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What is salep, and why is it in dondurma?
Daniela Chacón
2025-09-26 11:59:03
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Dondurma, which is the Turkish word for “freezing,” refers to the country’s taffy-like ice cream.
Using salep makes dondurma thick and firm enough to cut with a fork and knife, as well as slower to melt.
A pine resin called mastic sap adds both flavor and extra elasticity.
The stretchiness also comes from the labors of dondurma vendors, who beat the ice cream with long metal rods and knead it like dough.
Residents of Maras, a city in southeastern Turkey, have long made dondurma out of ice from the surrounding snowcapped mountains.
Orchid dondurma is an increasingly local treat, as the orchids used for salep have never been commercially cultivated.
Dwindling supply led the Turkish government to ban their export, so dondurma vendors abroad often substitute guar gum or konjac flour, which have a similar, stretchy effect.
Beyond its culinary benefits, chewy ice cream offers the potential for spectacular showmanship.
Using slight of hand and misdirection, vendors make a show of twirling blocks of ice cream with metal rods and using decoy cones to snatch back ice cream as they hand it to customers.
It’s no stretch to say that the shenanigans can make ordering dondurma a lot of fun.
César Tirado
2025-09-26 11:53:41
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Dondurma es simplemente la palabra turca para helado, aunque la similitud es prácticamente allí.
Dondurma es denso, lento para derretirse, y está hecho de una mezcla de leche, resina de mastique y salep.
Mastic es un antiguo evergreen mediterráneo en la familia del pistacho y salep es una harina hecha de tubérculos de orquídeas silvestres turcas del mismo nombre.
Dondurma se hace batiendo los ingredientes en una masa lisa y elástica usando una varilla de metal larga.
Dondurma fresca se coloca en ganchos grandes y es lo suficientemente espesa como para comer con cuchillo y tenedor.
Se come frío, pero no congelado.
A diferencia de otros helados, si se permite congelar, se vuelve roca duro y quebradizo.
Hoy en día, es imposible hacer dondurma fuera de Turquía; la producción en masa ha agotado gravemente el suministro de orquídeas silvestres de Turquía, por lo que hay una prohibición gubernamental de su exportación.
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Héctor Collado
2025-09-26 08:48:04
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Dondurma is the Turkish name for ice cream.
This is made from cream, salep, mastic, and sugar.
The Kahramanmaraş region is known for Maraş dondurması, a variety which contains distinctly more salep than usual.
Tough and sticky, it is sometimes eaten with a knife and fork.
Dondurma is commonly sold from both street vendors' carts and store fronts, where the mixture is churned regularly with long-handled paddles to keep it workable.
Vendors often perform magic tricks and practical jokes, with examples including presenting the ice cream cone on a long stick or pole, and then taking away the dondurma by rotating it around, or serving it with an extra cone that comes away from the actual cone when the stick is lifted.
These tricks serve the additional purpose of attracting prospective customers, as well as entertaining people waiting in line.
As of 2010, the average rate of consumption in Turkey was 2.8 liters of ice cream per person per year.
A distinct variation of dondurma is also consumed in Greece, especially in the north of the country, where it is called "dudurmas" or "kaimaki".
Jorge Ponce
2025-09-26 08:20:19
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Maraş Dondurma’s most distinct features are its chewiness and its ability to stay frozen even after long periods of time.
The main reason for the second attribute is one of its ingredients – salep, which is a kind of flour made from the tubers of wild orchids, grown mostly in South-Eastern Turkey.
However, it’s not these street-side sellers who have the best maraş ice cream.
The best chain store that I’ve found for such a style of ice cream is definitely MADO, which has franchises all over the country.
Besides MADO, maraş dondurma produced by the Atatürk Orman Ciftliği, is also quite delectable.
I would advise however, that you stay away from more mediocre versions of the Maraş style by brands such as Algida.
The wild orchids from which the salep is produced are said to be under a serious threat of extinction.
It’s already forbidden to export these from the country, but ice cream manufacturers still continue to use these orchids.
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