🇹🇷 Türkiye cuisine · #18
Lokum (Turkish Delight)
Time120 min
Serves40
Ingredients7
Soft, chewy cubes of starch and sugar flavoured with rose water, lemon or pistachio and dusted with icing sugar.
Ingredients
Method
- Boil sugar with 300 ml water and lemon to 115°C.
- Whisk cornflour with the remaining water over heat until a thick gel.
- Gradually add the syrup and cook an hour, stirring, until golden and stretchy.
- Add rose water and pistachios and pour into a dusted tin.
- Set overnight, cut into cubes and toss in sugar.