Turkish cuisine is known for its delicious Turkish sweets, as it has a large number of sweets with an incredibly beautiful taste.
If it is your first time in Turkey, we will know you in this article on the sweetest 7 Delicious Turkish Sweets that you will immediately like when you taste them.
1-Baklava
Baklava is on top of Turkish sweets dishes, it is one of the most famous sweets that Turkey is distinguished by.
It is an ideal light dessert consisting of a simple mixture of pastries and stuffed with chopped walnuts and soaked in sweet syrup, and the Baklava may sometimes be served with ice cream.
Baklava is characterized by containing a variety of nuts that vary from one region to another, the most famous of which is the baklava of Gazi Antep, which is stuffed with pistachios and that’s best Turkish Baklava in the country.
2-Kunafa
Kunafa is originally a mixture of dough that is formed in the form of strings and it is known in many other countries such as Egypt and the countries of the Middle East in addition to Turkey.
The layer of kunafa is placed and then the filling, which is usually made of a mixture of nuts and ground pistachios And sometimes cheese and then another layer of kunafa on top of the filling, and then it is cooked and watered with syrup and sometimes it is served with ice cream, which is an old traditional dish dating back to the tenth century.
3-Turkish Delight
This dessert is widely consumed by the Turks and is also on the list of souvenirs that tourists buy when they are in Turkey. It contains a variety of flavours that you will like when you taste them.
It is made of starch and sugar and thousands of boxes are sold all over Turkey every day despite the fact that the Turks generally consume it in Turkey. For special occasions, these sweets were made by the confectioner Haji Bakr Effendi in the Ottoman era.
4-Turkish Chicken Desert (Tavuk Göğsü)
The Turkish chicken dessert is often similar to the pudding that was prepared in the Middle Ages. It used to be served as dessert to the Ottoman Sultans, and now it’s a Turkish sweet dish that contains slices of finely chopped chicken.
5-Rice with Turkish Milk (Sütlaç)
Those of us do not like to eat rice with delicious milk, and in Turkey you will also find rice candy with milk that is prepared with starch and red sugar and served in small dishes and you will find these sweets all over the country sold in supermarkets in addition to that you will find it present and strongly on Menus of traditional Turkish restaurants.
6- Poppy Candy “Hashahash” with sugar and jam (Haşhaşlı Şekerpare Tatlısı)
Yes, this is what I heard. This plant, from which types of drugs are extracted, are also known in some regions of Turkey, especially Anatolia, by using its pills and some of its ingredients in cooking and sweets. These poppy candies are delicious, whether it is black poppy powder or paste.
There is also poppy bread and meat poppy in Anatolia, which is the most delicious type of meat in Turkey, whether in the oven or as kebabs on charcoal only in Anatolia, far from Istanbul and the coastal cities.
7-Kataifi nuts with milk (Uşak Usulü Sütlü Kadayıf)
Kadif nuts with milk, the first type of kadif here in this list is for Turkish sweets, but do not be surprised when kunafa is used a little in it, as it came out of the elite Turkish gourmet kitchens and was adopted by some of the Ottoman sultans more than three hundred years ago. The most common ingredient is pistachios.