What Do Turkish Delights Taste Like|Types Of Turkish Delight

Turkey is very diverse in food culture, and Turkish desserts and sweets are one of the delicious parts of this country’s food culture. Also, they are one of the original souvenirs of this country. If you are planning to travel to Turkey, it is better to familiarize yourself with the types of Turkish sweets and desserts that are worth trying once.

These sweets are prepared with various flavors and ingredients and often have sweet, creamy, pistachio, almond, fruit, and chocolate flavors. 

If you love sweets like me and you like to eat sweets every day, stay with me until the end of this article to learn about my experience eating Turkish delicacies and know what kind of sweets you should and should not buy.

What do Turkish delights taste like?

Turkish sweets have different flavors, such as cream, pistachio, almond, vanilla, chocolate, and various fruits. In the following, I have introduced the most famous Turkish sweets so that you can get to know the taste of each one.

Baklava

Baklava is one of the most popular sweets in Turkey; This sweet is known in Turkey and Azerbaijan, Russia, Iran, Greece, Cyprus, and some Arab countries.

Turkish baklava is one of the Turkish desserts with a different taste and aroma. It is one of Turkey’s most delicious and popular sweets, which has been popular since the time of the Eastern Roman Empire until today.

This sweet has a lot of variety and types among the main souvenirs of Turkey, which you can buy from the best baklava shops in Istanbul during your trip. This sweet is prepared from yufka dough, which is a thin dough, and walnuts and pistachios, which are layered on top of the dough and at the end, it is prepared with special juice, and nectar poured on it.

During your trip to Turkey, you can find a variety of baklava in walnut, chocolate, pistachio, almond, chocolate, and coconut flavors. Try all the flavours of baklava at least once..

Before buying baklava in Turkey, it is better to read the article “Is There Hafiz Mustafa At Istanbul Airport” to learn about Hafiz Mustafa’s baklava in Turkey.

şekerpare

şekerpare is sweet, similar to cookies, but has a sweeter taste. When you eat it, it is as if you put a piece of sugar in your mouth, which is why it is known as şekerpare. This sweet is placed in a special syrup with a unique aroma and then prepared.

Locum

Locum or Rahat al- Hulqum is a Turkish sweet from the family of jelly sweets made in orange, yellow, pink, and green colors with different fruit flavors and usually contains pistachios and almonds.

This sweet, usually eaten with tea in Turkey, is one of the cheap Turkish sweets you can get on your trip.

Turkish Baslogh

Baslogh is a soft, sweet, and chewy dessert with fans worldwide and is very famous. It can be found in different flavors, such as walnut, almond, pistachio, lemon, orange, etc., and these delicious sweets are famous as Turkish souvenirs.

The sale of this famous sweet is very popular in tourist areas, and about 520 tons of this sweet is exported to England every year.

Baslogh ingredients of Turkish sweets:

• Almond nuts or walnuts or, etc.
• Starch
• Sugar
• Gelatin
• Butter
• Sugar or honey syrup

 Trileçe cake 

Turkish Trileçe cake, or Turkish milk cake, is one of the most delicious sweets in Turkey, which became famous in a very short time in the Balkan period.

This sweet is more known in the Balkan countries, but how it is prepared differently in each country. Moreover, they offer this cake in various flavours, such as vanilla and fruit.

Ingredients for Trileçe Turkish Cake:

• vanilla
• egg
• Sugar
• Flour
•  baking powder

Turkish Irmik Halva

This dessert was cooked during the time of the Ottoman Caliph, and now you can easily find this delicious Halva in Turkey. Turkish Irmik Halva is a traditional Turkish sweet.

You can find Turkish  Irmik Halva in all restaurants in Turkey, but the city that specially offers this Halva is Izmir.

History of Turkish delight 

During the Ottoman rule, the king’s wives objected to the king and were not satisfied with the hard sweets, so the Ottoman king ordered to make the most delicious sweets for the harem women. Later, after several days, the court cooks started producing delicious sweets, the most famous of which is Lokum. From that day on, baking sweets and Lokum became popular in Turkey.

At the end of the line

Turkish people are very fond of sweets and desserts so you will see many varieties in this country. Turkish sweets are among the most delicious in the world, suitable for every taste, and worth trying once. If you love the sweet taste, try various desserts on your trip to Turkey.

My favorite sweet in Turkey was baklava, so I bought a few boxes for my family as souvenirs and sent them to them. I also suggest you purchase baklava as a souvenir.

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