Dishes you should try in Karaçoban: Cağ Kebabı (horizontal spit-roasted lamb), Ayran Aşı (yoghurt and wheat soup) and Lor Dolması (cheese and herb pastry). This guide also covers the local products to buy and what Karaçoban is famous for.
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Cağ kebabı is prepared by roasting lamb on a horizontal spit over a wood fire. In Karaçoban, it has a special flavour from the sheep raised on the district's plateaus.
Traditional soup made with yoghurt, cracked wheat and mint, a nourishing dish that never goes missing from tables during Karaçoban's cold winter days.
Traditional pastry made by wrapping a filling of lor cheese and herbs in yufka dough. It is one of the distinctive flavours of Karaçoban cuisine.
These dishes are known throughout Erzurum province; see the provincial food guide for details.
A kebab with a registered geographical indication, cooked on a horizontal skewer over a wood fire and served on the cağ skewer.
Shredded kadayıf filled with walnuts and soaked in syrup; it has a registered geographical indication.
A registered börek made with layers of boiled yufka and cheese.
A registered soup made with yoghurt, wheat and herbs.
A syrupy dough dessert with a registered geographical indication.
A registered traditional dessert made with flour, butter and sugar.
Karaçoban takes its name from the nomadic Turkmen tribes of the region. The plateau migration tradition, practised for centuries, forms the basis of the district's cultural identity.
The people of Karaçoban migrate to the high plateaus of the Bingöl Mountains in summer to raise livestock. This tradition deeply shapes the social life and food culture of the area.
Karaçoban is known for 3 local dishes, above all Cağ Kebabı (horizontal spit-roasted lamb), Ayran Aşı (yoghurt and wheat soup) and Lor Dolması (cheese and herb pastry). Cağ kebabı is prepared by roasting lamb on a horizontal spit over a wood fire. In Karaçoban, it has a special flavour from the sheep raised on the district's plateaus.
Karaçoban is known for Cağ Kebabı (horizontal spit-roasted lamb), Karaçoban Honey and Konar-Göçer Culture. Its best-known sights include Karaçoban Castle and Foothills of the Bingöl Mountains.
Local products and souvenirs to buy in Karaçoban include Karaçoban Honey and Civil Peyniri (civil cheese).