How lokum is made. What is Turkish Delight made of? Oriental sweets

A traditional oriental delicacy, Turkish Delight has many cooking options. Sweet cubes vary in flavor, color and content. It is not necessary to buy a treat in the store. If there is a suitable recipe for Turkish Delight, it is very easy to cook it at home. How to do it and what products will be needed?

Turkish delight can be made according to the recipe at home

Ingredients

Sugar 2 stack Water 0 stack Starch 0 stack Water 1 tbsp hazelnuts or other nuts 100 grams Starch 1 tbsp Powdered sugar 1 tbsp

• Servings: 1
• Preparation time: 30 minutes
• Time for preparing: 8 minutes

How to cook Turkish Delight

The beauty of Turkish delight is that it is a very budget-friendly delicacy: no butter, no eggs, no milk or sour cream is needed, just a handful of nuts. So what is Turkish delight made of? The basis of the delicacy is a thick concentrated sugar-starch syrup, which can be flavored with nuts, syrup from berries and fruits, jam, coconut flakes.

You will need the following ingredients:

• 2 tbsp. Sahara;
• ½ st. water for sugar syrup;
• ½ st. any starch (rice, corn, potato) for syrup;
• 1.5 st. water for starch base;
• 1 st. a spoonful of fresh lemon juice(it can be replaced with 1 tsp. citric acid);
• 100 g hazelnuts or other nuts;
• food coloring;
• any flavor to your taste;
• 3 art. l. a mixture of starch and powdered sugar, taken in equal proportions for sprinkling.

How to cook Turkish Delight? First, roast the nuts for 10 minutes. in an oven preheated to 200°C. Free the cooled hazelnuts from the husk.

Pour sugar into the pan, pour in water, add half the lemon juice or acid. After boiling, cook over low heat. When a drop of syrup solidifies in cold water, the caramel is ready.

Pour starch with water, add the rest of lemon juice or acid and cook over low heat until thickened. Then mix both mixtures thoroughly and boil over low heat for 20 minutes.

Cover the form in which Turkish delight will harden cling film or baking paper. Then pour in a hot viscous mass, smooth with a spatula and leave to cool completely for 6-8 hours.

It remains only to take out the frozen Turkish delight, cut it into cubes 2-3 cm in size, sprinkle thickly on all sides with a mixture of powdered sugar and starch and arrange it beautifully on a plate. The delicacy is stored in an airtight container for no more than 2 weeks.

The benefits and harms of Turkish Delight

Oriental delicacy gives great joy. sweet taste uplifting, especially for vegetarians and people suffering from atherosclerosis and heart disease. Turkish delight does not contain a drop of fat (when cooked without nuts) or animal products, which allows it to be consumed during fasting.

However, there can also be a lot of harm from delicacies, mainly due to the huge amount of sugar:

• it destroys tooth enamel;
• poses a real threat to the development of diabetes;
• disrupts the work of the pancreas;
• can provoke disturbances in the endocrine system.

The combination of sugar and starch in large quantities leads to obesity, so the benefits and harms of Turkish delight should be compared primarily to those who are prone to gaining excess weight.

Making Turkish Delight at home is very easy. In just an hour, you can make a sweet mass, which, after cooling, will turn into a luxurious oriental delicacy.

Thanks to its original taste and unusual appearance Turkish Delight is known all over the world and is calling card Turkey. Traditionally, this oriental sweet is usually served with tea or coffee, but those with a sweet tooth use it as an independent product. The taste of the dessert is so unusual that, having tasted it for the first time, tourists are wondering: "What is Turkish delight made of?"

History of appearance

This sweet was first prepared in the second half of the 18th century. Rahat-lokum is translated from Turkish as "a convenient piece." The appearance of Turkish delight is associated with a legend about the rivalry between two chefs of the Turkish Sultan. Each of them wanted to stun the ruler with their dish and get a dominant place in the palace kitchen. One of the rivals - by the name of Ali Mahiddin - invented the unprecedented sweetness "Turkish Delight". Its composition was as follows: sugar syrup, starch, aromatics, nuts and dried fruits. The dessert simply melted in your mouth and had an unusual, unlike anything taste. The Sultan was delighted and showered Ali Mahiddin with favors.

