Tulumba (Turkish Dessert)

Ingredients list for Tulumba (Turkish Dessert)

• 1½ cups Refined flour (maida)
• 1½ cups Semolina (rawa/suji)
• 2 tablespoons Butter
• ½ teaspoon Sugar
• a pinch Salt
• 2 tablespoons Cornflour/ corn starch
• 3 Eggs
• for deep-frying Oil
• Syrup -
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice

Method

1. Heat a non-stick pan. Add one and half cups water, butter, sugar and salt, stir and bring to a boil. Add flour and whisk continuously.
2. Remove pan from heat, add cornstarch and semolina and mix well. Set aside to cool.
3. Break in the eggs gradually and whisk well using an electric beater to prepare a batter.
4. Fill a piping bag fitted with a star nozzle with the batter.
5. Heat sufficient oil in a pan.
6. To prepare sugar syrup, heat the sugar with one and three-fourth cups water and bring to a boil. Add lemon juice and remove the scum that floats on top. Once the sugar syrup reaches one string consistency, switch off the heat and set aside.
7. Pipe out the batter directly into the hot oil, cutting the ends with the help of scissors to get two inch strips and deep-fry till light golden.Transfer into the sugar syrup and soak for two minutes.
8. Drain and serve immediately.