Dishes you should try in Onikişubat: Maraş Dondurması (Maraş ice cream), Kağıt Kebabı (paper kebab), Maraş Biberi Salatası (Maraş pepper salad) and Ilıca tavası (Ilıca pan dish). This guide also covers the local products to buy and what Onikişubat is famous for.
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Maraş ice cream, made with goat's milk and salep, is world-famous for its stretchy texture and its consistency that is cut with a knife.
Lamb is wrapped in greased paper with vegetables and baked in the oven.
A salad of roasted red peppers with pomegranate molasses and olive oil, an essential on Kahramanmaraş tables.
A dish counted among the local flavours of Ilıca.
These dishes are known throughout Kahramanmaraş province; see the provincial food guide for details.
A regional dish with a registered geographical indication.
Tarhana (fermented grain and yoghurt soup base) with a registered geographical indication.
A çörek (bread roll) with a registered geographical indication.
A pan-cooked dish with a registered geographical indication.
A syrupy dessert with a registered geographical indication.
The district takes its name from the Liberation of Maraş on 12 February 1920. The struggle against the French occupation earned the city the title "Hero".
Onikişubat is known for 4 local dishes, above all Maraş Dondurması (Maraş ice cream), Kağıt Kebabı (paper kebab), Maraş Biberi Salatası (Maraş pepper salad) and Ilıca tavası (Ilıca pan dish). Maraş ice cream, made with goat's milk and salep, is world-famous for its stretchy texture and its consistency that is cut with a knife.
Onikişubat is known for Maraş Dondurması (Maraş ice cream) and 12 February Liberation Heritage. Its best-known sights include Kapıçam Nature Park and Başkonuş Plateau.
Local products and souvenirs to buy in Onikişubat include Maraş Dondurması (Maraş ice cream) and Maraş Pul Biberi (Maraş dried chilli flakes).