The newly opened Villa Belle Epoque, Cairo’s first boutique hotel, is inviting guests to learn how to cook some of Egypt’s finest dishes, whilst enjoying a three night stay at the hotel.

Pastry Chef, Abdel Hamid Mohamed and owner Beryl El Gendy’s mother-in-law Mrs, Souad Zaki, author of a collection of Middle Eastern cooking books, will show guests how to prepare some of the spectacular desert dishes, including:

Umm’Ali – the national desert of Egypt, made with crushed pastry sheets drained in sweetened milk, mixed together with nuts, raisins, coconut and cream before being baked in the oven.

Baklawa bi-l-ishta – baklava cream; a small pastry consisting of many thin layers of puff pastry, filled with cream and the rolled and topped with sugar syrup.

Atayif bil-mukassart – an Egyptian style pancake, filled with mixed nuts, fried and coated in syrup sugar.

Hotel Chef, Yasser Alawi together with Mrs Souad Zaki, are set to also demonstrate to guests a cookery class teaching guests how to cook and prepare some of the country’s most exquisite dishes.

Guests can learn how to cook Ruzz with Khalta; fried rice with mixed nuts, raisins, chopped liver and cinnamon, Bamia; an orkra stewed with beef or lamb cutlets in a rich tomato and onion sauce; Mumbar Mahshi: beef chitterlings stuffed with minced beef and rice and lots of spices, cardamom and mastic grains and many more.

Enjoy this fantastic three day break from only £635 per person, departures from August until December 2009, including all flights, transfers and cooking lessons, on a Bed and Breakfast basis.

Call our experts now on 08456 345 112 to find out more.