Daily Turkish Cooking Class Tour from Didim – Tarhana Soup & Fig Dessert

Didim Day Trip for Food Lovers: Hands-On Turkish Cooking Class

Our daily Didim cooking tour is a relaxed, flavour-filled day tour in which you learn to prepare classic Aegean dishes with a professional cook at a local restaurant, then sit down to enjoy the meal you have made. Departing from Didim with hotel pickup, this daily excursion is a lovely change of pace from beaches and ruins and gives you recipes to take home.

• Professional cooking lesson in a local restaurant
• Tarhana soup – a traditional Turkish soup with a tangy, comforting flavour
• Stuffed vine leaves in olive oil – grape leaves wrapped around spiced rice
• Fresh fish prepared the Aegean way
• Fig dessert – a sweet speciality widely made around Didim
• Free time in Didim centre for a stroll and shopping

Didim is best known for its coastline and the Temple of Apollo at Didyma, but the district also has a proud kitchen built on olive oil, garden produce, seafood and fruit. Tarhana is one of the oldest staples of Anatolian cooking, a soup base made from fermented grain, yoghurt and vegetables that is dried and stored for winter. Vine leaves stuffed with rice and spices and dressed in olive oil, known locally as zeytinyagli sarma, are a fixture of every Aegean table, while fresh fish reflects the town's seaside setting. To finish, you prepare a fig dessert, a local favourite that uses one of the region's signature fruits.

Your guide accompanies you throughout, explaining ingredients and kitchen techniques in English, and lunch is the meal you cook together. Afterwards there is free time in the town centre before the transfer back to your hotel. This Didim day trip suits couples, families and anyone curious about Turkish food culture; no previous cooking experience is needed.