Beef delight. Making delicious Turkish delight with your own hands

Turkish delight is a traditional, perhaps the most famous oriental sweet. All oriental recipes are not particularly difficult to prepare, but, nevertheless, they invariably have an excellent, incomparable taste and aroma. It is precisely Turkish delight that is the clearest confirmation of this rule; it is not for nothing that in the East this magnificent sweetness is called nothing more than “a piece of pleasure.” To prepare Turkish delight, you need the simplest, most affordable, and most importantly natural products. No flavor enhancers, animal fat or palm oil for you! That is why Turkish delight belongs to the category of ecological, healthy confectionery products. In addition, Turkish delight, made on a purely plant basis, is a real treat for vegetarians or people who observe strict fasting.

Ingredients:

1 cup fruit or berry puree
300 gr. Sahara
200 ml. water for syrup + 150 ml. water for starch
1 cup cornstarch + 2 tbsp. for sprinkling
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1/2 cup powdered sugar

First, prepare the sugar syrup. To do this, pour 200 ml into a ladle or small saucepan. water, add sugar.

Add a spoon of lemon juice.

Stirring, heat, and then boil for 5-10 minutes. In this case, the sugar completely dissolves, and the resulting syrup thickens slightly. The finished syrup for Turkish delight should leave clearly visible streaks on the walls of the saucepan.
While the sugar syrup is boiling, we have time to prepare fruit or berry puree. Any fruit and berries are suitable for puree. Of course, it’s very beautiful when there are multi-colored cubes of Turkish delight in a vase or on a tray, but to achieve this, you will have to tinker and prepare several servings of sweetness, each time using a new fruit base. For red Turkish delight, strawberry or cranberry puree is suitable, for green - from kiwi, for yellow - from apricots, peaches or oranges, for purple - from black currant or chokeberry. Moreover, you can use both fresh and canned fruits.
As a first try, I suggest making Turkish delight from orange. This is my favorite option. The result is an incredibly fragrant sweetness with a slight sourness. Although, what am I explaining to you, my dear readers, you all remember the taste of orange marmalade very well!
To prepare orange puree, peel the orange and divide it into slices. Grind the slices with a blender until a homogeneous mass is obtained.

Pour the orange puree into the syrup standing on the fire.

In the version with orange, there is no need to strain the puree, since the orange is completely ground with a blender knife, but if you are preparing Turkish delight from kiwi or other berries containing small seeds, then I advise you to rub the puree through a coarse sieve to remove seeds or large pieces of skin.
After we put the fruit puree into the syrup, mix the resulting mixture well and boil for a few more minutes.
Dilute starch in 150 ml. water. Mix thoroughly until completely dissolved.

Pour the starch solution into the sugar-orange syrup in a thin stream and continue to cook over low heat.

Without ceasing, stir the mixture with a wooden spatula. The starch-fruit mixture begins to thicken very quickly. Moreover, it thickens not throughout the entire volume, but by forming separate clots. This is fine. We continue to vigorously stir and soon the clots will grow and combine into a thick paste.

You need to be vigilant to ensure that nothing burns; if this happens, reduce the heat.
After 3-5 minutes, the paste will thicken so much that mixing it will become quite difficult. This means that our Turkish delight has been cooked and now after cooling it will harden well and will not become soggy.
At the end of cooking, place the mixture in a flat cooking dish, previously generously sprinkled with starch. The shape can be any: glass, silicone, detachable, etc. The dimensions of the mold should be such that the prepared mixture forms a layer 2.5-3 cm thick on it.

To make the surface of the mixture smooth and without bumps, lightly sprinkle it with starch and then press it down with a spoon. Thanks to starch, the mixture does not stick to the spoon.

Let the form with hot Turkish delight cool at room temperature for 10-12 hours.
After cooling, cover the mold with a cutting board and turn the entire structure upside down. The layer of Turkish delight is very easily separated from the mold and dumped onto the board.
A layer of Turkish delight is cut with a sharp knife into square pieces measuring 2.5-3 cm. Considering that the thickness of the layer was approximately the same, the result is nice, even cubes.

Roll the Turkish delight cubes in cornstarch, shake off the excess, then repeat this operation, but with powdered sugar. You can add more powdered sugar and even sprinkle it generously on our sun cubes, this is an additional protection against sticking.

