience, humility and a wicked dry sense of humour. Highlights for me were: the huge lunch banquet with my table group; keepsake recipe book, and; opportunity to buy ingredients on the local market tour. Highly…”

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Bali: Cooking Class with 5 Balinese Dishes - Meeting Ketut and getting started
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Bali: Cooking Class with 5 Balinese Dishes

13.Cooking Class with 5 Balinese Dishes

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 178 reviews · 4 hours

Spend four hours in Sidemen’s mountain woods learning traditional Balinese cooking with local chef Ketut. You’ll prepare five surprise dishes from scratch, using old-style tools and a wood-burning stove, then eat what you make. The small class runs from 8:30am to 1pm, with vegan and vegetarian menus available by request.

“Amazing, loved the whole experience and Ketut was a very good teacher. Absolutely recommend the experience, it was the best coconut curry I have ever tasted. We will definitely try the dishes at home since Ketut also provided us the recipes.”

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Balinese Cooking class with traditional morning market visit - From the market to Laplapan village
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Balinese Cooking class with traditional morning market visit

14.Balinese Cooking class with traditional morning market visit

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 161 reviews · from $35

Start with hotel pickup and a guided visit to a Balinese morning market, then continue to Laplapan village for a small-group cooking class. With Wayan, Dewa, Putu, or another local chef, you will make canang offerings, prepare several traditional dishes, and eat your meal in a peaceful Ubud setting.

“This was an awesome experience. The early morning market was fun and educational learning the different herbs, fruits, and vegetables used in Balinese coking. The class and instructor were amazing. She gave instruction on how to prepare Read more”

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PRIVATE Ubud Market Tour & Balinese Cooking Class with Putu - A 7am start and a smooth trip from Ubud
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PRIVATE Ubud Market Tour & Balinese Cooking Class with Putu

15.PRIVATE Ubud Market Tour & Balinese Cooking Class with Putu

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 125 reviews · from $95

Start with a 7am pickup from your Ubud hotel, then shop for seasonal produce at Pejeng Market with Putu. Back at her family compound, prepare two or three Balinese dishes, learn about spices, and eat lunch with three generations of her family. Private transfers and vegetarian or vegan options are available.

“My wife and I did this on our honeymoon and I will say it is one of the highlights of our trip. Our guide Putu was amazing. She took us around the markets and helped us cook the best meal we had on our trip. This tour is great way to get an authentic look at day to day life in Ubud.”

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