During the Ottoman Empire, the taste of Turkish Delight could please only government officials. Families of commoners did not have the opportunity to try this wonderful dessert.

What is Turkish Delight made of?

For the production of this dessert, sugar and starch are used. To give this sweetness a unique taste, aroma and color, honey, nuts, dried fruits are added to its composition. Ready Turkish delight looks like small elastic cubes, the surface of which is completely covered with the finest powdered sugar. There are many various fillings and fruit syrups that make up this sweetness and determine the diversity of its types.

But the classic Turkish Delight is prepared using water from rose petals. It is this component that gives the dessert a delicate color and that original taste thanks to which this sweet has gained worldwide popularity. Tourists are sure to bring an unusual Turkish delight from Turkey as a gift for their relatives and friends.

The benefits / harms of oriental sweets

The healing properties of this dessert directly depend on its constituent components.

Real Turkish delight contains glucose, which strengthens the body as a whole, has a positive effect on the functioning of the heart and brain, and improves hair condition.

A substance formed when glucose and starch combine, strengthens the immune system and helps the body resist viruses and colds.

nuts various kinds relieve hypertension, obesity, insomnia, high cholesterol, have a beneficial effect on the sexual function of both men and women.

It becomes obvious that, in addition to the extraordinary taste, there is another distinguishing feature of Turkish Delight - benefits.

The harm of this dessert lies in the presence a large number carbohydrates that are easily digestible. If you use them often and in large quantities, it can lead to obesity. Turkish delight should be avoided by people who have diabetes. Those who lead an inactive lifestyle should also limit their consumption of oriental sweets.

The basics of making DIY Turkish delight

The production of this dessert does not require rare and exquisite ingredients or special technologies. This sweet is quite easy to prepare at home. What Turkish delight is made of and how to cook it with your own hands is described below:

Turkish delight with vanilla

Boil syrup from 1 kilogram of sugar and 300 milliliters of water, pour a mixture of 100 grams of starch and 200 milliliters of water into it, stirring constantly, and keep on fire until it thickens. Next, add 4 tablespoons of fruit puree, 1 drop of rose oil, 2 teaspoons of lemon peel, 1 pinch of saffron and 100 grams of nuts. Cook until semi-solid, then spread the prepared mixture on a baking sheet. The height of the layer should reach 2.5 cm.

Refrigerate Turkish delight for four hours, cut into cubes and roll in powdered sugar with vanilla.

Turkish delight with pistachios

Prepare syrup from 3.5 cups of sugar and 1 cup of water. Add 1 cup cornstarch and cook until thickened. At the end of cooking, add a little citric acid. Pour 200 grams of pistachios on a baking sheet, pour them with the resulting mass, and lay the same layer of pistachio nuts on top. Cool, then cut into oblong pieces.

This oriental sweet is striking in its variety of species. What is Turkish Delight made of? Depending on the filling used, it comes with nuts and candied fruits. Powdered sugar, coconut flakes, cinnamon, poppy seeds or chocolate can be used as a powder. Depending on the shape, these can be cubes or rolls. Today, Turkish delight is loved not only in Turkey, but also in other countries of the world.

Once upon a time, my ex-mother-in-law became generous and shared with me culinary secret. It was a classic Turkish Delight recipe. And no one cooked this dessert better than her.

Having carefully written down the recommendations, I, like a real young housewife, hid the notebook “under the cloth” and forgot about it tightly. Not so long ago, I accidentally discovered old records and decided to still try to cook homemade treat. Having received a positive result, I decided to improve the recipe and I invite you to evaluate what I did. So, two recipes for the production of homemade sweets.

How to choose the right ingredients

• For Turkish delight, it is preferable to take corn rather than potato starch.
• Lemon juice can be replaced with diluted citric acid.
• If vanilla essence (vanillin extract) is not available, a small packet of vanilla sugar is a great substitute. It can also be vanillin added to the dish at the tip of a knife, but only at the very end of cooking.
• You can take any nuts for treats - walnuts, hazel or peanuts (roasted), almonds. Or cook without nuts at all.

