Saray Lokum Dessert
This is a Turkish Saray Lokum dessert recipe: a stovetop milk pudding made with milk, butter, flour, and sugar, flavored with vanilla after the heat is turned off, then poured over a layer of coconut or biscuits in a tray. Once cooled, it is topped with whipped cream Chantilly made with very cold milk or cold water, then sprinkled with crushed biscuits and served cold.
A Turkish-style sweet dessert made as Saray Lokumu.
Like a soft Turkish sweet candy or jelly dessert.
Chill well so it sets before cutting or serving.
Ingredients
- Milk
- Butter
- Flour
- Sugar
- Vanilla
- Coconut
- Biscuits
- Powdered cream Chantilly
Instructions
- In a pot over the heat, melt the butter completely.
- In the same pot, add the flour and stir it with the butter, lightly toasting the flour so that no floury taste remains.
- In the same pot, gradually add the milk, stirring quickly so that no lumps form.
- In the same pot, gradually add the sugar, stirring until it dissolves.
- In the same pot, continue stirring over the heat until the pudding begins to boil and bubbles appear, then turn off the heat.
- In a tray, make a layer of coconut or crushed biscuits, depending on what is available.
- In the pot after turning off the heat, add the vanilla and stir until it dissolves.
- In the tray, pour the pudding evenly over the layer of coconut or biscuits.
- Place the tray in the refrigerator for 1 to 2 hours, until cooled.
- In a bowl, whip the powdered cream Chantilly with 1 glass of very cold milk or water until a cream forms.
- Place the bowl of cream Chantilly in the refrigerator or freezer until chilled.
- In the tray, once the pudding has cooled, spread the layer of cream Chantilly over it.
- Sprinkle crushed biscuits over the top of the tray.
- Place the tray in the refrigerator or freezer for a little while, until set.
- Cut the dessert and serve it cold.