Dishes you should try in Şereflikoçhisar: Şereflikoçhisar Tahinli Pidesi (tahini flatbread), Tuz Lake Fish, Keşkek (wheat and meat dish) and Tandır Ekmeği (clay-oven bread). This guide also covers the local products to buy and what Şereflikoçhisar is famous for.
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Şereflikoçhisar Tahinli Pidesi was registered as a protected geographical indication on 10 December 2021 (TÜRKPATENT registration no. 971). Product group: bakery and pastry products, dough dishes, desserts. Registered by: Şereflikoçhisar Municipality.
Fish caught in the freshwater sources around Tuz Lake, served grilled or fried in a pan.
Keşkek, prepared by cooking cracked wheat and meat slowly for a long time and then pounding them together, is the traditional dish of wedding and holiday feasts. It is traditionally served with melted butter drizzled over it.
Bread baked in a clay tandoor oven, with a crisp crust and soft inside, one of the basic elements of rural cooking.
These dishes are known throughout Ankara province; see the provincial food guide for details.
An old Ankara dish in which sautéed meat and vegetables are baked in the oven in meat stock with rice or vermicelli; at weddings, hıdrellez and mesire picnics it is eaten with cacık, pickles and hoşaf.
An indispensable part of the Ankara breakfast.
A biscuit baked in stone ovens from flour, milk, butter and yeast, which stays fresh for a year; it received a geographical indication on 14 May 2013.
A sweet with a geographical indication, made by dipping strings of walnut kernels in molasses dough and drying them.
The best-known pickle of Ankara breakfast tables and dinner tables.
Salt production from Tuz Lake is an ancient tradition that has continued since the Hittite period. Salt has been the region's most valuable trade product throughout history.
The protection of the flamingo colony at Tuz Lake has become an important social issue in recent years as environmental awareness has grown. Drought and water use threaten the flamingo population.
Şereflikoçhisar is known for 4 local dishes, above all Şereflikoçhisar Tahinli Pidesi (tahini flatbread), Tuz Lake Fish, Keşkek (wheat and meat dish) and Tandır Ekmeği (clay-oven bread). Şereflikoçhisar Tahinli Pidesi was registered as a protected geographical indication on 10 December 2021 (TÜRKPATENT registration no. 971). Product group: bakery and pastry products, dough dishes, desserts. Registered by: Şereflikoçhisar Municipality.
Şereflikoçhisar is known for Şereflikoçhisar Tahinli Pidesi (tahini flatbread), Tuz Lake Salt and Salt Production Tradition. Its best-known sights include Tuz Lake (Tuz Gölü) and Koçhisar Castle.
Local products and souvenirs to buy in Şereflikoçhisar include Tuz Lake Salt and Wheat.