Turkish Delight Made easy

I've always loved Turkish delight sweets - so jelly like and flavourful. I wanted to try to make it at home and have found it surprisingly simple to do!

The results are pretty good and it's a great idea for if you want to gift someone something you can easily give these in a nice box as they are decorative and colourful

Ingredients

375g caster sugar

juice of 1 lemon

25g gelatine powder

75g cornflour

25g icing sugar

3 tsp rose water

2 - 3 drops food colour of any colour you wish (pink worked well for me but green, yellow and orange would also do)

50 g shelled unsalted pistachios - boiled, skinned and chopped

25 gms boiled, skinned and chopped almonds

Any vegetable oil, for brushing the tin

Method

To prepare for this dish, lightly oil a 20cm square baking tray and line it with cling film.

dust the bottom of the cling film with half the quantity of icing sugar and tip out the excess

So first you mix gelatin with 75 g cornflour and 200ml of water and keep aside

Then take a saucepan and put lemon juice, 300 ml of water and the sugar and bring it gently to a boil dissolving all the sugar

Once the above mixture starts boiling, add the cornflour mixture into it and keep stirring it together and keep on a medium flame for around 20 minutes till the mixture is reasonably thickened.

At this stage the mixture will look really awful - like some sick grey gloopy mixture but keep the faith and I promise you rewards will follow

Remove the pan from the heat, let it cool for a little bit, add the rose water, pistachios and almonds and food colour and mix all together.

Remove this mixture into the tin and allow it to cool completely at room temperature

Let it cool completely before you cut it into squares and dust it with the rest of the icing sugar