Maya Cooking Class

Do you want to discover traditional Yucatan food? In this cooking class, we'll learn how to make delicious ancestral dishes from the pre-Columbian era in a Maya village on the outskirts of Valladolid.

Activity Details

At the scheduled time, we'll meet at X-Batun, a Maya village in Yucatan found just 10 minutes by car from Valladolid.

After being welcomed by the community, we'll participate in a Maya cooking class where we will prepare 5 ancestral dishes using fresh ingredients to replicate cooking methods from pre-Columbian times.

The first dish will be tzotobichay, a chaya and pumpkin seed tamale. Next, we'll prepare sikil pák, a pumpkin seed and tomato pasta. The class will continue with píbil kaa, which combines marinated chicken with sour oranges, achiote, and spices, wrapped in banana leaves and cooked in an oven in the ground.

The 4th dish will be an encamisado, involving hand-made tortillas filled with meat, vegetables, and typical ingredients. To conclude, we will create a traditional Yucatan dessert using cacao, honey, cinnamon, and piloncillo.

We will complete this cooking class after a total of 3 hours.