LOKOOM - TURKISH DELIGHT

INGREDIENTS: Serves 6-8

• 1/2 cup cornstarch

• 8 cups sugar

• 3 tablespoons lemon juice

• 8 cups hot water

• 3 drops Bergamot oil
✎**SEE COOKS NOTES**
• 3 tablespoons rosewater or 3 tablespoons orange flower water (optional for an orange or rose
   petal flavor)
• 1 1/2 cups chopped pistachio nuts or almonds [optional]

• Powdered sugar


PREPARATION:
1.  Mix constarch an sugar together in a large pan. Add the lemon juice and water and cook over
     medium heat until the liquid becomes thickened and a lightly golden in color. Turn the heat
    down to low and cook for 2 hours.

2.  At about 1 hour and 45 minutes, add the Bergamot oil and the chopped nuts. You are now ready   
     to transfer the candy to a buttered pyrex plate to cool the You can tell the right consistency when
     the liquid jells and separates from the sides of the pan and forms a large ball. 

3.  Pour contents into a buttered pyrex pie plate and let cool.  It is best to cool overnight.

4.  When cool, cut into 1 inch squares✎**SEE COOK'S NOTES** and sprinkle the candy generously with a ˝ & ˝ combination of
     powdered sugar and cornstarch.

Serve.

COOKS NOTES**  
1.  Bergamot oil is a citrus essential oil and can be found in aroma-therapy shops,  good spice shops or
baking supply stores. *You can substitute with 2 TBL. orange flower water or 3 DROPS Boyajians orange
oil.  Also found in good cooking stores such as Williams-Sonoma or top supermarkets.

2.  It is best to oil your knife before cutting the squares,  as the lokoom will have a tendency to stick to
the knife blade.

NOTE: ALTHOUGH NOT THE EXACT RECIPE SHOWN,  THE VIDEO BELOW MIGHT BE OF HELP.


  HOW TO MAKE TURKISH DELIGHT