Turkish delight recipes. How and from what to cook homemade Turkish delight

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 cooking 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 lubricated vegetable oil then cover 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 Turkish 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 into the thickened mixture. walnuts, which are immediately mixed 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.

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

What is Turkish delight made from?

There is a mass different types Turkish delight, however, they all have a similar basis. The key components of the dish are starch, sugar / molasses, 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 making Turkish delight. Today, the dessert recipe is available to any interested person, so you can cook it yourself.

How to cook Turkish delight at home

For those women who love cooking, the opportunity to make a traditional Turkish delicacy will be a holiday, as there are many variations of cooking Turkish delight: from classic white to pumpkin, berry, walnut, honey. At first glance, the recipe for Turkish Delight is simple, since it involves the use of a minimum of components, but the pastry chef will need to be patient in order to do everything right and get the expected result.

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

Turkish delight with peanuts - recipe

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

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

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:

1. Peanuts should be roasted in a dry frying pan or oven at high temperature for 10 minutes.
2. Fill the pot with 1.5 tbsp. water, dissolve sugar and half of the prepared citric acid in it.
3. When the syrup boils, reduce the heat to high and continue to reduce the liquid until it has a caramel color and consistency. thick jelly.
4. Combine the starch, the rest of the water and citric acid. Place the mixture on low heat and keep on the stove until cooked (the mass should turn out to be translucent, thick).
5. Pour the syrup here, mix the mixture until smooth. Boil the resulting mass for 15 minutes.
6. Add dye, peanuts, flavoring. Pour the prepared mass into the covered cling film mold for Turkish delight and refrigerate for 8 hours. After cooling, cut the dessert into small pieces. Sprinkle them on each side with sweet powder.

Turkish delight from carrots

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

The delicacy is prepared from different products (fillers) and for every taste. Described below original recipe cooking a dish with which you can make an unusual carrot Turkish delight. Such sweetness from flour has not only a pleasant, incomparable taste and beautiful view, but also differs in benefits, since it includes a lot of vitamins and other valuable substances. How to make lokum worthy of a sultan?

Ingredients:

• water - 1/3 st.;
• coconut flakes - 100 g;
• peeled carrots - 0.5 kg;
• lemon peel- 30 g;
• starch - 180 g;
• walnuts - 150 g;
• sugar - 150 g.

Cooking method:

1. Carrots should be grated on a fine grain, put in a saucepan, pour 3 tbsp. l. water, add sugar. Turn on low heat, stir occasionally so that the vegetable does not burn.
2. Grind nuts, zest.
3. After about 15 minutes of boiling, the carrot shavings will change color to a lighter one, then you can add nuts and lemon zest to the saucepan.
4. Add 3 tbsp to starch. l. chilled water, stir the mixture well until it acquires the consistency of sour cream.
5. Mix the resulting mass with the contents of the saucepan. After a little holding on fire, remove the container from the stove.
6. Take the right form. Cover the bottom with parchment, put the mass on top, evenly distributing it over the container.
7. When the mixture has cooled, cover the top of the mold with cling film, which should be pricked a few times with a toothpick to allow air to enter.
8. Leave the product in the cold for 8 hours, then cut the frozen piece into small cubes about 2x2 centimeters in size. Roll them in coconut flakes.

Turkish delight from pumpkin

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

Healthy pumpkin Turkish delight home production – perfect option treats that can sometimes be pampered by children. Preparing the product is not difficult: the cooking process does not require a large number free time, without the need for expensive components. Such a dessert can be consumed even with pancreatitis or other diseases associated with 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:

