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Turkish ice cream (dondurma)

Name: Turkish ice cream (dondurma)
Yield: 8
Ingredients: ½ vanilla pod seeds only; 150g caster sugar; 2 tsp sahlep; 1 litre goat's milk; extra-virgin olive oil to serve

Kemal Demirasal

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Serves 6 - 8

Easy

Prep: 5 mins

Cook: 30 mins

plus cooling and freezing

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Try Turkish ice cream this summer, made with goat's milk and vanilla. Finish with a drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil

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Try our dondurma, then check out our Turkish delight recipe and guide to Turkish coffee. Now learn how to cook like a local from Turkey and discover more Turkish recipes, such as Turkish gozleme, Turkish lahmacun and Turkish stuffed peppers. For more unique ice creams, check out our trend spotlight on unusual ice cream flavours.

Salep – also spelled sahlap or sahlep – is a starchy flour made from the tubers of orchids, and is used in Turkish cuisine to make ice cream. It gives a very consistent texture and a unique flavour to the ice cream. Find it online.

Turkish ice cream (dondurma) recipe

Ingredients

Nutrition

½ vanilla pod

seeds only
150g caster sugar
2 tsp sahlep
1 litre goat's milk
extra-virgin olive oil

to serve

Nutrition: Per serving (8)

kcal159
fat4.8g
saturates3.1g
carbs25.1g
sugars24.2g
fibre0g
protein4g
salt0.1g

Method

step 1

Mix the vanilla pod seeds, 1 tsp of sugar, the sahlep and 150ml of milk in a bowl. Heat the rest of the milk and the sugar in a pan until boiling. Add the sahlep mixture to the pan and slowly mix over a low heat for 30 mins. Once it gets thicker, take it off the heat and let it cool, mixing every 10 mins.
step 2

When it has cooled to room temperature, add a pinch of salt, pour it into an ice cream maker and churn following the manufacturer's instructions. Once the ice cream is frozen and thickened, transfer to a container and put in the freezer for 30 mins. Serve with a spoonful of extra-virgin olive oil.

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Kemal Demirasal

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