Corfiot culinary experience - Villa Jolie

Cooking Course

An authentic Corfiot culinary experience

Mrs. Vasiliki Karounou, Ambelonas’ owner and cook, convinced that an authentic traditional wine needs to be combined with authentic foods, undertook a search of forgotten flavours, explored historical sources and by experimenting with local ingredients has resulted and published a cookbook with traditional local recipes that brings back the cooking secrets and flavors of previous generations on the island and served at Ambelonas’ restaurant. 

Ambelonas Corfu offers food from pure local ingredients – dishes of traditional and fusion flavors; delivers workshops in authentic traditional Corfiot cooking; hosts tasting tours of the wine produced by our family along with local quality produce and various entertainment and artistic events.

This unique experience will include:

  1. A welcome to Ambelonas Corfu: with a herbal tea (e.g. lemon verbena, lavender and lemon) or cold red wine with citrus fruits
  2. A short presentation: history of the place, the vineyard, wild herbs and vegetables, the equipment and the processes for traditional olive and wine making along with a 6′ video.
  3. Learning about the principles, ingredients and techniques of Corfiot cuisine and the Corfiot culinary culture
  4. Tasting local products along with tsipouro and/or Ambelonas’ wine Cooking traditional recipes with fresh, local ingredients;
  5. Tasting and discussing dishes at different stages of cooking
  6. Enjoying a full 5 course meal accompanied with authentic local wines
  7. Receiving a copy of our cookbook – “Corfiot Cuisine – in search of the origins” (170 pages) by Vasiliki Karounou, in Greek, English or German.

The cooking classes may be either “Hands on” or “Demonstration” by Vasiliki Karounou. The duration of “Hands on” is 4-6 hrs and “Demonstration” 2-4 hrs depending on the selected menu.

The “Hands on” cooking class is recommended for families or a group of friends up 16 individuals. Individuals that are not so interested in cooking but they love eating the foods served are also welcome.

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