Ingredients
Squeeze the orange
And strain the juice.
Pour the orange juice, sugar, corn starch and orange zest in a pot. Whisk until sugar and starch dissolved. in this step you can also add nuts to the juice.
Now put the pot on the heat. Simmer and gently stir the mixture until the batter turns into a thick smooth paste. (it will take about 10 minutes to reach to a soft consistency). and for a hard consistency, it will take 25-30 minutes).Remove from the heat.
Wet inside the cup with plain water and pour in the batter.
Or grease or wet again the plate and pour in candy batter.
Let lokum set up in room temperature until firm to cut and handle it.
Cut it with a sharp knife into squares, round, lozengen.
Generously dust the lukme with shreded coconut, or powdered sugar and corn starch.