1. Cut pumpkin into small slices.
2. Combine ½ cup of water with sugar, put the container on the fire and boil the syrup until the crystals are completely dissolved.
3. Add pumpkin pieces to the syrup, continuing to cook the product over moderate heat.
4. When the vegetable becomes soft, without removing it from the syrup, cool the product.
5. Grind it to a smooth puree with a blender.
6. To the resulting puree, add lemon juice, mix thoroughly.
7. Put the puree back on the stove. Pour starch diluted with water into a saucepan with a boiling mass (dissolve it in 400 ml of liquid, stirring the contents of the glass vigorously).
8. Stir the ingredients continuously while pouring in the starch, watching how quickly the contents of the dish thicken.
9. Stir the mixture with a spatula for a few minutes to prevent lumps from forming, then remove the pan from the heat.
10. When the puree has cooled, pour it into a plastic container or a suitable ceramic dish, which must first be greased with butter.
11. Send the product to the refrigerator for several hours, and after the dessert has hardened, put it on a flat plate and cut it with a sharp knife into small cubes, each of which should be rolled in sweet powder.

Turkish delight white

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

White lokum (the so-called delicacy in Turkey) has a very delicate taste, so even the most fastidious sweet tooth will like it. Each master prepares a dessert in his own way, adding certain components, however, to find simple recipe white Turkish delight can be found on Turkish forums. At the same time, if you follow all the rules of cooking, 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:

1. Mix sugar, semolina, milk in a bulk bowl. Cook the mixture over low heat until thickened.
2. Let the mass cool to room temperature, then pour in the whipped cream here.
3. Refrigerate the dessert base for 40 minutes.
4. Then, using a spoon dipped in water, give the mixture a suitable shape. Dip each formed piece into coconut flakes, put on a dish, decorate with nuts.

Turkish delight with pistachios

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

National Turkish sweet - rahat lokum - is known all over the world. Traditionally, dessert is served with coffee or tea, but it is no less tasty to drink it with freshly squeezed juices or chilled milk. Pistachio delight has an unusual, pleasant taste, so many tourists tend to taste the delicacy again. Below is the process of making 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:

1. Mixing water with granulated sugar, boil the syrup. Add starch here, continuing to cook the mixture until it thickens, then pour citric acid into it.
2. Put pistachios on a baking sheet, fill them with the resulting mass. Sprinkle the remaining nuts on top.
3. 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: Eastern.
• Difficulty of preparation: medium.

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

Ingredients:

• starch - 1 tbsp.;
• lemon peel - 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:

1. To make syrup, heat water and add sugar, lemon juice, and grated zest to it. When the contents of the pan come to a boil, lower the heat and stir constantly until the sugar has dissolved.
2. Pour rose water or jam into the resulting syrup, leave the dishes on the stove for another 4 minutes, making sure that the syrup does not become too thick.
3. When the mixture takes on a beautiful caramel tone, dissolve the starch in chilled water, then pour it in a thin stream into the syrup and mix so that no lumps remain.
4. Keep the ingredients on low heat until thickened.
5. Transfer the resulting mixture to a mold and let it cool for a while (it will take about 5 hours).
6. Turkish delight cut into small cubes, each of which must 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: Eastern.
• Difficulty of preparation: medium.

Sweet cubes of Turkish delight are somewhat similar to marmalade, they are eaten with pleasure by adults and small sweet teeth. Since this dessert is relatively low in calories compared to others, it can be indulged in (in moderation) even while on a diet. homemade recipe strawberry Turkish delight involves the use of the main components - sugar and gelatin, while real Turkish chefs add agar-agar to the sweetness, thanks to which the dessert becomes viscous.

Ingredients:

• lemon - ½ pc.;
• gelatin - 15 g;
• sweet powder - 150 g;
• strawberries - 0.2 kg.

Cooking method:

1. Grind the berries with a blender until smooth. Add gelatin to the component and leave it to swell in the juice.
2. Then add powdered sugar, juice of half a citrus here. Stir the mass and heat over low heat, making sure that all the gelatin dissolves (do not bring the mixture to a boil).
3. Remove the container from the heat, cool, beat its contents with a mixer for 5 minutes.
4. Pour the resulting mass into a suitable form, previously covered with wax paper. Refrigerate 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: Eastern.
• Difficulty of preparation: medium.

