Half Day Indian Spice Tour and Hands-on Cooking

Name: Half Day Indian Spice Tour and Hands-on Cooking
Start: 2026-12-12T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-12-12T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Mukti's Kitchen

Mukti's Kitchen

4.7 250 reviews

Explore Indian spices in this immersive market tour and cooking experience. Visit local markets to select the freshest spices, then grind them by hand to release their full flavor. Continue into the kitchen to prepare flavorful dishes using your freshly ground spices, and enjoy a shared meal rich with vibrant aromas.

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If you've ever wondered where to get the best Indian spices in Brooklyn, then wonder no more. Join us for, our half-day Indian Spice Tour. During this class, we’ll walk to nearby Bangladeshi and Pakistani stores along Coney Island, McDonald and Church Avenues. After shopping for our ingredients, with me (Mukti) as your guide, we will return to my kitchen to prepare a wonderful meal for us to enjoy as we relax and talk about our adventure.

After we cook our meal, we'll sit down and eat together, and savor the dinner as well as the spices. You'll know so much more about the qualities, quantities, and various attributes of the spices that you now can use in your own cooking. And feel happy and comfortable about it. Throughout history, spices have held an important value in Indian cuisine. It is one of the most wonderful groups of ingredients ever given to any cook.

Anyone can use spices to cook any kind of dish, but not everyone knows how to use them to their fullest potential. Walking down the spice aisle, there are a lot of powdered spices from all types of brand ranging from expensive to cheap. We might assume that maybe the one that costs the most is the best. However, the best powdered spices are the ones that we grind ourselves. In our Indian Spice Tour, we will be visiting Bangladeshi and Pakistani stores near my kitchen, where you will learn how to pick out the best spices for a good price.

In this spice tour with me, I will teach you everything you need to know about spices, and you will then become a spice expert. After our spice trip and knowing more about spices, we will go back to my kitchen, where everything you just learn will be put to use. We will begin with grinding spices into powdered form, and from there you will be able to smell the differences between store- bought and homemade spices.

Then we will proceed to cook a few dishes using the spices you just ground, because freshly-ground spices bring the most flavor out of each dish. At the end, we will sit down and enjoy the food we just made.

After this spice tour and cooking class, not only will you know how to cook Indian food, but you will also realize that grinding the spices at home makes every dish more flavorful and that it is also cost-efficient.

What's included

You will eat like a king

Menu:

chana saag
aloo gobi
Butter chicken
Lasuni dal
Roti/fluffy basmati rice

School Notes:

Mukti's Kitchen doesn't offer refunds for both provider-initiated and student-initiated cancellations. Please refer to the Cancellation Policy tab for more information. No exceptions will be made after the order has been placed.

Refund Policy

We are sorry that we cannot issue refunds for classes, but you may send someone in your place or choose another class if you cannot make it for any reason.

We do require at least 3 business days of notice for us to provide credit for another class, otherwise we are left with an empty spot and not enough time to refill it off the waiting list.

If we don't get three or more students, we will reschedule the class for another day and we will communicate with you via email. If the class gets canceled for any reason we will let you know in advance.

For snowy days, please contact us and we will let you know if the class is still being held.

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Important: Please note that all classes are non-refundable and class cancellations made by the school and students alike are covered in the above policy.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

Reviews of Classes at Mukti's Kitchen (250)

(4.7-star rating across 250 reviews)

This class: 5.0 out of 5 from 12 reviews

Half Day Indian Spice Tour and Hands-on Cooking

jeremy r. • January 13, 2020

Mukti was full of knowledge and extremely helpful!
Half Day Indian Spice Tour and Hands-on Cooking

Kenneth B. • October 28, 2019
Half Day Indian Spice Tour and Hands-on Cooking

Diana G. • January 14, 2019
Half Day Indian Spice Tour and Hands-on Cooking

lisa v. • December 23, 2018
Half Day Indian Spice Tour and Hands-on Cooking

Brandon W. • November 25, 2018

Great class! A fun stroll through the neighborhood for spice shopping and learning more about how to choose / find high quality spices. Finished up with some hands on cooking at Mukti's home to prepare 3 dishes - great concepts and basis for starting to experiment at home.
Half Day Indian Spice Tour and Hands-on Cooking

S. ROBERT A. • November 25, 2018

Great instruction. Not too much, not too little. Great food as well. I highly recommend this course.
Half Day Indian Spice Tour and Hands-on Cooking

Melissa M. • July 30, 2018

This was one of the best classes I've ever taken, and I've taken a bunch (pottery, welding, glassblowing, stunt jumping, pie making etc.). Mukti is such a gracious host and her hospitality is soothing for the soul. She is knowledgeable, authentic, patient and sincere. Her food is a song in your mouth! She taught us about spices, what to look for; the stores to purchase these spices and the health benefits of many of the spices. We asked so many questions about the products in the stores and she took her time to explain everything. To quote her, "Pour your love into it and close the circle of the dish with the spice used for seasoning while cooking as a finishing touch on top-full circle." The dishes were amazing and the rice was so fluffy. I actually didn't want to leave her home- yes we were in her home! Additionally, the Indian spice company SWAD should sponsor her! In closing, this was a memorable experience (a memory) and I would give Muktiskitchen and Mukti my highest recommendation. I want to take more of her classes and am looking forward to giving this class as gifts to friends and family. It was an honor to meet such an amazing human and chef!
Half Day Indian Spice Tour and Hands-on Cooking

Robert P. • June 24, 2018

Very friendly and accurate description.
Half Day Indian Spice Tour and Hands-on Cooking

Joe H. • April 20, 2018

Loved Mukti's class! She showed us the spices used in Indian food. More than that—she showed us how to choose the best quality spices and where to find them.
Half Day Indian Spice Tour and Hands-on Cooking

Debra S. • April 8, 2018

This class was perfection! We’ve taken cooking classes all over Europe - who knew the best would be in our own backyard?!? We’re telling everyone about Mukti, and picking out more classes to take from her. Are there more than 5 stars? She IS a star!
Half Day Indian Spice Tour and Hands-on Cooking

Christopher G. • August 26, 2017
Half Day Indian Spice Tour and Hands-on Cooking

Melanie W. • June 6, 2016

Cooking with Mukti is an AMAZING experience! I have always been intimidated by cooking Indian food (it just seemed too complex!). I signed up for Mukti's Spice Tour and she took us around the neighborhood and showed us how to recognize quality ingredients - we then returned to her home to actually cook a delicious meal. Mukti showed us cooking techniques that simplified the process - but my favorite part was her enthusiasm for the science behind the cooking. She didn't just show us what to do - she explained why we doing it. Aside from being knowledgeable, Mukti was extremely inviting (the cooking class takes place in her own kitchen) and fun to be around. Can't wait until her cookbook comes out and hope that I'll be able to return for another class soon! My only wish is that I had found her on her website instead of via coursehorse, as it would have been nice to have had the entire fee go to a small business owner.

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