Recipe for Berry Turkish Delight with Nuts

Crockery and equipment: a saucepan, a ladle, a measuring cup, a tablespoon and a teaspoon, a whisk, a spatula, several flat plates, a mold, cling film, a cutting board.

How to make Turkish delight with nuts and berry flavor step by step

I offer a recipe for Turkish (very sweet and immensely tasty) Turkish Delight adapted for domestic cuisine. Translated from Turkish, the name of this confectionery means "sweet throat". My grandchildren immediately called the oriental delicacy magical food.

Cooking syrup

Making the basis of Turkish delight

Checking the readiness of the syrup

In a bowl of ice water (about one and a half glasses), put a drop of boiling syrup. This is a soft ball test. When a drop of syrup under your hands rolls into a ball in water, the ingredient for Turkish delight is ready.

In the presence of a special thermometer, the test is not carried out.

Important! The syrup enters a state of caramelization at a temperature of 130°C.

We make a treat

1. Stir the slightly cooled starch mass with a whisk.
   
   
2. Pour boiling syrup in a thin stream, whisking the ingredients thoroughly. As a result of mixing, a mass should form that resembles a very thick jelly.
   
   
3. Boil the resulting mass over low heat for 25-35 minutes with continuous stirring until the consistency of a thick paste.
   
   
4. Remove the pan from the heat, add 1 drop of vanilla essence, add 100 g of any nuts, previously roasted, and mix.
   
   
5. Line the bottom of a flat dish with cling film, slightly greased. vegetable oil, and pour out the contents of the pot while it is still hot. Smooth the surface of the hot mass and allow to cool completely, approximately 5-6 hours, it is advisable to leave it overnight.
   
   

Cutting candy pads

video recipe

The technology of the process of preparing an oriental delicacy is clearly demonstrated in the plot, which I suggest you watch. It's not hard to make your family happy delicious sweets in an oriental way.

Orange flavored Turkish delight recipe

Active cooking time– 20-25 min.
Total production time– 4-6 hours.
Exit– 830
Energy intensity- 199.6 kcal / 100 g.
Kitchenware: saucepan - 2 pcs., frying pan, tablespoon, spatula, knife, whisk, measuring cup, flat shape, cutting board, cling film.

Step-by-step preparation of a treat from oranges and walnuts

Another option for homemade confectionery is Turkish orange Turkish delight, the recipe of which I strongly advise you to cook, especially if friends of your children are going to visit.
At the very beginning of cooking, you need to fry 100 g of chopped walnuts and squeeze juice from 3 oranges.

Cooking syrup

Preparing the starch base

1. In a second saucepan, mix a glass of water with a glass of cornstarch.
   
   
2. Add 300-400 ml of orange juice, zest from one orange to the starch mixture and mix thoroughly.
   
   
3. Place the starch mass on the burner and bring to a boil with constant stirring. After boiling, remove the heat to below medium and boil until a very thick mass.
   
   
4. Without removing the pan with a thick starch mass from the heat, pour in the sugar syrup in portions, constantly stirring the contents of the pan.
   
   
5. In the mass obtained from mixing, add the fried walnuts and again boil over low heat until very thick.
   
   
6. Put the still boiling mass into a mold covered with cling film, level the surface and set aside to cool.
   
   

We form Turkish delight

video recipe

Watch the video I suggested, which demonstrates the technology for making orange delight.

What is the dish served with - serving and decoration

Oriental delicacies are served at the tea table. Lokum is considered an excellent alternative to sweets, especially since the dessert is made by hand.

• Cornstarch has a neutral taste. Its in confectionery absolutely not felt, unlike potato starch.
• As a sprinkle, you can use the traditional mixture of powdered sugar with starch. And you can sprinkle with ready-made coconut flakes. At the same time, colored squares of Turkish delight look appetizing in candy vases.