Such oriental sweetness can be eaten even by those who follow their figure. If you use honey instead of sugar, then such a dessert will have even greater benefits for the body. Turkish delight, in addition, contains starch and almonds. You can store it in a tin or ceramic dish with a lid. Below is a detailed description of how to prepare a treat 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:

1. In a hot syrup of 150 ml and half a kilogram of sugar, pour in the starch, previously soaked in boiled water. cold water(100 ml).
2. Keep the mixture on fire for 5 minutes, then screw the burner to a minimum and continue to stir the liquid, watching how it gradually thickens.
3. Add butter, nuts, vanillin here, without stopping stirring the components.
4. Pour the resulting mass onto a silicone baking sheet, let it cool for 5 hours, then divide into square pieces.
5. Sprinkle the dessert first with starch, then with sweet powder. You need to do this so that the Turkish delight is 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: Eastern.
• Difficulty of preparation: medium.

Fruit treats 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 on your own, using only natural products. Turkish delight from apples turns out to be tasty and fragrant, while it is better to use sweet varieties of the fruit. How to prepare a dish?

Ingredients:

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

Cooking method:

1. Peel apples, which are best washed under warm water to get rid of the wax layer.
2. Take some water in a saucepan, add sugar here, boil the syrup.
3. Dip the peeled, chopped apples into it, reducing the heat to a minimum.
4. Send walnuts, starch dissolved in cold water to the languishing fruit pieces (you need to add it to the boiling mixture in a thin stream).
5. In order for the jam to acquire the desired transparency and uniformity, stir the mixture constantly. Simmer it for at least an hour on low heat.
6. 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.

Turkish delight chocolate

• Cooking time: 2, 2 hours.
• Number of servings: for 8 people.
• Calorie content of the dish: 170 kcal / 100 g.
• Purpose: dessert.
• Cuisine: Eastern.
• Difficulty of preparation: medium.

Cooking Turkish delight is not a very difficult task, but it requires attention, patience, and diligence. homemade treat is a great option for treating guests who come in for a cup of tea or coffee. It is convenient to take Turkish sweets with you on a trip or to work, but you should stock up on more of them to treat your colleagues with dessert. How to make Chocolate Turkish Delight?

Ingredients:

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

Cooking method:

1. Proteins should be whipped until foamy.
2. Connect Separately powdered milk from 1.5 st. water, sugar, lemon juice and chocolate chips.
3. Enter whipped proteins here.
4. Put the container on medium heat, wait until the mixture is almost boiling, mix it gently.
5. Dilute the starch with water (3 tablespoons), pour gently into the chocolate mass. Constantly stirring, wait for the products to thicken.
6. Pour the base into the mold, let it harden, then sprinkle the dessert with sweet powder, cut into cubes.

What is sprinkled with Turkish Delight

It is important not only to observe the technique of preparing a delicious Turkish delicacy, but also to take care of its safety. So that the finished sweetness from starch does not lose its presentable appearance, the pieces must be sprinkled with a mixture of starch and powdered sugar. This also prevents them from sticking together and the dessert from losing moisture. Some culinary experts decorate ready-made Turkish delight with grated coconut, chocolate, and multi-colored powder.

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Turkish delight - recipes with photos. What is Turkish delight made of and how to cook at home

Turkish delight - delicious and healthy sweetness. There is practically no fat in its composition, which makes the dessert especially attractive for people with gastrointestinal diseases. Sweetness base - boiled down, highly concentrated thick syrup combined with cornstarch paste. In the East, syrup is prepared with water, juices, herbal infusions. The secret of successful dessert preparation is high-quality mixing of the mass, maintaining the cooling period. Follow the step-by-step recommendations prepared by the editors of the site " Quick Recipes”, and prepare a healthy oriental treat for big and small guests.

Turkish delight at home - isn't it a utopia? Not! Lokum, prepared by one's own hands, is a culinary adventure, a pleasure, another height of pastry chef's skill taken!