That's all, the magnificent fruity Turkish delight is ready. You can enjoy the taste and imagine yourself in the exotic east. Yes, one more little thing: it is better to store Turkish delight in a vase with a lid or a closed taper in a cool place, away from sunlight.

Perhaps the most famous oriental delicacy is Turkish delight, translated from Turkish it means “convenient pieces”, in Arabic it means “sweetness for the throat”.

According to legend, Turkish delight was invented for the great Turkish Sultan, who once broke his tooth on a hard candy and got angry with the confectioner.

The latter was forced to come up with another soft delicacy overnight. Another legend says that the Sultan was very loving, and the sweet was invented as an exquisite preliminary treat for the Sultan’s beloved women.

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What is Turkish Delight made from: calorie content and composition

In Turkey, Turkish delight, photos of which are presented in our article, is a popular delicacy. Today there is a huge variety of types of Turkish delight:

walnut;
fruit;
honey;
white;
fig;
and others.

Traditionally, recipes contain cornstarch, flour, nuts, sugar and a variety of fruit ingredients such as juice or berries. How many calories are in Turkish delight?

Benefits and harms

Let's figure out what Turkish delight is, what it's made from (composition), in order to determine how much harm and benefit can be obtained from consuming it.

So, what are the benefits of Turkish delight? The increased calorie content of Turkish Delight does not mean that this sweetness should be classified as a harmful product. Thanks to the glucose included in the composition, brain functions and cardiac activity are normalized, serotonin is produced - the hormone of good mood and high performance. Besides, glucose has a good effect on the general condition of hair, skin and nails.

When combined with cornstarch, glucose forms an immune-boosting component. For the most part, the benefits depend on the flavor components that are traditionally included in Turkish delight: the fruit is enriched with vitamins, and honey improves digestion and blood quality.

A large proportion of nutrients are found in nuts, which are contained in Turkish delight. Nutrients are not destroyed during heat treatment and affect mental activity and the functioning of the cardiovascular system.

Due to the sugar included in the recipe and the increased calorie content Excessive consumption of Turkish delight can lead to diabetes, hypertension and obesity, therefore, it is better for people with chronic diseases or leading a sedentary lifestyle to avoid sweets. Plus, the delicacy spoils the enamel and can cause tooth decay.

You should be especially careful about fruit types of Turkish delight when breastfeeding, most of them contain dyes and flavors. Citrus juices and honey can cause allergies in a baby if they enter his body through breast milk.

Many people talk about the benefits and harms of Turkish delight. The classic type of sweet, consumed in small quantities, will do no harm at all, but it is better to introduce it into the diet gradually, monitoring for a possible allergic reaction. So that the freshness and quality of the product are not in doubt and you can get the maximum benefit from it, it is better to prepare Turkish Turkish delight, recipes with photos of which you will find in the next section, at home yourself.

Turkish delight: recipes

Many people bring Turkish delight from Turkey for themselves and their relatives (the average price in Turkey is about 7 liras). But you can prepare this delicacy at home. So, how to make Turkish delight at home? There are many options for preparing this delicacy; below we will present step-by-step instructions for the most popular Turkish delight recipes; photos and videos are also presented below for a better understanding of the cooking process.

Apple

The apple Turkish delight recipe is quite simple. We will need:

120g. corn starch;
50g. Sahara;
50g. walnuts;
4 apples;
coconut flakes and water.

First you need to prepare apple jam. To do this, pour a little water into the saucepan and add sugar. Peeled, cored and cut apples are dipped into the syrup, where they languish a little. Finely chopped walnuts are also added there.
Starch must be dissolved in cold water and poured into the boiling mass in a thin stream. All this time the jam must be stirred until it becomes thick and transparent. This is the most difficult part of the apple Turkish delight recipe - the sweetness will simmer on the fire for at least an hour.
The bottom and edges of the mold are covered with cling film, where the hot mass is laid out.
After it has cooled, it needs to be placed in the refrigerator to harden.
After 12 hours, the Turkish delight can be removed from the mold, cut into cubes and rolled in coconut flakes.

As you can see, you can easily prepare Turkish delight with apples at home according to the recipe, and the video tutorial will make this task easier:

Classical

To prepare classic Turkish delight at home you will need:

800 ml. water;
1 kg. Sahara;
150g. starch;
2 g citric acid;
coconut flakes to taste.

