sahlep

At the more traditional cafe inside Alimuhiddin Haci Bekir on Istiklal Caddesi, finding the sahlep is a bit of a challenge.

NYT > Home Page By SUSANNE FOWLER 2012

And it's not a nog, but there's the thick, creamy Middle Eastern beverage sahlep aka salep or sahlab, which is made with milk and powdered orchid root.

CNN.com 2010

Hundreds of single-locality endemic plants occur in Turkey, most of them threatened, including many orchids, which are illegally collected in large quantities for the production of a popular traditional drink called sahlep.

Biological diversity in the Irano-Anatolian 2008

The ice cream is made with all milk no cream and is able to stay creamy when frozen because of the thickening powers of sahlep, it even takes on a remarkable stretchy quality and and you'll see vendors kneading and stretching the ice cream at famous ice cream parlors like Bekdache in Damascus or dondurma vendors in Turkey.

Archive 2007-08-01 Mercedes 2007

The ice cream is made with all milk no cream and is able to stay creamy when frozen because of the thickening powers of sahlep, it even takes on a remarkable stretchy quality and and you'll see vendors kneading and stretching the ice cream at famous ice cream parlors like Bekdache in Damascus or dondurma vendors in Turkey.

Day 10: Orange Blossom Ice Cream Mercedes 2007

Aha, I thought, cornstarch must have been the local answer to sahlep thickener.

Day 10: Orange Blossom Ice Cream Mercedes 2007

Finding sahlep proved to be very difficult most of what's offered in stores are sahlep drink mixes, and I had qualms about working on a recipe most people wouldn't have access to.

Day 10: Orange Blossom Ice Cream Mercedes 2007

Finding sahlep proved to be very difficult most of what's offered in stores are sahlep drink mixes, and I had qualms about working on a recipe most people wouldn't have access to.

Archive 2007-08-01 Mercedes 2007

First, the ice cream is made with mastic and sahlep, two ingredients that can be very hard to find.

Day 10: Orange Blossom Ice Cream Mercedes 2007

If you want to try your hand at ice cream with mastic and sahlep, I highly recommend this Booza al-Haleeb, as well as this Rosewater-Mastic recipe.

Day 10: Orange Blossom Ice Cream Mercedes 2007