To prepare Turkish delight, the simplest, most affordable, and most importantly natural products are required. No flavor enhancers, animal fat and palm oil! That is why Turkish Delight belongs to the category of ecological, healthy confectionery. In addition, Turkish delight, made on a purely plant basis, is a real joy for vegetarians or people who observe strict fasting.

Turkish delight: recipe with peanuts

Ingredients:

• Milk 3 cups;
• Butter 1 table. a spoon;
• Flour 150 g;
• Sugar 150 g;
• Peanuts 100 g;
• Coconut chips 40 g;
• Gelatin 1 table. a spoon.

Cooking method:

Pour some of the milk into the pan, sift the flour here and knead the mass well with the help of a whisk. We spread the melted butter, add the rest of the milk and once again knead everything well.

We send to the fire. When the mixture begins to boil, reduce the heat, add sugar and cook for about 5 minutes. A minute before the end of cooking, add pre-soaked gelatin, mix well. Let it cool down a bit room temperature add the peanut halves. Knead and spread in a mold sprinkled with coconut flakes.

We send it to the refrigerator. After 4-5 hours, take out the delicacy and cut into cubes. Turkish delight has a very beautiful and presentable appearance, so you can safely decorate any festive table.

Turkish Turkish delight

Ingredients:

• Water 4 glasses;
• Cornstarch 1 cup;
• Starch 2 teaspoons;
• Powdered sugar 2 teaspoons.

For powder:

• Sugar 1 teaspoon;
• Water 1 glass;
• Citric acid 0.5 teaspoon.

Cooking method:

Prepare the syrup, for which pour sugar into the pan and fill it with water, add citric acid. After boiling, boil the syrup for 15-20 minutes. Pour starch into a saucepan, fill it with water (4 cups). Brew, bringing to a boil.

For powder, combine starch and powdered sugar, mix. Combine the finished syrup and brewed starch. Cook for an hour over low heat, stirring occasionally. Pour the thickened mass into the mold and let it harden. When I cook, the mixture cools down and sets for 50 minutes. Roll the finished Turkish delight well in the powder.

White Turkish Delight

Ingredients:

• Butter 180 g;
• Flour 8 tablespoons;
• Milk 650 ml;
• Sugar 10 tablespoons;
• Vanilla sugar 1 sachet;
• Hazelnut 30 g;
• Walnuts 30 g;
• Pistachios 30 g;
• Coconut flakes 100 g

Cooking method:

Melt the butter, add flour to it and cook, stirring constantly, for 5 minutes. Pour in milk and cook until thickened. Pour regular and vanilla sugar into the mixture. Boil until the sugar is completely dissolved.

Pour the mixture into a wide dish so that it covers the bottom of the dish with a layer of 1 cm. Let cool. Cut the frozen mass into strips, roll up the rolls, wrapping the nuts inside. In principle, the filling can be anything to your taste - various nuts, dried fruits, chocolate, etc. Roll the rolls in coconut flakes.

Homemade Turkish delight

Ingredients:

• water - 0.5 l;
• sugar - 0.4 kg;
• lemon - 2 pcs.;
• corn starch - 100 g;
• gelatin - 25 g;
• powdered sugar - 75 g;
• peeled pistachios or other nuts - 50 g;
• food colorings.

Cooking method:

For cooking, you will need a pan with a thick bottom and molds 5 cm high and 20 cm long to spill the mass. On the preparatory stage nuts are cleaned and crushed. Juice is squeezed out of lemons, seeds are removed. Forms are lightly greased with vegetable oil and lined with cling film.

Mix sugar, lemon juice and 0.3 l of water and bring to a boil. Keep the mixture until the sugar crystals are completely dissolved. Mix 0.2 l of water, 75 g of corn starch, gelatin, add to the syrup.

Cook the mixture until thickened over low heat. Remove the saucepan from the stove, let the mass cool slightly. Add chopped pistachios. Divide the mass into parts and add dyes. Mix powdered sugar and remaining starch.