Add sugar and starch to heated water until completely dissolved and cook with constant stirring for at least an hour. The resulting mass should be viscous and thick. This is the base - white Turkish delight.
Before it cools, you can add flavoring fillers, or you can leave the classic version - cut the frozen sweetness into shape and roll in coconut flakes or powdered sugar.

It’s not difficult to prepare a classic oriental sweet, but it will take a lot of patience, diligence and time. This is a basic recipe for classic Turkish delight, which can be improved based on your taste preferences. The share of any additive should not be more than a third of the main mass.

A more detailed recipe for Turkish delight in the video below:

Carrot

For carrot Turkish delight you need:

500 g carrots;
200 g starch;
150 g sugar;
150 g walnuts;
half a lemon;
water;
coconut flakes;

Grate the carrots and put them in a saucepan, add sugar and a little water. The mixture should simmer over low heat for at least 10 minutes.
Then add lemon zest and finely chopped nuts.
Starch dissolved in a small amount of water is carefully poured into the boiling mass, after which it is cooked until thickened.
As in classic recipes, the resulting Turkish delight is placed in a mold, cooled and left in the refrigerator for 12 hours until hardened. After this, it can be cut into cubes and rolled in coconut flakes.

The main difficulty in preparing an oriental delicacy is the duration. Taking into account all the stages of preparation and cooling, it takes more than a day.

If you were wondering how to make Turkish delight at home with carrots, then this video instruction is for you:

Storage

Now let's talk how to store Turkish delight:

It is customary to store prepared Turkish delight wrapped in food paper, which will protect it from moisture, in a cool, dry place. Under such conditions, the shelf life of Turkish delight will be at least six months.
You should not replace parchment with film or foil - they do not protect against moisture, so the sweetness will quickly spoil. Contact with air should also be avoided, so Turkish delight packed in paper is stored in a special container.

Already in the 19th century, oriental sweetness received great publicity throughout Europe after the Brussels Exhibition, where it won a gold medal. “Turkish Delight” - this is what the British called Turkish Delight, who particularly enjoyed the delicacy while drinking tea.

Since then, traditional recipes have not changed, and the sweetness is still very popular to this day. And as you have already noticed, in order to try Turkish delight it is not at all necessary to fly to Turkey; it is quite easy to prepare at home if you have certain ingredients. Be patient and you will certainly succeed. But we still recommend going to Turkey, enjoying not only sweets, but also a wonderful beach holiday (,). Perform a unique ( , ), ( , ).

Step-by-step video recipe

Ingredients:

1 cup fruit or berry puree
300 gr. Sahara
200 ml. water for syrup + 150 ml. water for starch
1 cup cornstarch + 2 tbsp. for sprinkling
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1/2 cup powdered sugar

