Lokma Recipe
Turkish lokma is a popular sweet pastry made from sweet dough balls fried to golden brown and then soaked in syrup. A common street food throughout many Middle eastern countries.
Prep Time20 mins
Cook Time20 mins
Rising time1 hr 30 mins
Total Time2 hrs 10 mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Middle East
Diet: Halal
Servings: 15
Calories: 160kcal
For the dough:
- 1 ½ cup all purpose flour
- ½ Tablespoon sugar
- ½ Tablespoon dry yeast
- 1 Tablespoon cornstarch
- ½ cup warm water
- ½ cup yogurt plain full fat
- Oil for frying
For the syrup:
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 ¼ cup water
- 1 ½ teaspoon lemon juice
- ¼ cup honey
Flavors for the syrup: use any of the following
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract Or cinnamon stick, ½ teaspoon orange blossom water or rose water.
Optional nuts for garnishing:
- Roughly chopped pistachios or hazelnuts
Start the dough:
In the bowl of a stand mixer, add flour, sugar, yeast and mix for 30 seconds to combine.
Add water until a hard dough forms, if you find it too hard and does not come together add another tablespoon of water and mix.
Cover and let it rest for 30 minutes.
Make the syrup:
Combine syrup ingredients with the flavor of your choice in a medium sauce pan, stir to combine ingredients .
Bring to a boil on medium-high heat then reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Set aside to cool down completely.
Finish the dough:
After the 30 minutes, add yogurt to the mixture and knead with the flat beater for almost 5 minutes or until dough comes together.
Cover and let it rise for 1 hour at least or place in your fridge for up to 24 hours.
Fry dough balls
Heat oil for frying on medium-high heat.
When oil is hot, reduce heat to medium and start frying the dough.
Using a small ice cream scoop, dipped in oil form small balls and drop into the oil to fry.
Oil the ice cream scoop every now and then to ensure that the dough will glide easily from the scoop.
After the pan is full with dough balls, raise the heat up again to medium-high.
Fry the balls until they are golden brown.
Immediately take the dumplings out and dunk them in the simple syrup, stir to coat.
Get the dumplings out of the syrup after 3-4 minutes and place in a colander to drip excess syrup.
You can roll the balls in cinnamon sugar or make the chocolate syrup and pour it over. You can also dust the dumplings with powdered sugar.
Serve immediately as it is better when fresh.
- If you want to make a chocolate syrup you will need:
- corn syrup, sugar and heavy cream.
- In a medium bowl or measuring cup add chocolate and corn syrup.
- In a small sauce pan , stir together sugar and heavy cream until sugar dissolve, heat until just about bubbling at the edges,
- Pour the hot cream mixture over the chocolate and corn syrup and mix with a spatula until well combined.
- For the cinnamon sugar:
- ½ cup granulated sugar + 2 Tablespoons ground cinnamon
- For more tips and notes please check the post above.
Calories: 160kcal | Carbohydrates: 38g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 0.5g | Saturated Fat: 0.2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 6mg | Potassium: 29mg | Fiber: 0.4g | Sugar: 28g | Vitamin A: 8IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 13mg | Iron: 1mg