Rahat lakoum - the popular east delicacy possessing very pleasant and delicate flavor. The sweet is also considered a national dish in Greece. Sometimes the dessert is called just in a word - lucumas. There is rather large number of its versions, however an essential ingredients remains invariable - sugar and starch.
It is required to you
- - 1 1/2 glasses of sugar;
- - 1/2 glasses of corn starch;
- - 100 ml of crimson or strawberry syrup;
- - citric acid on a tip of a knife or 1 tablespoon of lemon juice;
- - 1 glass of icing sugar (for a posypaniye).
Instruction
1. Mix a berry syrup, lemon juice and sugar in a tolstodonny pan, add about 100 ml of the pure filtered water and you cook on moderate fire before full dissolution of granulated sugar, periodically stir slowly mix with a wooden spoon or a scapula.
2. When mix begins to boil, remove a skin and reduce fire to minimum. Now you cook syrup before test "on a firm ball". For this purpose drip a mix droplet in cold water - it has to turn into firm "caramel".
3. Dissolve starch in very cold water in a proportion 1:3 so that there were no lumps. Pour in heat-resistant capacity and put on weak fire. You cook until mix thickens, at periodic stirring. Уварившийся remove starch from fire.
4. When syrup reaches the necessary consistence, add starched mix. Mix and cook within 25 minutes until thick on small fire, periodically stirring slowly with a wooden spoon.
5. Cover a rectangular shape, a baking tray or any suitable trays with parchment paper or food wrap. Pour out from above a little cooled down weight and level a surface by means of a damp spoon. Let's stiffen within 4-5 hours, it is possible to remove for the night in the fridge.
6. Cut the stiffened weight on square pieces, and then roll in in icing sugar. The rahat lakoum can be stored in a dry cardboard box.