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This ice-cream was very popular in Turkey around 60s and 70s. At least it was very popular in the movies from those years.
Preparation takes about 20 minutes, and freezing time varies. You can also serve it while it is still warm, as a pudding.
You can hear the dictum "Eat sweet, speak sweet" from the elders very frequently in Turkey. So, it is no wonder why almost every Turkish gathering starts with serving candy, and does not end before serving a dessert.
Due to the Sufi tradition, sweets and desserts had special places in the Ottoman cuisine. As the successor of the Ottomon cuisine, Turkish cuisine also has a broad variety of desserts.
Last year, I bought a yellow squash from the farmers' market, located in the downtown. When I got bored one day, I turned it into a welcome sign. It survived about 9 months. Last week, I realized that it started to go bad, so I had to cook it ASAP.
When I was skinning it, it struck me why I started drawing pictures on it instead of cooking it. I hate skinning a squash. Everytime I skin a squash, I cut my fingers. This time it was my thumb.
Halva is the name of two distinctly different types of dessert. One of them is candy like dessert made from tahini, and can be stored for a very long time. It is very popular in the Middle East, the Balkans, and other areas around the Mediterranean.
The other one is made from semolina (or flour), and should be consumed relatively shorter time. Semolina halva is a very common dessert in Turkey. (And I recenlty learned it is also a very common dessert in India).
This desert is known as a Greek or Middle Eastern desert. However, the best baklava I have ever eaten is from the Southeast region of Turkey so far. It is moist and dissolve in your mouth easily, and not as heavy.
It is relatively easy to make it with a ready-to-use phyllo dough and makes approximately 15 serves.
This is a very easy and a light dessert. It makes two servings. In original recipe includes walnut, instead of chestnut. But this months Turkish food blogs' event required something with chestnut.
In Antalya, in Turkey, people dry figs open, and make desserts with boiling them in milk. I like the taste, and I try to make this dessert whenever I have a chance.
Even though, the cranberry sauce is a traditional sauce that is served with turkey in Thanksgiving Day, I like to it as a dessert.
It is a light dessert, it is healthy, and it is really easy to prepare.
Ingredients:
1 package fresh cranberry
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
20 oz canned pineapple (drain the water)
1 cup walnut (finely chopped)