Healthy Recipes

• Sweets are loved not only by children, but also by adults. The purpose of the hostess is to create a holiday for the family. Therefore, try to cook churchkhela according to our recipe at home, and the festive mood will be absolutely guaranteed.
• I offer the simplest - marshmallow recipe - from all kinds of fruits. This dessert does not require much time or physical labor. Everything is easy and simple.
• How is apple marshmallow made? You will find the answer to this question on our culinary portal.
• You can always have on the table delicious drink thanks to our "Sorbet Recipe" which is easy to make at home.

AT Did you like my recipes? Do you know how easy it is to make oriental sweets, and do you have your own secrets for making them? Share your experiences and post them in the comments section. Let's work together to develop the perfect recipe for sweet dishes. And happy drinking to all.

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Today I want to bring to your attention two wonderful recipes Turkish Delight. Turkish delight prepared according to these recipes not inferior in its palatability shop Plus, it'll be a lot cheaper. Many will not have to explain what kind of delicacy it is, but for those who have never heard of it, it is enough to know only the translation of the name this dish. "Rakhat" - comfort, pleasure, happiness. "Lukum" - pieces. So let's figure out how to cook these very real pieces of pleasure and happiness!

Kitchen appliances: stove, saucepan, metal bowl, thermometer, mixer, cling film.

Ingredients

Let's start cooking

1. So, first of all, in a bowl where we will prepare the syrup, mix half a teaspoon of citric acid, as well as four cups of sugar. After that, fill the contents of the bowl with one glass of water.
2. In a deeper vessel, such as a saucepan, pour one glass of starch and also fill it with water, about three glasses will be quite enough.
   
   

   It is also worth considering that for Turkish delight it is more preferable to choose corn starch, but if for some reason you only have potato starch, then feel free to use it. The only thing that this ingredient change will affect is that the finished sweetness may not be as hard as you would like.

3. We put a pan with starch and a bowl of sugar on the stove. First, turn on the fire under the bowl of sugar. Gradually, the contents of the bowl will melt, first turning into a thick mixture, and then into a boiling liquid. At this stage, the temperature should be monitored very carefully. The syrup should be boiled at 130°C, so use a kitchen thermometer and adjust the heat as needed.
   
4. When the temperature of the syrup reaches about 120-125 degrees, turn on the fire under the pan with starch. Cook it until it thickens, stirring occasionally with a tablespoon. Try to calculate the time so that the starch and syrup are cooked almost simultaneously.
   
5. So, the syrup boiled for several minutes at 130 degrees, and the starch in the pan turned into a thick mixture. So it's time to move on to the most important stage of preparation! Pour the finished syrup into the pan and mix it thoroughly with starch. The procedure is far from easy, one tablespoon, and even more so with a whisk, cannot be handled. For this situation, the mixer is simply irreplaceable. Mix the contents of the saucepan until a homogeneous thick mass.
   
6. We boil our Turkish delight for about 40 minutes until it becomes even thicker and more viscous. Also, do not forget to periodically connect the mixer to the process and mix the contents of the pan so that nothing burns. If you are using potato starch, then I recommend boiling Turkish delight for about an hour so that it turns out to be more solid.
   
7. About 5-10 minutes before the end of cooking, add literally a couple of grams of vanillin to the pan. In advance, we will prepare a container in which Turkish delight will solidify. It can be a deep plate or a small bowl. Its inner surface should be slightly greased with vegetable oil, and then covered with cling film.
8. We remove the pan with the almost ready Turkish delight from the heat and pour its contents into a previously prepared container.
   
9. Leave the Turkish delight to harden for about 10 hours. It is most reasonable to cook it in the evening, and leave it to harden all night.
10. We will use the most classic powder for freshly prepared sweets. To do this, we need two tablespoons of powdered sugar and exactly the same amount of starch. Roughly speaking, you need to mix these two ingredients to prepare the powder one to one.
    
11. Well, the powder is ready, and the delight has stood long enough to harden. Sprinkle the table with a mixture of powdered sugar and starch, and spread the frozen delight on top of it. We remove the cling film from it, after which we cut it into cubes of the size you need, which we also do not forget to roll in the powder.
    