First, prepare the sugar syrup. To do this, pour 200 ml into a ladle or small saucepan. water, add sugar.
Add a spoon of lemon juice.
Stirring, heat, and then boil for 5-10 minutes. In this case, the sugar completely dissolves, and the resulting syrup thickens slightly. The finished syrup for Turkish delight should leave clearly visible streaks on the walls of the saucepan.
While the sugar syrup is boiling, we have time to prepare fruit or berry puree. Any fruit and berries are suitable for puree. Of course, it’s very beautiful when there are multi-colored cubes of Turkish delight in a vase or on a tray, but to achieve this, you will have to tinker and prepare several servings of sweetness, each time using a new fruit base. For red Turkish delight, strawberry or cranberry puree is suitable, for green - from kiwi, for yellow - from apricots, peaches or oranges, for purple - from black currant or chokeberry. Moreover, you can use both fresh and canned fruits.
As a first try, I suggest making Turkish delight from orange. This is my favorite option. The result is an incredibly fragrant sweetness with a slight sourness. Although, what am I explaining to you, my dear readers, you all remember the taste of orange marmalade very well!
To prepare orange puree, peel the orange and divide it into slices. Grind the slices with a blender until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
Pour the orange puree into the syrup standing on the fire.
In the version with orange, there is no need to strain the puree, since the orange is completely ground with a blender knife, but if you are preparing Turkish delight from kiwi or other berries containing small seeds, then I advise you to rub the puree through a coarse sieve to remove seeds or large pieces of skin.
After we put the fruit puree into the syrup, mix the resulting mixture well and boil for a few more minutes.
Dilute starch in 150 ml. water. Mix thoroughly until completely dissolved.
Pour the starch solution into the sugar-orange syrup in a thin stream and continue to cook over low heat.
Without ceasing, stir the mixture with a wooden spatula. The starch-fruit mixture begins to thicken very quickly. Moreover, it thickens not throughout the entire volume, but by forming separate clots. This is fine. We continue to vigorously stir and soon the clots will grow and combine into a thick paste.
You need to be vigilant to ensure that nothing burns; if this happens, reduce the heat.
After 3-5 minutes, the paste will thicken so much that mixing it will become quite difficult. This means that our Turkish delight has been cooked and now after cooling it will harden well and will not become soggy.
At the end of cooking, place the mixture in a flat cooking dish, previously generously sprinkled with starch. The shape can be any: glass, silicone, detachable, etc. The dimensions of the mold should be such that the prepared mixture forms a layer 2.5-3 cm thick on it.
To make the surface of the mixture smooth and without bumps, lightly sprinkle it with starch and then press it down with a spoon. Thanks to starch, the mixture does not stick to the spoon.
Let the form with hot Turkish delight cool at room temperature for 10-12 hours.
After cooling, cover the mold with a cutting board and turn the entire structure upside down. The layer of Turkish delight is very easily separated from the mold and dumped onto the board.
A layer of Turkish delight is cut with a sharp knife into square pieces measuring 2.5-3 cm. Considering that the thickness of the layer was approximately the same, the result is nice, even cubes.
Roll the Turkish delight cubes in cornstarch, shake off the excess, then repeat this operation, but with powdered sugar. You can add more powdered sugar and even sprinkle it generously on our sun cubes, this is an additional protection against sticking.
That's all, the magnificent fruity Turkish delight is ready. You can enjoy the taste and imagine yourself in the exotic east. Yes, one more little thing: it is better to store Turkish delight in a vase with a lid or a closed taper in a cool place, away from sunlight.

Translated from Turkish, Turkish delight means pieces of pleasure or happy pieces. This exquisite sweetness has been around for more than half a century. Previously, only water, sugar, starch and rose petal essence were used to prepare Turkish delight. In the 18th century, Turkish delight was a popular sweet in the Sultan's harem.

A little later, Turkish cooks began to add nuts to Turkish delight. At the end of the 19th century, Turkish delight was first presented at the Brussels Exhibition in Europe. For which Turkish delight received the highest award - a gold medal. The sweetness came to the taste of Europeans. After the exhibition, many contracts were concluded for the supply of Turkish delight to European countries. Currently, Turkish delight is produced in more than 50 countries around the world. It is also very popular in Crimea.

What is Turkish delight?

The form of Turkish delight can be:

cubic (when the sweetness is shaped like a cube)
children's (in the shape of animals)
in the form of a roll
two-layer
rifled
solid
Arabic (when Turkish delight has the shape of a parallelepiped)

Nowadays, every cook has his own unique recipe for making Turkish delight. Very often, when preparing, berry or fruit juice is used instead of sugar, which gives an interesting taste and bright color of sweetness.

Various nuts, dried fruits (figs, prunes, dried apricots), honey, rose petals, cocoa are added to it... There are a great many recipes for Turkish delight, but it is prepared according to the same principle. Try making it yourself at home and pamper your family with this exquisite oriental sweetness!

How to make Turkish delight at home

To prepare we will need:

1 cup cornstarch
1 cup of sugar
half a teaspoon of ground cinnamon - optional (you can omit it if you don’t like cinnamon)
1 teaspoon citric acid (it is better to replace it with lemon juice)
vanilla
50 g instant gelatin
1.5 glasses of water or juice
powdered sugar and sesame seeds for sprinkling

To prepare Turkish delight, we need a saucepan with thick walls or a cauldron (so that the mass does not burn). Pour 1 cup of cornstarch into a saucepan, add all the sugar and a little vanilla. Add cinnamon and gelatin here. Mix everything thoroughly using a wooden spatula.

After this, add 1.5 cups of clean cold water to the mixture and mix everything thoroughly again. If we do not add cinnamon, then you can add rose petal syrup, a little jam, etc. (at your discretion) to the mixture. The saucepan should be placed on low heat. Stirring continuously, bring the mixture until thickened. The mass should thicken during cooking.

