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Gul Tatlisi (Rose Dessert)

You want to amaze people? Then make gul tatlisi (rose dessert), your guests are going to be impressed with your cooking skills!

This really looks like roses, and it is very very easy to make! Surprised huh? Well, why dont you give it a try and see for yourself?

This recipe is also by Fadime, she has the cutest little baby Orhan and two other older boys, Omar and Ahmet. They are all very well behaved boys. Fadime is from Turkey too. She says, she makes practical recipes, easy, fast and ofcourse great! Its hard to believe that, she makes amazing stuff all the time. But yesterday after I saw how she made this dessert, I have gained confidence. I can make this too!!

Ingredients: (makes almost 3- 9×13 inch trays)
1/2 cup margarine, (the cups we use for coffee, use the same cup for all the measurements)
1/2 cup oil,
1 cup yoghurt,
1 egg,
1 1/2 tbsp baking powder,
1 packet vanillin (1 tsp)
1 cup turkish semolina (irmik( its a little bit thicker than regular semolina) in turkish, and rava/suji in indian languages)
Flour (approx 3 cups)
walnut halves

Sugar Syrup:
4 cups sugar,
4 1/2 cups water,
lemon juice

First mix all the ingredients listed in the dough part, except the flour. After its mixed well, start adding the flour gradually to get a soft dough. Try pinching out a little piece and rolling it out. If its sticky, then add some more flour.

Start making the sugar syrup now, keep it for boiling on high about 15 mins, and then add 1 lemon juice and then keep it on medium for another 15 mins. After its done, keep it aside for cooling.

Now make about 4-5 parts of the dough, and then roll out one at a time. Sprinkle some flour on the rolling board. It should be pretty thin. Now use a cookie cutter or a glass with a thin rim, to cut out circles, about 2 1/2 -3 inches diameter as shown in the picture.

Now finally, follow the steps shown in the picture below to make your roses.

Bend the ends to make petals of the roses with your fingers.

Thats it, dont they look pretty?

Now arrange them in a tray and bake at 350 deg F. till golden red. You will get the aroma in your kitchen when its almost done.

Turn it off. Pull out the trays and let them cool a bit. Basically, either both syrup and roses should be warm or one cold and other hot (not boiling). So the syrup gets soaked in by the roses. Atleast wait for 6 hours before serving.

July 6th, 2006