Sprinkle prepared forms with powder mixed with starch, remove excess mixture. Pour the finished mass into molds. Leave until completely cool. After cooling, the sweetness is removed from the molds, cut into cubes and sprinkled with a mixture of starch and powdered sugar.

Fruity Turkish Delight

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. l. for sprinkling
• 1 st. l. lemon juice
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar

Cooking method:

Pour 200 ml into a ladle or small saucepan. water, add sugar. Add a spoonful of lemon juice. Stirring, heat, and then boil for 5-10 minutes. In this case, the sugar is completely dissolved, and the resulting syrup will slightly thicken. Ready syrup for Turkish Delight should leave clearly visible streaks on the walls of the saucepan.

While the sugar syrup is being cooked, we have time to prepare fruit or berry puree. For puree, any fruit and berries are suitable. For red Turkish delight, strawberry or cranberry puree is suitable, for green - from kiwi, for yellow - from apricots, peaches or oranges, for purple - from blackcurrant or chokeberry. And it can be used as fresh fruits, and canned.

To prepare orange puree, peel an 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.

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. In a thin stream, pour the starch solution into the sugar-orange syrup and continue to cook over low heat.

After 3-5 minutes, the paste will thicken so much that it becomes quite difficult to mix it. This means that our Turkish delight has been cooked and now, after cooling, it will solidify well and will not freeze.

At the end of cooking, the mixture is laid out in a flat culinary form, previously abundantly sprinkled with starch. Let the form with hot Turkish delight cool at room temperature for 10-12 hours.

After cooling, cover the form with a cutting board, and turn the whole structure upside down. A layer of Turkish delight is cut with a sharp knife into square pieces 2.5–3 cm in size. Roll the cubes of Turkish delight in corn starch, shake off the excess, then repeat this operation, but with powdered sugar.

Turkish delight in a hurry

Ingredients:

• Sugar 400 g;
• Water 150 ml;
• Citric acid 2.5 g;
• Corn starch 70 g;
• Water 300 ml;
• Cashew nuts 100 g;

For sprinkling:

• Powdered sugar 3 tsp;
• Corn starch 2 tsp

Cooking method:

Roast nuts in a pan or oven. Mix sugar with water and citric acid. Put on the stove, on a small heat to achieve complete dissolution of sugar. Bring to a boil and cook to 130°C degrees (hard ball test).

Mix starch with water. Whisking constantly, bring to a boil and heat for 2-3 minutes. Pour sugar syrup into it. Stirring continuously, bring to a uniform consistency. After boiling, boil for 20-30 minutes on low heat. When the mass thickens, add nuts and flavoring.

Mix and put in a form covered with cling film. The film can be lubricated with odorless vegetable oil. Put in a cool place for 5-10 hours. Randomly cut and roll in a mixture of starch and powdered sugar.

Tangerine Turkish Delight

Ingredients:

• Tangerines 7 pcs.;
• Water 800 ml;
• Sugar 600 g;
• Powdered sugar 100 g;
• Citric acid 0.25 tsp;
• Vanillin 2 g;
• Starch 130 g

Cooking method:

Melt sugar in water (600 ml) over low heat and add citric acid. Simmer over medium heat for about 10 minutes until thick, but the syrup should remain clear. During this time, prepare the tangerine juice. Grind peeled tangerines in a blender and, using a sieve, wipe the resulting slurry through it. You can use a juicer.

Mix the resulting tangerine juice with 200 ml of water and starch. Put the mixture on the fire and when it boils, pour in the sugar syrup and add the vanillin. Cook Turkish delight for 20-30 minutes until gel-like. Then pour into a convenient form and leave in the refrigerator for an hour.

When the lokum has hardened, take it out of the mold, cut into sticks or cubes and roll them in powdered sugar. The most important thing in cooking Turkish Delight is the sprinkling. It is needed not so much for beauty, but so that the sweetness does not stick to hands and dishes. For this purpose, powdered sugar is usually chosen, but coconut flakes are also suitable.

