Spoon sweets, are one of the Mediterranean’s
healthiest sweets - as have no fat - served the traditional way, offered to guests served by the teaspoon in a small porcelain or crystal dish with cold water as a
gesture of hospitality!
Made with simple, natural ingredients that transform them into something entirely new, exciting, and delicious. The fruit remain firm and sit in a nice pool of syrup thick enough to coat a spoon.
They are also an excellent match, Greek yogurt,
The following recipe
for grape spoon sweet is a specialty of Crete ...
But whether or not you’ve been to Crete , you
can appreciate the rich taste of grape spoon sweets by making them for yourself
at your kitchen.
NEEDED:
1000g grapes (sultana
kind)
1000g sugar
1 cup water (enough
to cover grapes and sugar)
2 springs of “amberosa”
(aromatic plant) called rose geranium or if you cannot find this plant vanilla
1/2 a lemon juice
DIRECTIONS
Separate the grapes,
remove the stems, wash and drain them
Place the grapes in a
pot, the sugar and water
Boil till the syrup
binds.
Deep the amberosa
leafs or the vanillas stick for 10 minutes in the boiling grapes
Few minutes before is
done add the lemon juice (lemon juice is for not allow the sweet be sugared
later)
As soon as is done,
store the desert into clean glass jars and seal tight. Keep jars at a cool place or in the fridge
store the desert into clean glass jars and seal tight. Keep jars at a cool place or in the fridge
VEGAN: Grape Spoon Sweet, called Stafyli Glyko
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήCrete is known for the grape spoon sweets and the raisins!