About this Experience

At the Nyamirambo Women's Centre, this hands-on cooking class brings you into a working local kitchen. Over five hours you prepare familiar home dishes — Ugali, fried fish, and mashed potatoes — while working on the centre's locally made stoves and ovens. The emphasis is practical: you cook alongside the hosts, not only watch. The women's centre team guides every step. They explain why ingredients are used in daily meals and show the simple techniques that keep these recipes alive in the neighbourhood. Guests are usually excited when they actually get to cook on the locally made stoves and cooking ovens. Your day begins with a short introduction to the ingredients and the stoves, then moves into the hands-on session where you learn to prepare each dish. With guidance from the centre’s cooks you mix, fry, and simmer, tasting as you go. The class finishes with a shared sit-down lunch of the food you have made and time to ask questions. Experience highlights: • Cook on locally made stoves and ovens with hands-on guidance. • Learn to make Ugali, fried fish, and mashed potatoes from start to finish. • Share a sit-down lunch of the dishes you prepared, with drinks provided. This practical, community-led class is built around doing and sharing — you leave having cooked a full lunch and having cooked alongside the women's centre team.