Pumpkin Turkish delight with seeds

Ingredients:

• Sugar 400 g;
• lemon acid½ tsp;
• Water 2 ½ cups;
• powdered sugar 1 pack;
• starch 2 cups;
• pumpkin 200 st. l.

Cooking method:

Cut pumpkin in half, remove seeds and peel. Cut into small cubes. Now we are preparing the seeds. To do this, clean them from pumpkin fibers, rinse and put on a towel to dry.

When they dry a little, put them on a baking sheet and put in the oven to dry completely, stirring occasionally. I determined that the seeds were ready when they began to "shoot". Also, the seeds can be dried in a pan or in the microwave (stir every 1-2 minutes).

Seeds cool and peel. Pour into a form for Turkish delight, pre-lubricated with oil (any) or covered with cling film. Now we start preparing Turkish delight itself. To do this, mix 1 cup of water with sugar. We put on fire and heat until the sugar is completely dissolved.

Then add to sugar syrup pumpkin and cook until done. When the pumpkin becomes soft, remove it from the heat, let it cool slightly and use a blender to bring the mass to a homogeneous state. We put it on fire again.

In the meantime, dilute the starch in 1.5 cups of water, the starch should completely dissolve. When the pumpkin syrup begins to boil, pour the starch into it in a thin stream, knead thoroughly so that lumps do not form.

Thoroughly knead the mass, cook over low heat until thickened, stirring constantly. Remove from fire. Allow to cool and pour into a pre-prepared form. If the form is not plastic, you can also fill in the hot mass. Put in the refrigerator to chill.

When the Turkish Delight hardens, turn the form over, cut into small squares and roll them in a mixture of powdered sugar and starch. It's just that powdered sugar can be quickly absorbed.

Everything you need to know about Turkish Delight

Nutritionists say that the benefits of Turkish delight are questionable. Judge for yourself: Turkish delight is the sweetness of such concentration, such amazing sweetness that it cannot be useful in any way. Too much sugar is bad. Sugar destroys teeth, knocks down the pancreas from the correct mode, and is contraindicated for diabetics. On the other hand, relaxing oriental sweetness activates the hormones of happiness and joy in the body, which is very desirable for health!

The benefits of Turkish delight are obviously found in supplements such as nuts. The composition of Turkish delight often includes nuts, including almonds - an exceptional product in its composition and important for health. At the same time, Turkish delight is a high-calorie dessert, it is not recommended for people who decide to lose weight.

More about the pros: Turkish delight is one of the few desserts allowed for fasting, as well as those suffering from atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases. Since Turkish delight is a product, firstly, it is vegetarian and, secondly, it contains practically no fat (especially if the recipe is without nuts).

Conclusions? Decide for yourself what outweighs Turkish delight: benefit or harm. Probably, for different people and the conclusions will be different. The main rational approach: there is no need to deprive yourself of high-quality oriental delicacy, but even sweet happiness is good in moderation.

Hello! And again I am expanding my knowledge of desserts and sweets. I swung at the popular oriental sweets. So I decided to figure out what the Turkish delight recipe is made of and whether it is possible to cook it yourself at home. And I realized that nothing is impossible! Starch with sugar and the desire to make dessert - that's all you need.

Turkish delight with cherry jam

Having rummaged through the Internet, I found an acceptable recipe for making Turkish delight. Gradually we will bring the product to perfection by adding nuts to it and cooking on gelling agents, but for now let's focus on the actual simple version. Soft and fragrant sweet pieces just melt in your mouth.

To maximize the benefits of our dessert, add to it natural dye and flavoring - cherry. We start cooking and after 5-6 hours you will have almost 1 kg. oriental delicacy.

Ingredients:

• Sugar - 300 gr.
• Water - 2 glasses.
• Corn starch - 1 cup.
• Lemon juice- 1 tbsp. a spoon.
• Cherry jam - 3 tbsp. spoons.
• Powdered sugar - for sprinkling.

