Tavas Baklava and Tavas Honey Tahini Pita

Tavas Baklava is a dumpling with sherbet prepared with unique traditional ingredients and methods on all special occasions such as engagement, wedding and holidays. Making Tavas Baklava, which leaves an unforgettable taste on the palates with walnuts poured into each layer of 40 layers of phyllo meeting sherbet, requires a different skill. What makes Tavas Baklava special is the ingredients and cooking technique used in it. The Baklava phyllo is rolled up using “urga flour”, which is a mixture of wheat, whole wheat and barley flour. It is cooked for 25-30 minutes in a wood oven called a black oven in a copper tray over an oak wood fire. In order to get the real taste of Tavas Baklava, it must be rested for a day. It is recommended to eat the baklava, which is ready for service, by hand.

The famous taste of Tavas, Pide with Tahini with Honey, is consumed as a dessert, unlike traditional pita. Dough meringues made of yeast dough are rolled by hand and covered with tahini mixture. After resting for a while, pide with tahini, cooked on a wood fire, is sweetened by pouring honey on it and served hot. This pita, which must be tasted, is called “İçli-Dışlı” by Tavas people.