Turkish Delight - easy recipe

I LOVE a sweet treat on a regular basis. Turkish delight is one of those indulgences that just appeals to me, though not everyone in this household would agree - their loss. No more store bought delight for me...
Finally!! another recipe here that let's us make use of that bottle of rosewater just sitting in the pantry.

This is what you need:
400g sugar (500mls)
35g cornflour (75mls)
1ml (a pinch) of citric acid
200mls water
2 teaspoons rosewater (any more than that and you'll land up with something that tastes like bubblebath - so easy on the rosewater)
6 teaspons powdered gelatine mixed with 50mls water (or if you have leaf gelatine, use 12 sheets soaked in 400mls of water for 5 minutes before squeezing out the water)
pink food colouring
50g cornflour (105mls)
50g icing sugar (95mls)

This is how you do it:
Rub/spray some rice bran oil (or canola/sunflower oil - you want an oil with very little flavour/taste) around a 12x12cm pan/dish/tin. Make sure your dish is at least 5cm deep...
Mix 400g sugar, 35g cornflour, pinch of citric acid in 200mls of water
Heat over a LOW heat until the sugar has dissolved
Then cook this for 7 minutes (no need to use a temperature gauge - nice!)
Add the rosewater and prepared gelatine
Mix this in by stirring until the gelatine has melted
Then add some food colouring until you have the desired shade of pink
Simply pour this mix into your oil smeared pan and let it set/ cool down for a bit
Slam it in the fridge for 4 hours at least (on a breadboard worked well for us - to absorb any residual heat and also keep the mix level)
prepare the 50g cornflour and 50g icing sugar by sifting it into a flat bottomed bowl (or into a plastic bag)
Sprinkle some over your breadboard
When you're ready to serve/package: dunk the underside of your pan in hot water for literally a few seconds so that it comes loose easily and goes straight onto your dusted breadboard - ready to be sliced into small blocks or cut into whatever shapes you desire
Roll these blocks of sweet goodness into your cornflour/icing sugar mix
Then enjoy

If you want to jazz things up a bit, use orange-blossom water instead of rosewater and yellow/orange food colouring instead of the pink. Add some pistachio bits when you put the mix into the oiled pan

And if that ain't enough, look out for our Irish Moss recipe coming up soon - using this recipe but with liqourice and black Sambuka



Turkish Delight - easy recipe