If you want to treat your sweet tooth to something extra special, you can do no better than turkish delights. These candies are sticky, chewy, and intensely sweet. Definitely not dentist-approved! But how can we resist, especially when making a batch in the microwave looks so easy?
Niamh Shields of Eat Like a Girl actually does two very clever things with her turkish delights: she makes them in the microwave following Harold McGee's method and she cuts the sweetness with a compote of tart gooseberries and elderflower liquor. This sounds like the perfect grown-up version of a classic childhood treat!
As Niamh says, making turkish delights in the microwave is a fussy endeavor, but far less fussy than making them on the stovetop. It involves several rounds of heating, stirring, and gradually mixing in the various ingredients, but the process itself is fairly straightforward. In about fifteen minutes, you can have your very own batch of candy.
Get the Recipe! Gooseberry and Elderflower Turkish Delights from Eat Like a Girl
Do you love turkish delight? Ever tried making it at home?
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(Image: Niamh Shields of Eat Like a Girl)
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Turkish delight always tastes like flowery soap to me. Does it vary by recipe?
@norainapeartree: I expect you've probably eaten the rose flavoured Turkish delight, I think other flavours might be less floral soapy to you, in the fact that they don't have those floral ingredients.
I confess, I like the lemon one best (my home town used to have a Turkish delight factory, when you walked past you could smell the lemony-icing sugar goodness). I'm not a fan of the mint flavour.... That to me, tastes like mild gel toothpaste that's been left to congeal.
I finally found a box of turkish delight early this summer. My daughter was so excited, she'd read about it in a few books. It had a slightly vanilla flavor and wasn't too sweet, we decided it tasted like the child of a gummy bear and a marshmallow. Thanks for sharing a recipe!