Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, turkish delight. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Turkish delight or lokum is a family of confections based on a gel of starch and sugar. Premium varieties consist largely of chopped dates, pistachios, hazelnuts or walnuts bound by the gel. Turkish delights secret lies in the arduous process of slowly boiling cornstarch and sugar syrup over low heat for several hours, resulting in dense jelly like sticky morsels.
Turkish delight is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Turkish delight is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have turkish delight using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Turkish delight:
- Prepare 2 cups sugar
- Prepare 2 1/2 cup water
- Make ready 2 tbsp lemon juice
- Prepare 1 cup corn starch
- Make ready 1 tbsp cream of tartar
- Take 1 tsp food colour any colour you can make
- Make ready 1 cup powdered sugar
Lokum or Turkish delight is a sweet treat of Turkish origin, made of starch and sugar, flavored and often garnished with almonds, hazelnuts or pistachios. translation and definition "Turkish delight", English-Russian Dictionary online. The Turkish doctors say Turkish delight (Lokum) has many benefits for human body. They say; instead of consuming heavy desserts after meals, you can consume Turkish delight. Legend has it that the ruler Abdul Hamid I commissioned a confectioner to create a special candy for him during his.
Instructions to make Turkish delight:
- Place the sugar, lemon juice, and 2 cups of the water in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir until the sugar dissolves, and bring the mixture to a boil.Use spatula to wipe down sugar crystals from side and check in between the consistency of sugar getting thick like chasni we make for sweets.To check the sugar ready take a sugar syrup itna spoon and pour into cold water if it comes closer that means sugar is ready keep in side when it is ready.
- Take another nonstick pan and add corn starch and add cream of tartar and add water and start stirring continuously till you get creamy paste lower down the flame when done.
- Take sugar syrup made and start adding slowly in portion and keep on mixing with the cornstarch paste keep on stirring for 45 minutes till the colour starts changing like golden colour.
- Next step add food colour which you like I have used orange colour and mix well,next take any small pan place parchment paper and grease ghee or oil all over and pour the mixture prepared into it and let it set overnight without covering it you can use any net or something to save from any dirt but dont forget do not refrigerate.
- Next day remove the set candy from the pan with the help of parchment paper and place on a flat surface and flip on the other side, next with the help of pizza cutter cut into square shape.
- And take powdered sugar and toss candys gently make sure it gets coated from all sides so it will not stick to each other, while serving garnish with pistachios or serve like this only plain it not only looks Good but taste delicious and enjoy this Turkish delight homemade candy children's will love this.
Turkish Delight is very popular in Australia. I've always loved it but it is definitely a acquired taste. If you can get the rose water try that instead of the citrus flavoring. Turkish delight are small, fragrant cubes of jelly, usually flavoured with rosewater, orange flower water or citrus fruit juice and heavily dusted with icing sugar. Turkish delight (usually uncountable, plural Turkish delights).
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