We prepare the basis

Shaping oriental sweetness

Homemade Turkish Delight has a fragrant and pronounced cherry taste. Of course, the calorie content of such a dessert is high, about 300 kcal per 100 g. but if eaten wisely, it will not cause much harm to the figure.

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 at the confectioner.

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

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What is Turkish delight made of: calories and composition

In Turkey, Turkish delight, the photo of which is 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 corn starch, flour, nuts, sugar and a variety of fruit components - juice or berries. How many calories are in Turkish Delight?

Benefit and harm

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

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

In conjunction with cornstarch glucose forms a component that enhances immunity. For the most part, the benefits depend on the flavor components that are traditionally part of Turkish delight: fruits are enriched with vitamins, and thanks to honey, digestion and blood quality improve.

Big share useful substances found in nuts found 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 overuse Turkish delight can lead to diabetes, hypertension and obesity, therefore, people with chronic diseases or those leading a sedentary lifestyle should better refuse sweets. Plus, the delicacy spoils the enamel and can cause caries.

With special care should be taken to the 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 with breast milk.


Many talk about the benefits and harms of Turkish Delight. classic look sweets consumed in small quantities will not harm at all, but it is better to introduce it into the diet gradually, watching for a possible allergic reaction. So that the freshness and quality of the product is not in doubt and you can get the most out of it, Turkish delight, recipes with photos of which you will find in the next section, it is better to cook at home on your own.

Turkish Delight: Recipes

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

Apple

The recipe for Turkish Delight from apples is quite simple. We will need:

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

1. First you need to prepare apple jam. To do this, a little water is poured into the saucepan, sugar is added. Peeled and core and cut apples are lowered into the syrup, where they languish a little. Finely chopped walnuts are also added there.
2. Starch must be dissolved in cold water and poured into a 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 recipe for apple Turkish delight - the sweetness will languish on the fire for at least an hour.
3. The bottom and edges of the form are covered with cling film, where the hot mass is laid out.
4. After it has cooled, it must be placed in the refrigerator to harden.
5. After 12 hours, Turkish delight can be taken out of the mold, cut into cubes and rolled in coconut flakes.

As you can see, you can easily cook Turkish delight with apples at home according to the recipe, and the video lesson 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 of citric acid;
• coconut flakes to taste.

1. Sugar and starch are added to heated water until completely dissolved and, with constant stirring, boiled for at least an hour. The resulting mass should be viscous and thick. This is the basis - white Turkish delight.
2. Before it has cooled, you can add flavoring fillers, or you can leave classic version- cut the sweetness frozen in the form and roll in coconut flakes or powdered sugar.

Cooking a classic oriental sweet is not difficult, but it takes a lot of patience, diligence and time. it basic recipe 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 bulk.

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

carrot

For Turkish delight from carrots you need:

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

1. Carrots need to be grated and put in a saucepan, where add sugar and a little water. The mass should languish over low heat for at least 10 minutes.
2. After that, lemon zest and finely chopped nuts are added there.
3. Starch dissolved in a small amount of water is carefully poured into a boiling mass, after which it is boiled until thickened.
4. As in classic recipes, the resulting Turkish delight is laid out in a mold, cools down and left in the refrigerator for 12 hours until it hardens. After that, 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:

1. It is customary to store cooked 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.
2. Do not replace parchment with film or foil - they do not protect against moisture, so the sweetness will quickly deteriorate. Contact with air must also be avoided, so paper-wrapped Turkish delight is stored in a special container.

Already in the 19th century oriental sweetness received great publicity throughout Europe after the Brussels exhibition, where she won a gold medal. "Turkish Delight" - that's what the British called Turkish delight, who especially liked the delicacy at tea drinking.

From that moment traditional recipes have not changed, and the sweetness is still very popular today. And as you have already noticed, in order to try Turkish delight it is absolutely not necessary to fly to Turkey, it is quite easy to cook at home with certain ingredients. Be patient and you will certainly succeed. But still, we advise you to go to Turkey, enjoy not only sweets, but also a wonderful beach holiday (,). Make a unique ( , ), ( , ).