After the consistency is similar to that of thick dough, reduce the heat and add a little citric acid. Don't stop stirring the mixture. On average, it takes about 20 minutes to prepare Turkish delight from the moment the mass is heated.

It is very important to learn how to correctly determine the desired consistency of Turkish delight. If you learn how to do this, then you will no longer have problems preparing Turkish delight. You can experiment with this recipe - add milk or coffee instead of water, add nuts and dried fruits to the prepared mixture.

The lokum form is covered with foil or cling film, and only then the heated mass is poured into it. It is advisable that Turkish delight steep for 2 days, but if you are in a hurry, you can use it already on the 2nd day. The form with Turkish delight should be placed in the refrigerator, while covering it with cling film.

When the Turkish delight has brewed, take it out of the mold and cut it into strips and then into cubes. If you plan to store Turkish delight for several days, first dip the cubes in starch (this will prevent it from being too sticky). If you plan to serve immediately, then immediately dip in powdered sugar or sesame seeds. And as the Crimean Tatars say, “ Ash tatly olsun!” - Bon appetit everyone! And we invite all lovers of oriental sweets to Crimea, only here you can enjoy your favorite sweets to your heart's content!

Video recipe for making Turkish delight:

Irina Kamshilina

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Content

This sweet oriental delicacy is popular all over the world: millions of tourists who visit Turkey bring it as a souvenir to their family and friends. Replicating the taste of dessert at home is not as easy as it might seem at first glance, but if you know the correct cooking technique, this task is feasible for any housewife.

What is Turkish delight made from?

There are many different types of Turkish delight, but they all have a similar base. The key ingredients of the dish are starch, sugar/molasses, and water. Turkish delight often includes all kinds of nuts. Previously, the delicacy was prepared only by specially trained masters - kandalatchi - who knew all the secrets of preparing Turkish delight. Today, the dessert recipe is available to any interested person, so you can prepare it yourself.

How to make Turkish delight at home

For those women who love cooking, the opportunity to make an original Turkish delicacy will be a holiday, since there are many variations of preparing Turkish delight: from classic white, to pumpkin, berry, nut, honey. At first glance, the recipe for Turkish delight is simple, since it involves using a minimum of ingredients, but the pastry chef will need to be patient to do everything correctly and get the expected result.

The basis of the dessert is thick, concentrated sugar syrup (molasses) mixed with starch paste. It is preferable to take the latter from corn rather than potato. The syrup for the delicacy is prepared with water, flower decoction or juice, and its quantity is arbitrary: each Turkish delight recipe can provide for a different volume of liquid. Often nuts and pieces of fruit are added to the dessert, and coconut flakes or powdered sugar mixed with starch are used as a topping.

Turkish delight with peanuts - recipe

Cooking time: 1 hour.
Calorie content of the dish: 400 Kcal/100 g.
Purpose: dessert.
Cuisine: oriental.

Sweets, as a rule, fall into the category of junk food, with the exception of Turkish delight with peanuts. Thanks to the natural composition of the product, it does more good than harm. A large number of calories in the dessert are due to glucose - the main source of energy for the human body and a key participant in the metabolic process. Sprinkle the pieces of Turkish delight with powdered sugar or coconut flakes on top.

Ingredients:

starch - ½ tbsp.;
peanuts – 100 g;
sugar – 2 tbsp;
citric acid – 1 tsp;
powdered sugar - ¼ tbsp.;
food coloring and flavoring;
water – 2 tbsp.

Cooking method:

Peanuts should be roasted in a dry frying pan or in the oven at high temperature for 10 minutes.
Fill the pan with 1.5 tbsp. water, dissolve sugar and half of the prepared citric acid in it.
When the syrup boils, reduce the heat to high and continue to simmer the liquid until it acquires the color of caramel and the consistency of thick jelly.
Combine starch, remaining water and citric acid. Place the mixture over low heat and keep on the stove until ready (the mass should be translucent and thick).
Pour in the syrup and stir the mixture until smooth. Boil the resulting mixture for 15 minutes.
Add coloring, peanuts, flavoring. Pour the finished mixture into a lokum form lined with cling film and refrigerate for 8 hours. After hardening, cut the dessert into small pieces. Sprinkle them on each side with sweet powder.