This video will also help you prepare this most popular oriental sweet all over the world. Check it out to once again make sure that there is nothing complicated in cooking Turkish delight. You just need to stock up on free time and patience.

Time needed to cook Turkish Delight: hour of cooking, 10-15 hours for solidification.
Servings: one or two large bowls.
Kitchen appliances: metal bowl, stove, thermometer, saucepan, mixer, cling film.

Ingredients

Let's start cooking

1. First, I suggest preparing sugar syrup. In a metal bowl, mix sugar and water one by one. In our case, these are three glasses of sugar and exactly the same amount of water.
   
2. We send the bowl to the stove and cook its contents to a boil. Also, do not forget to add literally half a teaspoon of citric acid to the liquid.
   
3. After boiling, cook the syrup for another 10-12 minutes, until it begins to thicken a little. I recommend using a kitchen thermometer, it will help you control the temperature in the bowl and prevent the liquid from caramelizing. To do this, try to keep the temperature around 130 degrees.
   
4. While the syrup is cooking, you can prepare the orange juice. We need 300 ml of freshly squeezed juice, for this we need 3-4 oranges. For convenience, we cut them in half and squeeze the juice out of them into a container convenient for you. If you have the opportunity and desire, then you can use a juicer. The resulting liquid can be strained to get rid of the pulp, but this is not necessary.
   
5. Pour a glass of water and the same amount of cornstarch into the pan. Slightly mix the starch in water.
   
6. Pour into the same pot Orange juice. For a more pronounced orange scent in ready dish You can add some crushed orange zest.
   
7. Turn on the fire and cook the starch for a few minutes until it begins to thicken. As soon as this begins to happen, the fire should be reduced to the very minimum.
   
8. We begin to add syrup to the pan. It is desirable to do so in small portions, after adding each, mix the contents of the pan thoroughly.
   
9. Constantly stir the mixture in a saucepan with a mixer and cook it over low heat until it thickens completely. You need to stir the mixture very often, almost constantly, as there is a risk that it may burn or simply stick to the bottom.
   
10. Turn off the heat and continue to mix the almost ready Turkish delight. Pour about a hundred grams of walnuts into the thickened mixture, which we immediately mix in a thick mixture.
    
11. It's time to pour the finished Turkish delight into a convenient container, where it will solidify, but first of all, this container needs to be prepared. Its bottom must be covered with cling film in advance.
    
12. Pour the mixture from the pan into the prepared container, helping a little with a tablespoon.
    
13. The hardest part is behind us, the little things are left to do. In this container, it is necessary to leave our yummy to solidify for 10-15 hours. In principle, you will already understand when the Turkish delight completely hardens, but it is worth noting that a lot depends on the depth of the dish where the mixture will solidify. The deeper it is and the smaller its total area, the longer it will take for this process.
    
14. I suggest taking the powder for Turkish delight all the same classic. This is the usual mixture of starch and powdered sugar one to one (in our case, two tablespoons of both will be enough).
    
15. Spread the completely frozen Turkish delight on the prepared powder and roll it in it from all sides.
    
16. We cut it into cubes of the size you need, which we also roll in powder.
    

The video below will help you learn in detail the method of making Turkish Delight. Be sure to read it to understand for yourself all the subtleties of this recipe.

On this I say goodbye to you! Remember, there is nothing in cooking that you cannot cook at home. Experiment and cook exclusively with love for the process, and then the end result can not only please you, but lead you to a real delight! Also don't forget to share your experience with others in the comments below.

From exotic trips, travelers often bring an edible souvenir - Turkish delight. Elastic cubes of this oriental sweet are thickly stuffed with nuts (usually hazelnuts) and rolled in sweet white sprinkles.

Such peculiar sweets, very similar to the original, can be prepared at home. Added to real Turkish Delight cream of tartar helping to harden the starch mixture. But in our conditions, this ingredient can be abandoned due to the impossibility of getting it, and the oriental sweetness will turn out to be a little softer. However homemade Turkish delight with nuts is no worse than an overseas delicacy.

We offer you several available recipes Turkish delight at home.

