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Steps to Make Super Quick Homemade Turkish Delight

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Jose McDaniel

Turkish Delight
Turkish Delight

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, turkish delight. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook turkish delight using 5 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Turkish Delight:
  1. Take 4 cup sugar
  2. Take 1 cup corn starch
  3. Prepare 1 tbsp lemon juice
  4. Take 1 tbsp rose water
  5. Make ready 1 tsp cream of tartar

Place over medium-high heat, and bring to a boil. If there are sugar crystals on the side of the pan, brush down with a pastry brush dipped in water. The Turkish name for this confection, lokma or lokum, means morsel, and these sweet squares are exactly that: a delicately chewy treat, perfectly sweetened, and infused with the fascinating and sweet flavor of either rosewater, bergamot, lemon, or mastic. Dates, pistachios, hazelnuts, and walnuts are bound in a gel-like concoction that is then perfumed with other flavors and colored by food.

Instructions to make Turkish Delight:
  1. Make sugar syrup. 1 1/2 cups of water, add lemon juice & sugar & bring to a boil.
  2. boil & stir using candy thermometer until it reaches 240°F Fahrenheit
  3. Turn off heat.
  4. In another pot use 2 cups of water & add cream of tartar & corn flour. whisk to get the lumps outs, then beat while bringing it to a boil. Whip it into a gluey paste and turn off heat.
  5. Add sugar syrup slowly a bit at a time to mixture & beat it until all sugar syrup is used.
  6. scrape sides sown with a spatula
  7. bring to a gentle boil (medium heat) while stirring. Once boiling, turn heat down to simmer for one hour. Stir frequently.
  8. Turn off heat & add rose water
  9. line 8 x 8 pan with oil & baking paper. pour in mixture and let cool completely. about 5 hours
  10. sift 1 cup powdered sugar & 1/4 cup of corn starch into a large bowl.
  11. Dust the turkish delight with icing sugar. Turn out onto a surface dusted liberally with icing sugar. remove the baking paper. cut slab of turkish delight into squares using a pizza cutter or lightly oiled knife. Put the squares of turkish delight into bowl of icing sugar & mix well.
  12. store in Tupperware. do not refrigerate.

The Turkish name for this confection, lokma or lokum, means morsel, and these sweet squares are exactly that: a delicately chewy treat, perfectly sweetened, and infused with the fascinating and sweet flavor of either rosewater, bergamot, lemon, or mastic. Dates, pistachios, hazelnuts, and walnuts are bound in a gel-like concoction that is then perfumed with other flavors and colored by food. During his travels to Istanbul, an unknown British traveller became very fond of the Turkish delicacies, purchased cases of "rahat lokoum" and he shipped them to Britain under the name Turkish delight. Keep whisking, until everything combines to make a smooth, gloopy mix. Take out the whisk and start to stir with a spatula or spoon over a medium heat.

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