Carrot Turkish Delight

Cooking time: 1 hour.
Number of servings: for 6 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 264 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: dessert.
Cuisine: oriental.
Difficulty of preparation: medium.

The delicacy is prepared from different products (fillings) and for every taste. Below is an original recipe for preparing a dish with which you can make an unusual carrot Turkish delight. Such a sweet made from flour not only has a pleasant, incomparable taste and beautiful appearance, but is also beneficial because it contains a lot of vitamins and other valuable substances. How to make Turkish delight worthy of a Sultan?

Ingredients:

water – 1/3 cup;
coconut flakes – 100 g;
peeled carrots – 0.5 kg;
lemon zest – 30 g;
starch – 180 g;
walnuts – 150 g;
sugar – 150 g.

Cooking method:

Carrots should be grated into fine grains, transferred to a saucepan, and pour 3 tbsp. l. water, add sugar. Turn on low heat, stir occasionally to prevent the vegetable from burning.
Grind the nuts and zest.
After about 15 minutes of boiling, the carrot shavings will change color to a lighter color, then you can add nuts and lemon zest to the saucepan.
Add 3 tbsp to starch. l. chilled water, stir the mixture thoroughly until it reaches the consistency of sour cream.
Mix the resulting mass with the contents of the saucepan. After holding it on the heat for a while, remove the container from the stove.
Take a suitable form. Cover the bottom with parchment, put the mass on top, distributing it evenly throughout the container.
When the mixture has cooled, cover the top of the mold with film, in which it is worth making several punctures with a toothpick to allow air to get inside.
Leave the product in the cold for 8 hours, then cut the frozen piece into small cubes approximately 2x2 centimeters in size. Roll them in coconut flakes.

Pumpkin Turkish Delight

Cooking time: 1 hour.
Number of servings: for 8 people.
Purpose: dessert.
Cuisine: oriental.
Difficulty of preparation: medium.

Healthy Turkish delight made from homemade pumpkin is an ideal delicacy that you can occasionally pamper your children with. Preparing the product is not difficult: the cooking process does not require a lot of free time, and no expensive components are needed. This dessert can be consumed even with pancreatitis or other diseases associated with the digestive system. Below is a recipe with a photo of healthy Turkish delight.

Ingredients:

lemon juice – 30 ml;
sugar – 0.4 kg;
water;
pumpkin – 0.2 kg;
potato starch - 2 tbsp.

Cooking method:

Cut the pumpkin into small slices.
Combine ½ cup of water with sugar, place the container on the fire and cook the syrup until the crystals are completely dissolved.
Add pumpkin pieces to the syrup, continuing to cook the product over moderate heat.
When the vegetable becomes soft, cool the product without removing it from the syrup.
Grind it to a homogeneous puree using a blender.
Add lemon juice to the resulting puree and mix thoroughly.
Place the puree back on the stove. Pour starch diluted with water into a saucepan with boiling mass (dissolve it in 400 ml of liquid, vigorously stirring the contents of the glass).
Continuously stir the ingredients while pouring in the starch, observing how quickly the contents of the bowl thicken.
Stir the mixture with a spatula for a few minutes to prevent lumps from forming, then remove the pan from the heat.
When the puree has cooled, pour it into a plastic container or suitable ceramic mold, which must first be greased with butter.
Place the product in the refrigerator for several hours, and after the dessert has hardened, place it on a flat plate and cut it into small cubes with a sharp knife, each of which should be rolled in sweet powder.

Turkish delight white

Cooking time: 1 hour.
Number of servings: for 6 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 350 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: dessert.
Cuisine: oriental.
Difficulty of preparation: low.

White lokum (as the delicacy is called in Turkey) has a very delicate taste, so even the most picky sweet tooth will like it. Each master prepares the dessert in his own way, adding certain components, however, you can find a simple recipe for white Turkish delight on Turkish forums. At the same time, if you follow all the cooking rules, you will get a delicacy no worse than those sold in Turkey. How to cook a dish at home?

Ingredients:

sugar – 7 tbsp. l.;
whipped cream – 75 ml;
semolina – 7 tbsp. l.;
milk – 3 tbsp;
grated coconut – 100 g;
almonds, other nuts (optional).

