Cooking class in Saparua the Moluccas

You could take an extra cooking class in Saparua, when you travel to Saparua island about two hours by fast boat from Ambon Island.

You will visit local house, where the local woman will invite you to make a sagoo cookie. This is an important cookie for the people in the whole island of The Moluccas, since these cookies become regional stapple and carried by people when they are travelling.

In this cooking class you will try to make Sagoo cookies for breakfast with main ingredients of Sagoo flour, palm sugar and coconut. This delicious cookies normally your eat in the morning with tea or coffee. When a fisherman want to go on the sea fo fishing for several days, then they will bring the same form of sagoo cookies, only the ingredients a bit different, that are: sagoo flour, coconut & salt then dry it in the sun for a day and these cookies can last up to 10 days.

Enjoy your cooking class!