An outlandish treat entices the sweet tooth with its sugar barrel from the window of a sweet shop. A wonderful variety of tastes, a surge of energy, pleasure - all this gives Turkish delight. The composition of sweets for many buyers remains a mystery. Let us open the veil of secrecy over the composition, the calorie content of goodies, and also find out the recipe for walnut delight.
A romantic story about the creation of Turkish delight
A tender sweet treat was born for the sake of love. More precisely, as a gift to beloved women. The homeland of lokum is Turkey, which has always been famous for its loving sultans and harems. At the end of the 18th century, the famous sultan and lovelace Ali Haji Bekir ordered his confectioner to come up with such a treat that would give his beloved women a real pleasure. The gift before the night of love was to be Turkish delight. The composition of the sweets helped to rekindle passionate desires, add strength to love games. It was for this purpose that Turkish delight was first prepared. By the way, these properties of a confectionery product are not a legend at all, which allows these days lovers to pamper each other on a date with this culinary miracle.
Turkish delight: composition, calories and traditional Turkish recipe
The traditional obligatory components of oriental sweets are starch, molasses, sugar. To give the confectionery a variety of flavors, the composition includes fruit sweet juices, berries, nuts, candied fruits, chocolate, coconut, vanilla. Real Turkish Turkish Delight is a test of confectioner's skill and patience. The recipe is so time-consuming that its implementation will take more than two days. The main secret of the taste of the confectionery delicacy is that the sweet mass is prepared with constant stirring, it freezes for a long time. Also, the composition of the sweets includes water infused with rose petals, lemon juice, and tartar. Confectioners make syrup from these ingredients, which must be kneaded and cooked for more than three hours until a golden hue is obtained. After that, fillers of your choice are added to the resulting viscous mass. It can be any confectionery products. Then the resulting composition is distributed over a baking sheet, allowed to congeal for 12 hours. Only the field of this candy can be shaped, roll in icing sugar or coconut. This is how difficult and long it takes to prepare real Turkish delight. The composition of the components determines the calorie content of the product, which is 350 kcal per 100 grams of finished sweets.
Turkish delight: composition and recipe at home
And what do housewives make Turkish delight from? After all, their delicacy is no worse than Turkish sweetness both in taste and in useful properties. Let's try to simplify the traditional Turkish delight, the composition of which is quite complicated. We will try to achieve excellent results.
Ingredients:
- Starch - 250 grams.
- Sugar - 200 grams.
- Chilled boiled water - 300 ml.
- Nuts to choose from: almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews.
- Vanilla Sugar - 1 teaspoon.
- Powdered sugar for sprinkling.
- Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons.
Cooking
First of all, you need to cook a thick syrup. To do this, pour 100 ml of water into a pan and add 200 grams of sugar, cook, stirring and removing foam. In parallel, you need to dissolve 250 grams of starch in two glasses of water. Starch is poured into the hot syrup gradually, allowed to stand for a while, until the mass becomes transparent. Then you need to grease the tray with sunflower oil, add nuts, vanilla sugar there. A sweet mixture is poured into the tray, allowed to cool for 5-6 hours (minimum). After that, the candy mass is cut into pieces and crumbled in icing sugar.
To keep the sweetness well, it must be placed on parchment for baking in a tin box. Bon appetit, sweet tooth!