10 Recipes
Baklava
Dozens of butter-brushed filo layers packed with pistachios or walnuts and soaked in a fragrant sugar syrup.
Künefe
Shredded kadayif pastry sandwiching molten unsalted cheese, baked in a copper pan and drenched in syrup.
Turkish Delight
Soft, jewel-like squares of gel-set confection flavored with rose water or mastic, dusted in powdered sugar.
Sütlaç
A baked rice pudding caramelized under the grill until the surface is burnished golden, served chilled.
Kazandibi
A deliberately scorched milk pudding with a caramelized underside, rolled and dusted with cinnamon.
Aşure
A thick biblical pudding of boiled grains, legumes, dried fruits, and nuts shared generously on Muharram.
Helva
A dense, crumbly semolina or tahini sweet cooked in butter with pine nuts and raisins, served warm.
Muhallebi
A silky chilled milk pudding set with rice flour and perfumed with rose water, garnished with crushed pistachios.
Revani
A semolina and flour sponge soaked in lemon sugar syrup until glistening, topped with desiccated coconut.
Şekerpare
Soft semolina and almond cookies baked then bathed in lemon sugar syrup with a whole almond on each.