Dondurma is a traditional Turkish 'chewy' ice cream which includes the ingredients are goat milk, sugar, salep and mastic, and often refered as Maras ice cream, because people believed that this ice cream originate from region Maras. Dondurma known for its delicious taste and stretchiness. Salep dondurma is an ice cream made with flour from ground tubers of wild Turkish orchid. Salep flour contains a hydrocolloid that produced a stretchy, chewy ice cream. To make this ice cream has to be worked long and hard, almost the way you would to make gluten develop in a bread dough.
Dondurma has a sticky chewy consistency that doesn't melt easily, that's a perfect combination to encourage magic tricks. If you buy dondurma at a vendor with dressed in Turkish costume, beating his stainless stell tubs with a metre long ice cream scoop, the magical tricks begin.
When the ice cream arrives in your hand, then it disappear leaving you holding an empty cone or wrapper. In the next few minutes it will be twisted, turned and twirled in front of both you and the growing crowd. Just relax and enjoy, and when you least expect it, the ice cream will be yours to keep. That's interesting magical attraction of the seller dondurma (dondurma man) which make dondurma popular in a whole world.
Dondurma, a magical Turkish ice cream
