Jane Grigson

Helvaci Kabağl Kompostosu

Sweet pumpkin

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8–10

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Cooking of the Mediterranean
The Cooking of the Mediterranean

By Jane Grigson

Published 1991

  • About

Serve this brilliant, Turkish sweet dessert in tiny quantities. It has an Arabian Nights air to it.

Ingredients

  • 1 kg (2 lb) slice of pumpkin
  • 250 g (9

Method

Peel the pumpkin and remove the seeds and cottony part. Cut it into neat flat pieces.

Bring the sugar slowly to the boil with 150 ml (¼ pint) water, stirring so that the sugar dissolves before boil