What to Expect

An easy Budapest Cooking experience

This Do-it-yourself-meal, is a unique take on cooking classes, but this time you are the chef! You will enjoy cooking in a relax, no pressure environment. For those who love cooking and or those who aren’t very skilled this experience is for you!

Not your average Budapest cooking experience

This Do it yourself meal is specially set up and designed for the Budataste community. You get the opportunity to make your own Hungarian meal! it’s not exactly a traditional Hungarian cooking class! Here, you are the chef!

It is a step-by-step self-guided activity that takes between an hour-and-a-half to two-and-a-half hours. Importantly, there is lots of help from the staff if you need to, but it is self guided in the sense that everything you need is given to you for you to create on your own. Certainly, the fun part is doing it yourself, and eating your hard work and new Hungarian cooking skills! This is not your average Budapest cooking class! Here, you do the cooking! (But no cleaning required, of course!!!)

• This experience  offers very relaxed atmosphere, step-by-step recipes via video, nice food & good stories. After cooking you eat the meal and take home any left overs!

Description and Expectation:

We worked to create this specially made Hungarian cooking meal  just for the Budataste community. This is a new thing! Here we learn step-by-step how to make a delicious typical Hungarian Chicken paprikash and home-made Hungarian-style Rákóczi cottage cheese. You also get to try a shot of authentic Hungarian Unicum or traditional Hungarian Palinka. But you can change these drink tastings for other drinks, if you prefer something easier.

As a Budataste  community guest, you arrive at the time that you choose, to a specially set up cooking area. You’ll be given a digital tablet and all of the pre-cut and pre-mesured ingredients you’ll need in your cooking class. The digital tablet has detailed, set-by-step instructional video demonstrations, and there is someone next to you at all times to help and explain the step-by-step process. There will likely be other couple or groups cooking also, learning independently.

How does this unique Budapest cooking class works?

1. The menus and recipes are planned by well-known figures of Hungarian gastronomy and chosen by Budataste for this Budapest cooking class.
2. The meal you’ll be making is a typical Hungarian Chicken paprikash and home-made Hungarian-style Rákóczi cottage cheese, you will receive the ingredients on a wooden serving tray.
3. Everything is set up so that you don’t have to spend time on the difficult part of cooking: the onions are diced, and the cheese and spices are pre-mesured, for example.
4. your in-person helper will explain how everything works again, show you your tablet, and explain how to best use the step-by-step helping guides.
5. Cook together! The fun part is cooking together with your group or partner, with the help of each other, your in-person guide, and the step-by-step videos.
6. Once you have finished with the actual cooking, enjoy your meal with your friends or partner! Try out the traditional Hungarian Unicum or Palinka that comes with your meal!
7. No cleaning is needed, of course! The most dreaded part of cooking is taken care of!

Cook with your partner, or go in a larger group for a fun experience in an easy Budapest cooking class! The friendly and helpful staff will help lead you to a super successful cooking experience. A little help from your friends is always a fun thing, to! That might be what makes this so enjoyable, learning to cook with the people who mean the most to you.

This Budapest cooking meal is great for:

This is a great experience to learn how traditional Hungarian food is made, and to have a super fun time while at it!

What is needed?

No cooking skills are required because you will have your guide to help you along the way. Meals will be prepared by you, but the staff will guide you when needed.

This is one of our favorite experiences, but we do have others available! These include also a city and food tour!

This experience  offers very relaxed atmosphere, step-by-step recipes via video, nice food & good stories. After cooking you eat the meal and take home any left overs!

Gain very valuable insight and practice into the various techniques of food preparation and the cooking style used in traditional Hungarian homes.

The program goes like this:

11:30-13:30 Finally, Cooking time.

13:30–14:00 After cooking we eat the meals together and celebrate our culinary accomplishment over some traditional Hungarian Palinka or Unicum.

Our price includes:

• A 1.5- to 2 hour long guided culinary and cultural adventure
• All the ingredients necessary for the class
• Palinka (Hungarian fruit brandy) or Unicum
• Water
• Gifted Recipes via email after the cooking class

Sometimes you want a little more freedom then you usually get in a typical Budapest food tour that is guided.

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