Turkish Delight
Turkish Delight
Can someone recommend a good Turkish delight and where I can get it? I'm not very familiar with this sweet meat but loved the ones that were introduced to me once years ago. (Homemade and heavenly!)
Recently my MIL bought me a box (Sebahat) which she picked up from one of the Oriental stores at Rautatieasema. Rather good but I remember the ones I had before were chock full of pistachios and other delicious bits. While the Sebahat sweets (made in Belgium I checked) are rather good, they are dusted with grated coconut and have only one pistachio nut in the centre.
Thank you and waiting to satisfy the sweet tooth!
Recently my MIL bought me a box (Sebahat) which she picked up from one of the Oriental stores at Rautatieasema. Rather good but I remember the ones I had before were chock full of pistachios and other delicious bits. While the Sebahat sweets (made in Belgium I checked) are rather good, they are dusted with grated coconut and have only one pistachio nut in the centre.
Thank you and waiting to satisfy the sweet tooth!
Re: Turkish Delight
You should check the Oriental stores - they have different varieties of this Turkish Delight (Loukoum) available. Not all of them are coconut-covered! Just quite recently I bought a box of delicious powdered sugar -coated rosewater-scented loukoums in Helsinki - can't remember the name of the shop nor the brand... but they are available. I also think I've seen the pistachio Loukoum thingies in those very same shops.Shazzer wrote:Can someone recommend a good Turkish delight and where I can get it? I'm not very familiar with this sweet meat but loved the ones that were introduced to me once years ago. (Homemade and heavenly!)
Recently my MIL bought me a box (Sebahat) which she picked up from one of the Oriental stores at Rautatieasema. Rather good but I remember the ones I had before were chock full of pistachios and other delicious bits. While the Sebahat sweets (made in Belgium I checked) are rather good, they are dusted with grated coconut and have only one pistachio nut in the centre.
Thank you and waiting to satisfy the sweet tooth!
Thank you all! Rosewater scented loukoms sounds mouthwatering! Will be on the prowl in search for them. Are there many types of Turkish delight (just as there are many types of chocolates)? I'm totally clueless here because the only "authentic" one I had was made by someone in South Africa! It didn't have grated coconut on it though.
Has anyone tried the sweetmeats from India/Sri Lanka? Very gooey, sticky, sweet and made with ghee. I got a box of these delicacies a few months back and that made me realised that I have awakened the sweet tooth monster in me!
Has anyone tried the sweetmeats from India/Sri Lanka? Very gooey, sticky, sweet and made with ghee. I got a box of these delicacies a few months back and that made me realised that I have awakened the sweet tooth monster in me!
Yes, there are several types. I also once bought the kind of Loukoum that was covered in grated coconut - whilst I do like the occasional nibble at coconut I did not think that particular combination was very pleasant.Shazzer wrote:Thank you all! Rosewater scented loukoms sounds mouthwatering! Will be on the prowl in search for them. Are there many types of Turkish delight (just as there are many types of chocolates)? I'm totally clueless here because the only "authentic" one I had was made by someone in South Africa! It didn't have grated coconut on it though.
Has anyone tried the sweetmeats from India/Sri Lanka? Very gooey, sticky, sweet and made with ghee. I got a box of these delicacies a few months back and that made me realised that I have awakened the sweet tooth monster in me!
Mind you, the Greek (or is it Turkish?) Halva also is quite nice, and comes in all sorts of varieties - including pistachio.
The only Indian "sweets" I've tasted (never actually having been to that part of the world) would be the Gulab Jamon (?), a very sweet and syrupy dessert delicacy. Some Indian-style restaurants have them on the menu.
Aahh, gulab jamun
I miss those. I had some rasgulla the other day, thinking that they would
rid me of the taste for gulab jamun, but they didn't. And I didn't
particularly care for the rasgulla either
Or were you referring to these?
Njam
-enk
I miss those. I had some rasgulla the other day, thinking that they would
rid me of the taste for gulab jamun, but they didn't. And I didn't
particularly care for the rasgulla either
Or were you referring to these?
Njam
-enk
There used to be a couple of Indian sweet shops on the Curry Mile in Rusholme (Manchester), looked very syrupy to me, I also remember some bizzare looking ones made with gold leaf.sammy wrote:The only Indian "sweets" I've tasted (never actually having been to that part of the world) would be the Gulab Jamon (?), a very sweet and syrupy dessert delicacy. Some Indian-style restaurants have them on the menu.
I never used to have any room after the curry though. Burp.*
* copyright Hank W.
Yummy stuff!enk wrote:Aahh, gulab jamun
I miss those. I had some rasgulla the other day, thinking that they would
rid me of the taste for gulab jamun, but they didn't. And I didn't
particularly care for the rasgulla either
Or were you referring to these?
Njam
-enk
I'm off to tutor my little Indian girl. I think I'll ask her dad for the gulab jamun recipe.
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I thought it was due to dental care, if you burp after them turkish delights you need to collect your legos on the platter...sinikala wrote:I never used to have any room after the curry though.
Somehow I just can't eat that kind of "sugar rush" stuff... if humanely possible *too sweet*... I always stare (yes, with that Finnish copyright *stare*) at people emptying a box of that sweet stuff...
Cheers, Hank W.
sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.
sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.
Mine, too.efx wrote:my favorite lokum is rose flovaured one, mmmmh
You know the old legend of Dom Perignon, having accidentally invented champagne (when trying to concote a new Alchemist liquid that would turn base thing into gold), he is supposed to have said, after the first sip: I am drinking stars!
(Mind you the legend fails to tell what Dom Perignon mumbled after the following eighty-seven sips of the same)
Anyway... in the case of these favourite loukoums, we could also say "I am eating roses!"
On hindsight however this is rather something a horse might say so maybe it's best to be silent.