Dishes you should try in Gümüşhacıköy: Keşkek (wheat and meat dish), Toyga Çorbası (yoghurt, flour and chickpea soup), Amasya Çöreği (walnut and cinnamon pastry) and Tandır Ekmeği (clay oven bread). This guide also covers the local products to buy and what Gümüşhacıköy is famous for.
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Keşkek, prepared by boiling and pounding cracked wheat and meat for a long time, is the traditional dish of wedding and festival tables in Gümüşhacıköy.
Made with yoghurt, flour and chickpeas, toyga soup is one of the traditional flavours of Gümüşhacıköy cuisine.
Made with walnuts and cinnamon, Amasya çöreği is also popular in Gümüşhacıköy.
Baked in a clay tandır oven, this traditional bread is indispensable at village tables in Gümüşhacıköy.
Leblebicilik (roasted chickpea making), a traditional craft, still keeps its importance in the district today.
These dishes are known throughout Amasya province; see the provincial food guide for details.
A meat dish made with small, fresh çiçek okra; it received a geographical indication on 22 November 2021.
A stuffed dish specific to Amasya, registered on 17 August 2021.
An aubergine dish that received a geographical indication on 5 April 2022.
Keşkek (wheat and meat porridge), registered on 28 July 2022.
A layered pastry registered on 16 June 2022.
Gümüşhacıköy takes its name from the silver mines worked in the Ottoman period. This mining past forms the basis of the district's cultural identity.
Traditional crafts such as coppersmithing and woodwork are still practised in Gümüşhacıköy.
A traditional rural way of life based on farming and livestock farming is still maintained in Gümüşhacıköy.
Gümüşhacıköy is known for 5 local dishes, above all Keşkek (wheat and meat dish), Toyga Çorbası (yoghurt, flour and chickpea soup), Amasya Çöreği (walnut and cinnamon pastry) and Tandır Ekmeği (clay oven bread). Keşkek, prepared by boiling and pounding cracked wheat and meat for a long time, is the traditional dish of wedding and festival tables in Gümüşhacıköy.
Gümüşhacıköy is known for Keşkek (wheat and meat dish), Elma (apples) and Mining Heritage. Its best-known sights include Gümüşhacıköy Historic Bazaar and Gümüşhacıköy Castle.
Local products and souvenirs to buy in Gümüşhacıköy include Elma (apples), Buğday (wheat) and Bal (honey).