Eastern dessert
Description
I want to show you one of the most accessible and simple recipes—try and enjoy delicious homemade lokum! Main ingredients: water, sugar, and starch. Fruit juices or food colorings are also added. See more details in the recipe.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients, using 250 ml glasses. Let's get started!
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Step 2
Take a deep, convenient pot. Add one cup of starch and 1.5 cups of sugar. Mix well.
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Step 3
Add water and fruit juice.
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Step 4
Mix the mixture well with a whisk. While constantly and thoroughly stirring, bring the mixture to a boil. The mixture will gradually thicken during heating, so it is important to keep stirring all the time to prevent burning.
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Step 5
When the mixture reaches a consistency similar to a fairly thick fruit jelly, add 3 tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice.
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Step 6
Cook the future rahat-lokum over the lowest heat. I can't give you the exact time, but it takes me about 15-20 minutes. The mixture will become transparent, stretchy, and start pulling away from the sides of the pot. That means it's ready.
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Step 7
Rinse the mold for Turkish delight with water, then quickly spread the fruit mixture with a spoon. The mixture sets and hardens very quickly. Leave it on the counter until completely cooled (about an hour is sufficient). Then let the dessert stabilize at room temperature for a couple more hours.
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Step 8
The dessert is ready! Mix one spoon of powdered sugar with three spoons of starch. Dust the cutting board with the sugar-starch mixture. Carefully transfer the Turkish delight onto the board; the dessert should easily come away from the sides of the glass mold.
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Step 9
It remains to cut the loukoum into pieces. Cut with a sharp knife, rolling each cube in powdered starch.
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Step 10
The deboned pieces are completely ready to eat. Soft and tasty, tenderly springy.
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Step 11
This is the amount of loukoum I ended up with. Give it a try!
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Step 12
Can be served.