Cooking method:

Mix sugar, semolina, and milk in a large bowl. Cook the mixture over low heat until thickened.
Let the mixture cool to room temperature, then pour in the whipped cream.
Refrigerate the dessert base for 40 minutes.
Then, using a spoon soaked in water, give the mixture a suitable shape. Dip each formed piece into coconut shavings, place on a dish, and decorate with nuts.

Turkish delight with pistachios

Cooking time: 1 hour.
Number of servings: for 7 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 327 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: dessert.
Cuisine: oriental.
Difficulty of preparation: medium.

The national Turkish sweet, rahat lokum, is known all over the world. Traditionally, the dessert is served with coffee or tea, but it is equally delicious washed down with freshly squeezed juices or chilled milk. Pistachio delight has an unusual, pleasant taste, so many tourists strive to try the delicacy again. Below is the process of preparing Turkish delight with the addition of starch at home.

Ingredients:

water – 1 tbsp.;
sugar – 3.5 tbsp;
pistachios – 200 g;
citric acid – 20 g;
powdered sugar;
grated coconut;
starch - 1 tbsp.;
cinnamon.

Cooking method:

Mix water with granulated sugar and cook syrup. Add starch here, continuing to cook the mixture until thickened, then pour citric acid into it.
Place the pistachios on a baking sheet and pour the mixture over them. Sprinkle the remaining nuts on top.
When the product has cooled, cut it into small slices, roll first in powdered sugar, then in coconut flakes.

Turkish delight classic

Cooking time: 1 hour.
Calorie content of the dish: 316 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: dessert.
Cuisine: oriental.
Difficulty of preparation: medium.

The finished delicacy looks like elastic pieces sprinkled with powdered sugar. They make such a treat for the palate from various fruit syrups, with all kinds of fillings, which explains the existing variety of types of Turkish delight. The classic recipe involves brewing a delicacy from rose petals. This component gives the dessert a beautiful color and gives it an incomparable delicate taste. You can eat this dish even during pregnancy or diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Below is a homemade recipe for classic Turkish delight.

Ingredients:

starch - 1 tbsp.;
lemon zest – 10 g;
sugar – 1 tbsp;
lemon juice – 1 tbsp. l.;
powdered sugar;
water – 2 tbsp.;
rose water or rose petal jam – 3 tbsp. l.

Cooking method:

To make syrup, heat water and add sugar, lemon juice, and grated zest. When the contents of the pan come to a boil, reduce the heat and stir the mixture constantly until all the sugar has dissolved.
Pour rose water or jam into the resulting syrup, leave the dish on the stove for another 4 minutes, making sure that the syrup does not become too thick.
When the mixture acquires a beautiful caramel tone, dissolve the starch in chilled water, then pour it into the syrup in a thin stream and stir so that there are no lumps left.
Keep the ingredients on low heat until thickened.
Transfer the resulting mixture into a mold and let it cool (this will take about 5 hours).
Cut the Turkish delight into small cubes, each of which should be rolled on all sides in sweet powder.

Strawberry Turkish Delight

Cooking time: 1 hour.
Number of servings: for 3-4 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 164 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: dessert.
Cuisine: oriental.
Difficulty of preparation: medium.

Sweet cubes of Turkish delight are somewhat similar to marmalade; adults and little ones with a sweet tooth eat them with pleasure. Since this dessert is relatively low in calories compared to others, you can indulge in it (in moderation) even while on a diet. A homemade recipe for strawberry Turkish delight involves the use of the main components - sugar and gelatin, but real Turkish chefs add agar-agar to the sweetness, thanks to which the dessert becomes viscous.

Ingredients:

lemon – ½ piece;
gelatin – 15 g;
sweet powder – 150 g;
strawberries – 0.2 kg.

Cooking method:

Grind the berries using a blender until smooth. Add gelatin to the component and leave it to swell in the juice.
Then add powdered sugar and the juice of half a citrus. Stir the mixture and heat over low heat, making sure that all the gelatin is dissolved (do not bring the mixture to a boil).
Remove the container from the heat, cool, and beat its contents with a mixer for 5 minutes.
Pour the resulting mixture into a suitable pan, previously lined with wax paper. Refrigerate the Turkish Delight for 5 hours or longer. Then cut the dessert into squares, sprinkle with sweet powder and serve with tea/coffee.

