Zaharni Zavodi Pomegranate Lokum, Bulgarian Turkish Delight 170g (6oz)

Zaharni Zavodi Pomegranate Lokum is Turkish delight in the pomegranate flavour from Bulgaria's oldest confectionery producer — a gel-based sweet made from sugar, starch, and pomegranate flavouring, dusted with icing sugar, in the format that Ottoman confectionery culture established as the canonical sugar confection of the Middle East and Balkans and that Bulgaria's sweet factories have produced since the late 19th century. Zaharni Zavodi is Bulgaria's largest and oldest confectionery company, based in Gorna Oryahovitsa, tracing its production history through the Bulgarian confectionery industry that developed under both Ottoman and post-Ottoman manufacturing traditions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Lokum — Turkish delight — is present across the entire former-Ottoman culinary sphere: from Turkey and Bulgaria through Greece, Serbia, Bosnia, and Macedonia, the chewy, sweet, starch-set confection is the standard companion to Turkish coffee and tea, the confection served to guests in small pieces on a plate, and the sweet that the diaspora household keeps in the tin for the moment company arrives. Serve in a small plate beside Turkish coffee or tea as the traditional guest confection, include in a Balkan sweet assortment at the holiday table, or eat as the fruit-flavoured lokum that is softer, lighter, and less intensely sweet than the nut-filled varieties.