The 9 best cooking classes to do in Toulouse

French gastronomy is one of the most recognized, few are French people who know how to exploit it! Become a chef thanks to these cooking classes in Toulouse.

Toulouse, the singing accent, the rosé alleys and above all... the gastronomy of the South-West! Between the sausage of Toulouse, the foie gras or the cassoulet, the typical dishes of this city are not missing.

Yet, like the whole of France, the “cooks of Sunday” are becoming increasingly rare, and few people know how to cook good small dishes for their loved ones, or for themselves. But thanks to the cooking classes available in Toulouse, you can change your eating habits!

Indeed, many gastronomy workshops are available in the Toulouse region to allow you to learn to feed you healthierly, with more taste and refinement, all in warm and friendly atmospheres. A healthy occupation, therefore, which can only bring you positive, to put a little more sun in your plates!

1. Realize your pastries

To start the day, what better than a good breakfast? And to no longer have to get up to go to the bakery, this cooking workshop in Toulouse teaches you how to realize your own pastries. In fact, at Muriel, a pastry craftsman, you will discover all the secrets of making delicious croissants and chocolate breads, also known as chocolates in the region.

In addition to these two classics of French pastries, Muriel will teach you a third surprise recipe, which will vary according to his moods and desires. Once the 3 hours of activities have been completed, you will leave your arms loaded with a dozen pastries, to delight your whole family or friends!

Believe us, thanks to this cooking workshop in Toulouse, you will become the heads of Sunday brunch.

2. Make your artisanal mozzarella

When the summer points to the tip of its nose, that the heat starts to get felt, the time of the salads appears. And what better to start the meal than a small tomato-mozzarella salad? Well, if you don't learn how to grow tomatoes, here is a cooking class in Toulouse that will teach you to prepare your own mozzarella!

Thanks to the unique explanations of Anthony, and in its direction of transmission, you will become a real cheese chef, and can learn to make a burrata, a mozzarella and even a burrata stracciatella .

Once the workshop is finished, you will leave with your preparations, namely 150 grams of each of the cheeses mentioned above.

3. Make a tomme and ricotta

Meet Anthony, to learn this time the manufacture and development of a tomme and ricotta. This workshop is a unique moment to enter an original urban dairy and discover the world of cheese.

Start this cooking class in Toulouse directly with the practice with the milk-filling stage, the real "recipe" of these dairy products so appreciated by the French. While milk will work in coagulation, Anthony will let you discover the details and techniques to develop different large families of cheese.

Once the recipes are made, you will share a special moment with other learners by enjoying your creations of the day. In addition, you will leave with a 500g head and about 80g of ricotta, happiness to share!

4. Prepare your homemade pizza

After learning to make your own mozzarella and ricotta, why not decide to place it on a homemade pizza? This is the cooking class in Toulouse that Liz offers you, a teacher in this field!

After a quizz on this great Italian culinary speciality, you will initiate yourself to “abaisse”, a technique that consists in hand spreading your pizza dough without tearing it. Once this stage is successful, you will learn to combine the different ingredients (always fresh), including the combination of flavors, in order to get more delicious pizzas.

Once the pizza is finished, it only remains to cook it in a real pizza oven, before going to the crucial moment but more than delicious... tasting! Enjoy a relaxing moment with your pizza friends of the day, and especially your delicious pizza. To reproduce at home!

5. Discover all the secrets of a pizzaïolo

Your introduction to pizza was not enough for you, and you want to deepen your knowledge to become a true pizza master? No worries, Liz created a cooking class in Toulouse absolutely perfect for you.

At two hours of the previous workshop, you will add two new hours in which Liz will absolutely explain all the secrets of a good pizza dough, its ingredients in the small lines to its topping, and how to let it rest. You will also be able to ask him all the questions, even the most fierce, about his profession, Liz will be happy to answer you!

To be determined : any allergy or food intolerance of a participant must be reported preferably when booking or at least one week before the workshop.

6. Create three dairy products

Before we go to dessert, it is in the Anthony workshop that we make a detour again, for a cooking course in Toulouse not like the others! In fact, in this three-hour workshop, you can learn how to make three daily dairy products: butter, fresh cheese and curd!

Depending on the production of the moment, you will have, for your workshop, sheep, bufflonne or cow from herds in the region Occitania . And believe us, this cooking class in Toulouse is not at all rest. You will drain, weigh, stretch, bark, customize, short, you will cook with love, and effort!

After all these emotions, a good time will await you when you can enjoy your products and other products offered by Anthony, accompanied by a glass of wine or fruit juice. In addition, you will leave with about 150g of butter, 300g of fresh cheese and 500g of curd.

7. Make your letter cake

Do you know what a letter cake ? It is finally very simple, just literally translate to understand: this cooking workshop in Toulouse will teach you to make a cake in the form of a letter! In this way, you will become the next official clerk for birthday cakes, for a personalized delight.

During this workshop, Muriel will teach you to make a sweet paste, before setting up two different creams that will also serve you as a decoration. Then you will have to let your creativity speak and apply a multitude of decors, for a cake as beautiful as it is!

8. Build your flashes and nuns

After the letter cake, find Muriel for a new cooking workshop in Toulouse, once again dedicated to pastry. Here you will learn to become a real leader of these classics of French pastry that are the nuns and the flashes!

You will start by making your paste, which will be successful for sure if you follow the wise advice of the pastry chef. Then you'll create a scented and creamy pastry. You will learn during this workshop to use the socket pocket to shape and garnish your cabbages and lightning, and to decorate them as pros.

And to finish on a beautiful note, you will leave with two flashes and two nuns created by your care!

9. Make your lemon pie

For this last cooking workshop in Toulouse, it is a classic pastry shop in the south of France that we propose to discover: the meringue lemon pie. You will first work the base of any pie, the sweet paste, before you attack the wonderful creamy lemon, as beautiful as good. Finally, you will learn to make a perfect Italian airline that will embellish your pie.

You will discover the different techniques such as the foncing of the dough or the use of a socket pocket, to become a real pastry chef.

Obviously, you'll go home with your creation, unless you finish it on the way...