Desserts

Sugar Syrup

Name: Sugar Syrup
Total time: 6 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Israeli
Ingredients: 1 cup sugar; 1 cup water; 1 tbsp lemon juice

Sugar and water cooked into a syrup, with lemon and sometimes rose water or honey: what basbousa, baklava and zalabia are soaked in.

⏱ 6 min

1
Bring the sugar and water to a boil. Turn down the heat and simmer 5 minutes, until the sugar melts and the syrup thickens slightly.
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💡A gentle simmer, not a boil: a hard boil dries the food out and clouds it, a slow simmer cooks it evenly.
2
Add the lemon juice.
💡The lemon keeps the sugar from crystallizing again.

194calories

0 gprotein

50 gcarbs

0 gfat

● protein 0%● carbs 100%● fat 0%

Per serving (114 g), of 4 servings

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Sugar: measured in cup in this recipe: 1 cup = 200 g · 387 kcal per 100 g · More about Sugar →
Water: measured in cup in this recipe: 1 cup = 240 g · 0 kcal per 100 g · More about Water →
Lemon juice: measured in tbsp in this recipe: 1 tbsp = 15 g · 21 kcal per 100 g · More about Lemon juice →

Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)

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Possible additions: Sugar · Water · Honey · Lemon juice · Rose water · Orange blossom water · Fruit (fruit sauce) · Alcohol · Cinnamon · Anise · Date syrup · Vanilla · Cardamom · Extra cooking after the additions (minutes) (5) · Stored in a bottle in the fridge (up to) (2 weeks) · Water to dilute (drink) · Ice for serving · Orange juice · Cinnamon stick cooked in the syrup
Amount of syrup per glass (drink): 3–4 tbsp