TIME: 3 hours

Difficult

Servings: 5

Ingredients

• For syrup:
• sugar - 400 g;
• water - 100 ml;
• citric acid - 0.5 tsp
• For starch jelly:
• starch - 100 g;
• water - 300 ml;
• vanilla - sachet.
• For filler and toppings:
• hazelnuts - 70 g;
• powdered sugar - 1.5 tbsp;
• starch - 2 tbsp.

Cooking

As you can see, what Turkish delight is made of is very easy to find on the shelves of any stores. The delicacy is prepared in about one hour.

Let's prepare the filler. Warm the nuts well in a pan so that a thin skin separates from them. Peel the hazelnuts.

Let's make syrup. In a saucepan, combine all the ingredients for the syrup, and then send the container to the stove.

After about a quarter of an hour, the syrup will begin to thicken and will not quickly drain from the spatula.

If you can roll a ball from a drop of syrup, previously immersed in water, it is ready.

In another saucepan, make jelly from starch, combine starch and water.

Put a saucepan with starch water on the fire. The mixture will begin to thicken, so it must be constantly stirred. Remove the resulting thick mass from the heat even before the syrup is ready.

When the syrup is ready, return the jelly to the fire and warm it up a little. Working intensively with a whisk, pour one third of the syrup into the starch mass.

Move the rest of the syrup in the same way. It should be added in parts so that the two components of the delicacy are well connected to each other.

Then replace the whisk with a mixer and cook without stopping beating for 40-60 minutes. Not every mixer will be able to withstand continuous operation for such a time, so it is better to turn it off for a few minutes and beat this period with a hand whisk.

The mass will thicken greatly, and the longer it is cooked, the more dense its structure is formed.

Remove the mass from the heat and add the hazelnuts.

Cover a container of suitable size with cling film. Pour into it a slightly cooled, but still quite hot and viscous mixture with nuts. Wait for it to completely solidify in the refrigerator (about 2 hours).

mix powdered sugar with starch. Pour the resulting dry mixture onto the work surface. Frozen Turkish delight, place in flour from powder and starch. Remove the film.

Roll the entire transparent nut bar in the sprinkles.

Cut the workpiece into cubes.

Covered on all sides with sweet starch, put the cubes of Turkish delight in a vase.

That's all! Turkish delight at home is completely ready! Brew fragrant tea and invite your loved ones to enjoy the oriental delicacy of your own production.

Strawberry Turkish Delight

The composition of this delicacy includes components completely different from classic recipe dessert. This oriental sweet is also distinguished by its taste. Through the use fresh berries strawberries, red wine, and cornstarch, finished Turkish Delight has a completely different look. But the recipes have one thing in common - the delicacies made with their help are very original, tasty and appetizing.

Ingredients:

• corn starch - 90 g + for deboning;
• fresh, ripe strawberries - 100 g;
• nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts or almonds) - 30 g;
• sugar - 125 g;
• dry red wine - 30 ml;
• water - 250 ml;
• powdered sugar - for boning.

Cooking

1. Free the berries from the tails and rinse well. Puree strawberries with a blender.
2. Combine one third of the resulting puree with half the water and sugar in a small saucepan. Bring the mass to a boil, then cook for another 7 minutes. Remove the saucepan from the stove.
3. Mix the remaining puree with cornstarch and the second part of the water. Stir until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
4. In a thin stream, add the starch mixture to the hot strawberry mass. All this time, vigorously stir the contents of the saucepan with a whisk.
5. Pour in the dry red wine and then return the saucepan to the heat. Simmer for about 20 minutes until the strawberry mass thickens.
6. Remove the saucepan from the heat and add chopped and toasted nuts to it. Mix thoroughly.
7. Put the future Turkish delight in a mold covered with foil. Level the mass with a spoon, giving it a neat look.
8. Leave the dessert for 4 hours at room temperature then place in the refrigerator for the same amount of time.
9. Combine powdered sugar with starch. Remove the frozen dessert from the mold and place in the dry mixture. Roll the Turkish Delight in the powder and starch on all sides. Cut the delicacy into cubes and serve.

