While you are on a Cappadocia tour, you can be sure not to go hungry. The dishes of Cappadocia and Nevşehir are very tasty and delicious. Also there are lots of Cappadocia restaurants. So, what to eat in Cappadocia?
If you’re ready, let’s start. Let’s explore what should we eat at restaurants in Cappadocia Turkey.
1. Testi Kebabı
Kebab slowly cooked with vegetables in Avanos pots. Like all slow-fire meats, the jug kebab is also soft. Since it is cooked in the juice of the vegetables next to it, the aromas are mixed together and you eat it by mixing the bread into its water.
The presentation of the jug kebab is good. The pottery brought to the table is broken by the waiter from the throat and the contents are served.
2. Apricot Stew
It is one of the famous dishes of Anatolia where fruit and meat are combined. In this recipe, which belongs to Nevşehir cuisine, the main ingredients are dried apricots and lamb, but if there are no dried apricots, yellow prunes can be preferred instead. If the apricot or plum is not very sweet, a little molasses is added while cooking.
3. Chickpea Stew
Originally, it is cooked in a pot or tandoor, buried in embers. Chickpeas are soaked in water overnight. The next day, the onion and mutton are fried in oil, added water and tomato paste and combined with chickpeas. It is buried in the embers fire in the tandoor to cook it slowly.
4. Düğü Soup
The Düğü Soup is a fine type of bulgur. Düğü Soup is a practical type of soup made with roasted tomato paste with butter and water.
5. Gendirme
If you’ve heard the name keşkek before, Gendirme is the same as this dish. The difference from keşkek is that the wheat remains in grain, not crushed, as it is in keşkek.
6. Zerde Rice
It is a pilaf unique to Nevşehir region. Just like the stuffed rice, it has a slightly sweetish flavor that comes from dried fruit. Zerde rice is a two-layer rice. It consists of pilaf with molasses and grapes on the lower layer and classic pilaf with chickpeas on the upper layer.
7. Stuffed Quince
Quince is very popular in Ottoman cuisine. Stuffed Quince is a dish consisting of a combination of fruit and meat. According to Nevşehir method, the quince is filled with spicy minced meat and cooked without rice.
8. Stuffed Leaves
Cappadocia is famous for its vineyards. These grape leaves, which are also used as wraps, are very delicious. You can easily find stuffed grape leaves on the menu of most restaurants in Cappadocia.
9. Mantı
Nevşehir mantı is a type of ravioli that is much easier to make than Kayseri mantı. The most important points that differ from it are that it is baked in the oven, that it is made with bread dough, and that it is made into small donuts like classic ravioli, not halide, but as a roll with minced onions and then sliced and cooked.
You should definitely eat Cappadocia ravioli while driving on a Cappadocia tour.
10. Dolaz
A version of flour halva with eggs and walnuts unique to the Cappadocia region. Instead of sugar, only grape molasses or honey is used to flavor it.
11. Dry Cream
This cream is an amazing cream. It’s like a wafer of milk!
It is not soft like cream spread on traditional bread, but solid enough to be cut with a knife and broken by hand. Boiling the milk, resting the cream, drying the cream requires at least 5 days of labor. It can last 10-15 days in the refrigerator.
It is produced only in Kaymaklı (pay attention to the name) Village of Derinkuyu district of Nevşehir. Dry cream is one of the registered delicacies of the village. So you have to do some distance to taste the dry cream. It is sold in most shops in Kaymaklı and Derinkuyu. Either eat it with jam or honey.
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