Turkey

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Soft semolina cookies that drink up lemony syrup. Each one is literally a piece of sugar.

120 minTime

4 gProtein each

mildSpice

Make it your way

Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.

The original

323kcal

4 gprotein

1 gfibre

120minutes

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.

Sugar1½ cups for syrup, plus 1/4 cup powdered

Water1⅓ cups

Lemon juice2 tsp

Butter½ cup plus 1 tbsp, soft

Egg1

Vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract)½ tsp

Rava (semolina)¼ cup fine semolina

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)1¾ cups

Baking powder1 tsp

Almonds20 blanched halves

5 steps

1Boil 1 1/2 cups sugar with the water, add the lemon juice and cool completely.
2Cream the butter and powdered sugar, beat in the egg and vanilla, then mix in the semolina, maida and baking powder to a soft dough.
3Roll into 20 balls, flatten slightly and press an almond into each. Space them on a lined tray.
4Bake at 180 C until deep golden.
5Pour the cool syrup over the hot cookies and leave until most is absorbed.

Serve it like this

Lift onto a plate with a spoon of syrup from the tray and serve at room temperature.

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