Turkish delight recipe

Cooking time: 1 hour.
Number of servings: for 5 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 320 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: dessert.
Cuisine: oriental.
Difficulty of preparation: medium.

This oriental sweet can be eaten even by those who are watching their figure. If you use honey instead of sugar, then such a dessert will have even greater benefits for the body. Turkish Turkish delight also contains starch and almonds. You can store it in a tin or ceramic container with a lid. Below is a detailed description of how to prepare the delicacy at home.

Ingredients:

powdered sugar – 50 g;
sugar – 0.5 kg;
vanillin – 5 g;
water – 250 ml;
corn starch – 50 g;
syrup or honey - 2 tbsp. l.;
rose oil – 1 g;
lemon zest – 1 tsp;
nuts – 50 g.

Cooking method:

Pour starch, previously soaked in boiled cold water (100 ml), into hot syrup made from 150 ml and half a kilogram of sugar.
Keep the mixture on the fire for 5 minutes, then turn the burner to low and continue stirring the liquid, watching how it gradually thickens.
Add butter, nuts, vanillin here, without stopping stirring the ingredients.
Pour the resulting mass onto a silicone baking sheet, let it cool for 5 hours, then divide into square pieces.
Sprinkle the dessert first with starch, then with sweet powder. This should be done so that the Turkish delight can be stored longer.

Apple Turkish Delight

Cooking time: 1.5 hours.
Number of servings: for 4 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 300 kcal/100 g
Purpose: dessert.
Cuisine: oriental.
Difficulty of preparation: medium.

Fruit delicacies of Turkish origin often contain dyes and flavors that can cause allergic reactions in children, so it is better to make such desserts at home yourself, using only natural products. Turkish delight made from apples turns out tasty and aromatic, but it is better to use sweet varieties of the fruit. How to prepare the dish?

Ingredients:

sugar – 50 g;
corn starch – 120 g;
walnuts – 50 g;
water;
coconut flakes;
sweet apples – 4 pcs.

Cooking method:

Peel the apples, which are best washed first under warm water to get rid of the wax layer.
Take some water into a saucepan, add sugar, and cook the syrup.
Dip the peeled, chopped apples into it, reducing the heat to low.
To the simmering fruit pieces, add walnuts and starch dissolved in cold water (it should be added to the boiling mixture in a thin stream).
In order for the jam to acquire the desired transparency and homogeneity, stir the mixture constantly. Simmer it for at least an hour over low heat.
Pour the slightly cooled jam into a suitable form, wait for the product to cool, then cut the Turkish delight into small pieces, which should be rolled in coke shavings.

Chocolate Turkish Delight

Cooking time: 2.2 hours.
Number of servings: for 8 persons.
Calorie content of the dish: 170 kcal/100 g.
Purpose: dessert.
Cuisine: oriental.
Difficulty of preparation: medium.

Cooking Turkish delight is not very difficult, but it requires attention, patience, and diligence. Homemade delicacy is an excellent option for treating guests who come in for a cup of tea or coffee. It’s convenient to take Turkish sweets with you on a trip or to work, but it’s worth stocking up on more of them to treat your co-workers to dessert. How to make chocolate Turkish delight?

Ingredients:

lemon;
chocolate – 100 g;
egg whites – 2 pcs.;
powdered milk – 75 g;
sugar – 1 kg;
starch – 125 g;
powdered sugar.

Cooking method:

The whites should be beaten until foamy.
Separately, combine dry milk with 1.5 tbsp. water, sugar, lemon juice and chocolate chips.
Add the whipped whites here.
Place the container over medium heat, wait until the mixture is almost boiling, stir it gently.
Dilute the starch with water (3 tbsp.), pour carefully into the chocolate mixture. Stirring constantly, wait until the products thicken.
Pour the base into the mold, let it harden, then sprinkle the dessert with sweet powder and cut into cubes.

What do you sprinkle on Turkish delight?

It is important not only to follow the technique of preparing a delicious Turkish delicacy, but also to take care of its safety. To prevent the finished starch sweet from losing its presentable appearance, the pieces must be sprinkled with a mixture of starch and powdered sugar. This, in addition, prevents them from sticking and loss of moisture from the dessert. Some chefs decorate the finished delight with grated coconut, chocolate, and multi-colored powder.

Video: Turkish delight with nuts

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