A Kitchen Full of Joy!

Embassy Academy's pastry classes continue to attract great attention. 

This week we had the home version of a very well-known Turkish street food "simit".

And a traditional Turkish desert, helva.

Here are the recipes:

Simit

Ingredients:

1 cup of oil

1 teaspoon of salt

1.5 teaspoon of sugar

1 tablespoon of yeast

2 cups of warm water
Flour

Sesame

Grape molasses

Preparation:

*In a deep container, add some warm water, 1 tablespoon yeast and 1.5 coffeespoon sugar and mix them together *Let it fermente for 10 minutes *Mix the remaining ingredients (first add liquid ones) and get a soft dough *Let the dough fermante for 20 minutes *Give the dough a “simit” shape *Dilute the boiled grape juice with water *Dip the simits into the boiled grape juice mixture and sesame *Cook the simits in a oven at 375 F

Helva

Ingredients:

4 cups of flour

1 cup of crushed-walnut

2 cups of oil

For the syrup:

3 cups of sugar

3 cups of water

Preparation:

*Fry the oil

*Then add 4 cups of flour and roast it

*Add 1 cup crushed-walnut and keep roasting *In a different container, add 3 cups of water and 3 cups of sugar and mix them together *After you get the syrup, add it above the halva