DAMLA SAKIZLI MUHALLEBİ

MASTIC GUM PUDDING

This is the second "mastic gum" recipe after the cookies. I just love the smell of mastic. It gives a regular pudding an extraordinary flavor.

Serves 4.

Ingredients:

• 3 tbsp of unsalted butter
• 3 tbsp of all purpose flour
• 3 pieces of mastic gum
• 6 tbsp of granulated sugar
• 3 cups of milk

Place the mastic gum in the freezer and let it sit there for 10 minutes and then take it out. Grind it in the coffee grinder until ground to the point of flour.

In a medium pot, melt the butter over medium heat. Add flour and stir until the flour gives its raw smell. Take the pot away from the heat. Add first cup of milk and whisk it consistently until smooth. Move the pot over the heat again and add the other two cups of milk, sugar and the gum. Mix it with a whisk and turn the heat up to high. Keep mixing until it starts to bubble and becomes ticker.Turn the heat off. Apportion the pudding into four bowls.

FINDIKLI KURABİYE

 HAZELNUT COOKIES


I like hazelnut a lot...
I searched for a good hazelnut cookie recipe for a while and I just couldn't find a good one. Finally, I ended up making my own:)
I decided to use hazelnut meal for the dough to reach max hazelnut flavor and coated them with chopped hazelnut. With the coat, cookies became very crunchy and tasty.
If you are like me, you will just love these cookies.

Makes 18 cookies.


Ingredients:

• 2+1/2 cups of all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup of hazelnut meal
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• 1 stick melted butter 
• 2 tbsp of plain yogurt
  
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 tsp of vanilla sugar
  
• 1/2 tsp of baking soda

For the topping:

• 1/2 cup of chopped hazelnut
• 1 egg white
  

Whisk sugar, egg yolk,yogurt in a large mixing bowl. Add butter and whisk. Add flour,vanilla sugar, baking soda and hazelnut meal and knead. Cover with plastic wrap and rest the dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Take it out and knead again. Take small parts ( about the size of an walnut ) from the dough and give them the shape of small balls and press them gently while they are still between your palms and  dip them ( just one side of the cookies )  first into egg white and then coat them with chopped hazelnut .Rest in the refrigerator for another 30 minutes. Preheat the oven 350 F. Bake the cookies for 30 minutes or until golden brown.