Grapefruit juice will bring natural pink to the color and pleasant citrus notes to the taste of this candy and peanuts will make it crunchy at the same time.
Course Dessert
Cuisine Middle Eastern
Keyword traditional turkish delight recipe, turkish delight recipe easy
Prep Time 25 minutesminutes
Cook Time 1 hourhour
Setting Time 20 hourshours
Total Time 21 hourshours25 minutesminutes
Servings 8servings
Calories 405kcal
Ingredients
2 grapefruits
140 gcornstarch+100 grams of cornstarch to toss candy in
550mlwater (400 ml for main mixture + 150 ml for syrup)
100gpeanuts
500gsugar
½tsp.citric acid
Instructions
Grapefruits should be of medium size and pink-colored. With grapefruit juice, you will get that soft caramel-pink color. Saturated tones only come out when you add artificial or natural coloring. (If you are open for it, then use only 1-2 drops while you are mixing water with grapefruit juice and cornstarch).
Firstly, you should roast peanuts in a non-stick pan with no oil. Heat pan for a minute on a low heat, then add peanuts and stir them for 10 minutes. Let them to cool down before using in a recipe. Note: use only cornstarch, do not use instead of it potato starch as your Turkish delight won`t taste good.
In any convenient way get juice out of grapefruits: electric juicer will be the easiest one.
Combine grapefruit juice with cornstarch. Stir the mass until the starch dissolves in the juice.
Add room-temperature water (400 ml) into the mixture of juice and cornstarch. Set aside it for now.
Combine 500 grams of sugar with citric acid in a separate saucepan.
Add 150 ml of water into the saucepan and place it over medium heat.
Stir the syrup until the sugar dissolves. It will take you approximately 7-9 minutes for mixture to become thick.
Once you made the sugar syrup, you should mix it with the cornstarch mixture and put it on the medium heat to boil. Whisk it until you fully incorporate all the ingredients.
When it boils, reduce the heat to low, stir the mixture for 5-7 minutes, and then remove your pan from the heat.
Add peanuts into the hot mixture and spread them evenly. Note: do not add peanuts into the saucepan that is still boiling, you do not want your peanuts to cook.
Pour syrup of Turkish delight into prepared dish and leave it to set at room temperature. It will take 20-25 hours for candy to get into the form of jelly.
Get your Turkish delight out of the pan onto non-stick surface: it can be either parchment paper or any surface powdered with cornstarch. Cut it into small square pieces with oiled long knife. To prevent stickiness of Turkish delight you should dust each side with cornstarch. Note: you may add powdered sugar to the mixture of cornstarch to make it sweeter.
Enjoy and do not forget that you store your homemade Turkish delight in a dry space (in an open cardboard box or container in 1 layer; if you have several layers then use parchment paper to separate them). Do not store Turkish delight in the fridge!