Vanilla Turkish Delight with Almonds

The name itself suggests that this delicacy is distinguished by its special tenderness and exquisite taste. The method of preparing vanilla Turkish delight is slightly different from previous recipes. A little time and patience, and delicious oriental sweetness will decorate your sweet table.

Ingredients:

• drinking water - 2 tbsp.;
• cherry juice - 2 tbsp.;
• peeled almonds - 100 g;
• vanillin - 1 tsp;
• granulated sugar- 2 tbsp.;
• potato starch - 2 tbsp.;
• powdered sugar - for dusting.

Cooking

1. Divide the almonds into halves.
2. Place starch in a bowl, add cool drinking water(1 cup) and mix thoroughly. It is necessary to achieve complete dissolution of all lumps. Leave the starch mixture aside for a while, let it rest.
3. Pour sugar into a small saucepan. Pour in the remaining water and juice and send the container to the fire. Periodically removing the foam gathering on the surface, bring the mass to a boil.
4. Gently, in a thin stream, enter the starch mixture into the boiled syrup. All this time, the mass must be intensively stirred with a whisk.
5. Add the almond halves and vanilla to the resulting mixture. Cook, stirring, over low heat until the mass thickens.
6. To make the dessert more appetizing, you can tint it. This will help you food and natural dyes. The latter include the juice of cherries, beets, carrots, etc. If you are preparing a delicacy for yourself, then leave the color as it is - so Turkish delight will be tastier and less harmful.
7. Place the hot vanilla-almond mass in a mold covered with cling film. Cool at room temperature, then place in the refrigerator for 5-6 hours.
8. Remove the dessert from the mold and roll in a mixture of powdered sugar and starch. Cut the Turkish Delight into squares and place them in a strainer. Gently shake it several times so that the extra "breading" flies off the pieces of oriental sweetness.

Dessert can be served immediately after the cooking process is completed.

Turkish delight with gelatin coconut flakes

There is another win-win option for preparing the famous oriental sweets. If you are afraid that your dessert will not harden for some reason, use the gelatin treat recipe. This product will speed up the curing process and allow you to enjoy Turkish Delight faster than usual. Another difference is that this method of preparation involves rolling the dessert not in a mixture of powdered sugar and starch, but in coconut flakes.

Ingredients:

• large orange - 1 pc.;
• small lemon - 1 pc.;
• corn starch - 110 g;
• purified water - 300 ml;
• instant gelatin - 15 g;
• powdered sugar - 3 tbsp.;
• hazelnuts - 100 g;
• food coloring;
• coconut flakes - 100 g.

Cooking

1. First of all, you need to wash the citrus fruits, and then remove the peel from them. This will leave you with the zest, which should be set aside for the time being. Try to remove the peel without a white layer - it will give the dessert unnecessary bitterness.
2. Squeeze out all the juice from the pulp of the lemon and orange.
3. Hazelnuts (other nuts can be used) fry in a pan, and then peel.
4. Pour the resulting citrus juice into a saucepan with a thick bottom. Add 100 ml of water, powdered sugar and zest there. Send the saucepan to medium heat and, stirring occasionally, wait for the sweet crystals to dissolve completely. If the sugar caramelizes on the sides of the dish, brush it down with a damp pastry brush.
5. Bring the mass to a boil. Reduce heat and continue cooking, without stirring, for another 5 minutes. Scoop a little of the mixture with a tablespoon, and then immediately lower the appliance into cold water. If the mass flows down in long thin threads, it can be removed from the stove.
6. Dilute starch in 100 ml of water. Dissolve the gelatin completely in the remaining liquid. To do this, it is enough to draw water into a glass, add a gelling component to it, and then place the container in a bowl of boiling water.
7. Add both mixtures to the sugar syrup, after removing the citrus peels from it. Mix well and place the saucepan over moderate heat. Add coloring (optional) and nuts. Cook until the mass becomes thick.
8. Pour the mixture into a mold lined with cling film. Cool and then refrigerate for 5-6 hours.
9. Remove the frozen dessert from the mold, roll in coconut flakes and cut into portions. Enjoy your meal!