Dishes you should try in Nurdağı: Nurdağı Tandır Kebabı (lamb slow-cooked in a clay tandır oven), Yörük Mantısı (Yörük dumplings) and Tarhana Çorbası (dried yoghurt and wheat soup). This guide also covers the local products to buy and what Nurdağı is famous for.
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This kebab, made by slow-cooking lamb in a clay tandır oven, is known for meat that falls apart in the mouth. It is served in traditional ways in the local restaurants of Nurdağı.
Small dumplings from the Yörük culture of Nurdağı, served with yoghurt and buttered sauce. Their hand-rolled thin dough and minced-meat filling make them a traditional delicacy.
Tarhana, made by drying yoghurt, tomato and wheat flour and grinding them into powder, is an essential soup of Nurdağı's winter months.
These dishes are known throughout Gaziantep province; see the provincial food guide for details.
Made with green pistachios and clarified butter, the first Turkish product to receive EU registration, in 2013.
A registered dessert made with pistachios and clotted cream, eaten in the morning.
A spicy soup made with lamb, rice and garlic, drunk at breakfast.
A lahmacun with minced meat on thin dough, registered as a geographical indication.
A registered festive dish of yoghurt with chickpea-sized meatballs.
Kebab on a bed of yoghurt with smoked aubergine; registered as a geographical indication.
Nurdağı is one of the settlement areas of the Aydınlı Yörük tribe. Yörük traditions, traces of a nomadic way of life and handicrafts shape the district's cultural identity.
The magnitude 7.8 earthquake of 6 February 2023, whose epicentre was near Nurdağı, caused great destruction in the district. The reconstruction process is ongoing, and earthquake monuments and memorial areas are being created.
Nurdağı is known for 3 local dishes, above all Nurdağı Tandır Kebabı (lamb slow-cooked in a clay tandır oven), Yörük Mantısı (Yörük dumplings) and Tarhana Çorbası (dried yoghurt and wheat soup). This kebab, made by slow-cooking lamb in a clay tandır oven, is known for meat that falls apart in the mouth. It is served in traditional ways in the local restaurants of Nurdağı.
Nurdağı is known for Nurdağı Tandır Kebabı (lamb slow-cooked in a clay tandır oven), Nurdağı Olive Oil and Yörük Culture. Its best-known sights include Sakçagözü Mound and Gedikli Mound.
Local products and souvenirs to buy in Nurdağı include Nurdağı Olive Oil and Mountain Thyme and Medicinal Herbs.