Turkish Delight Rose Flavoured (2024)

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Magnificently bright pink and squidgy, this sugar-dusted Turkish delight is hard to resist. Made the traditional way, with cornstarch, this ‘Loukoumi’ - as it is known in Greece - is gelatine free and lightly sweetened with rose water and almond essence. Meanwhile, each irresistible block is naturally coloured with the dusty rose-coloured pigment Carmine. Our loukoumi is hand produced by master confectioner’s Drapetsonas, who have been lovingly making Greek sweets and halvas since 1924 and are considered the best in the world. Makes a wonderful and unusual dinner party gift, or serve at home as a treat with afternoon tea.

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Net content: 300g-1kg

Packaging: Paper bag or cardboard box

Suitable for Vegetarians and Vegans

Ingredients: Corn Starch, Sugar, Starch Syrup, Citrus Acid, Colorings, Flavorings.

Allergens: Sesame, Nuts

Cooking

Fine chop and sprinkle onto ice cream. Or serve alone with tea.

Producer

Halvas Drapetsonas, Drapetsona, Attica

The Halvas Drapetsonas workshop was opened in 1924 by Costas Mezardasoglou, a refugee from Asia Minor. Mezardasoglou had worked in a halva factory in Asia Minor, where he learned the art of hand-making traditional halva. Costas began making his own halva using rudimentary means, in an old wooden shack, a few metres away from where production takes place today. When the state donated some land to refugees, Kostas constructed the building that is still the Halvas Drapetsonas workshop. As the years passed, his son George became interested in the business and eventually took over production completely, as Costas became too old to work. Halvas Drapetsonas is the best in Greece, and remains today a traditional, family business, producing all kinds of traditional confectionary.

FAQs

With a refined and delicate floral taste of rose petals and softly sweet texture, these delights are a timeless luxurious treat! DELICIOUS FLAVOUR – With a refined and delicate floral taste of rose petals and softly sweet texture, these delights are a timeless luxurious treat!

It is made with sugar, cornstarch, pistachios, and rosewater. The pistachios give the Turkish delight a nutty flavor, while the rosewater gives it a sweet and floral aroma.

Pistachio Turkish Delight

It is the most popular lokoum flavour due to its soft balance between sweet Turkish delight and the flavours of the perfectly roasted Antep pistachio pieces.

Turkish delight or lokum (/lɔ. kʊm/) is a family of confections based on a gel of starch and sugar. Premium varieties consist largely of chopped dates, pistachios, hazelnuts or walnuts bound by the gel; traditional varieties are often flavored with rosewater, mastic gum, bergamot orange, or lemon.

Rose water tastes slightly sweet and floral. It enhances the flavor of fruits like strawberries and raspberries, or sweetens the flavor of milk-based recipes like yogurt, puddings, or ice cream.

Rose has a floral flavour profile most used in oriental cultures which notes are trendy that's why we could find present in so many food products in the market nowadays. Flavour Description: Rose flavour provides pungent and freshness notes tasted in mouth that ensure good taste alone or blended with other flavours.

The traditional red-pink version is flavoured with rosewater (IIRC the old ads for “Fry's Turkish Delight”, a chocolate bar with a crimson gel filling, used to claim attar of roses, though it was more likely some chemical simulation) while other colours used mint, lemon, fruit syrup etc.

Sugar: The main ingredient, sugar contributes the majority of calories in Turkish Delight. High sugar intake can lead to various health issues, including weight gain, dental problems, and an increased risk of chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes and heart disease if consumed in large quantities over time.

Lemon juice, champagne vinegar and rice vinegar are top alternatives.

This soft jewel-like sugar treat became popular among the people of Turkey—who know it as lokum—about the turn of the 19th century. The confectioner Hacı Bekir Effendi, who arrived in Constantinople (now Istanbul) from Anatolia in 1776, is often credited with its invention.

Made the traditional way, with cornstarch, this 'Loukoumi' - as it is known in Greece - is gelatine free and lightly sweetened with rose water and almond essence.

Turkish delight can be very sweet, which is why zingy citrus flavors, such as lemon, pair perfectly with it. When it comes to traditional Turkish delight flavors, lemon is often one of the less sweet varieties to try making it perfect for people who want to love Turkish delight but find it overly sweet.

Although it's important to keep your Turkish delight cool, don't store it in the fridge. Your refrigerator will draw more moisture out of your Turkish delight, causing it to sweat even after it has stabilized at room temperature. Turkish delight is best stored in a cool, dry place, away from direct sunlight.

If you aren't familiar with Turkish Delight, you might imagine all manner of delicious morsels. This rose-flavored substance halfway between jello and mochi isn't all that familiar to the American palate, but in England, Turkish Delight is a popular Christmas treat.

Cream of tartar: used as an acid to help with taste and texture. Flaked salt: This will help heighten the flavour, although you can leave it out if you prefer a low salt diet. Caster Sugar: This is fine sugar; it works best for this recipe because it dissolves better without making too many bubbles.

Scented Leaf. It has light green, hairy leaves, which are cordiform in shape and strongly rose scented – often noted to smell like Turkish delight. The very pale, pinky mauve flowers are carried in small umbels over a long period.

The Turkish rose, otherwise known as the Damascena rose or Damask rose, originates from Syria but is predominately cultivated in Bulgaria's fertile Valley of Roses and Turkey's Isparta province.

Tasting Notes

This Vodka has sumptuously juicy strawberries on the nose, with ripe, rich red berries on the palate. The smooth and sweet berry flavour lingers on the finish, inviting you back for another sip.

Turkish Delight Rose Flavoured (2024)

Halvas Drapetsonas, Drapetsona, Attica

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