Dondurma (stretchy Turkish Ice Cream) also Bastani (Persian variety). A little goes a long way. For example the following recipe for Bastani calls for 1 teaspoon of Salep to make 8 servings of ice cream (yum!).
This is the real thing, from Greece.
INGREDIENTS
- 500 ml full cream milk
- 250 ml whipping cream
- 3/4 cup caster (fine grain) sugar
- 1 teaspoon rose water
- 1 teaspoon salep
- 1/4 teaspoon saffron
INSTRUCTIONS
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Place all the ingredients except the salep in a blender and blend until the sugar is dissolved.
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Add the salep and blend until the mixture is thick.
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Pour into a deep container that is suitable to freeze and place in the freezer for about 4-6 hours until the mixture is partly frozen.
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Put the mixture back into the blender and blend for a couple of minutes until all the frozen ice-cream is mixed with the liquid.
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Put into a storage container and freeze until hard.