salep

A creamy hot milk drink with an amazing flavor that is wonderfully soothing. It is made with salep powder, sugar and milk. 

Turkish Salep Recipe

salep powder

sugar

milk

Cinnamon

Combine milk, sugar and salep powder in a large saucepan or thick-bottomed pot. Whisk them well.

Heat it over medium low heat, stirring constantly. 

Reduce the heat when the milk starts to boil. Keep stirring while it is simmering until it thickens. Don't rush. This might take 15- 20 minutes or longer, but it is worth it.

Remove from the heat and serve it in cups or mugs with some ground cinnamon on it.

Optionally, you can garnish it with pistachios or other nuts as well. 

Taste and adjust its sweetness. You can add extra sugar if you like it sweeter.

You can put the leftovers in a bottle or jar and keep it in the refrigerator for 2-3 days. When you crave for salep again, you can re-heat some.

It was my obsession when I was living in Turkey. Thank you for the recipe!

I bought some Salep online looking for a genuine one. What I chose was called Saf  Salep. I followed your instructions but had a disaster! When I added warm milk to the powder and sugar it clumped up and adding it to the hot milk was even worse. The mixture did not slip easily into the milk but fell into clumps and I had to use an electric mixer to try and amalgamate it in the hot milk. I did not notice a pleasant smell while it was cooking and the taste was bland. I had such high hopes for this drink. I  am addicted to turkish movies and it is often drunk by the characters.  What a disappointment! I am pretty adept in the kitchen so this failure is really bugging me.
Where did I go wrong??

I brought some Salep powder back from Istanbul and just tried using it in this recipe! Delicious! I think next time I will use full fat milk because I only had semi-skimmed milk. It still tasted great but maybe didn’t thicken up as much as it should have.

Nestle salep powder is 1% salep, with the rest being other thickening and flavor ingredients.

<p>This recipe gives directions for making the traditional Turkish ice cream dondurma with the help of an ice cream machine. The ice cream needs to be prepared one day in advance, and you can purchase salep and mastic from select delis and spice shops.</p>

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