Milk nougat. Homemade nougat: how to cook? Dark nougat with nuts

Turron is a sweetness, firstly, Italian, and secondly, Christmas. There is also a third thing: the dessert with the beautiful name “torrono” is nothing more than just nougat. Delicious, beloved nougat from childhood, which we will prepare at home, just on the eve of Catholic Christmas.
To the uninitiated it may seem that nougat at home is impossible. But that's not true. The technology is simple and clear, as you will see right now.

Cooking time: 40 minutes.
Hardening time: 5-7 hours.

Ingredients

To make homemade nougat you will need:

honey 1.5 cups
sugar 350 g
vanilla sugar 1 sachet
egg whites 2 pcs.
juice of 1/4 lemon (or zest)
almonds 100 g
peanuts 100 g
walnuts 100 g
sea salt pinch
water 3 tbsp. l.
butter 2 tbsp. l.

Preparation

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To prepare this dessert you will need a nut. As a rule, almonds are used, but other nuts can be added.
Place the nuts in a deep frying pan and lightly brown over low heat. Instead of a frying pan, you can use the oven - lightly bake the nuts for 15 minutes at 170 degrees.

Pour honey into a ladle, add water and melt until bubbles form (to a boil).

This process will not take much time, but you should constantly stir the honey with a spatula.

After 5 minutes, add vanilla and regular sugar to the honey.

Cook the sweet mixture over low heat until the sugar is completely dissolved. This will take you about 10 minutes.

Simultaneously with this process, beat the whites with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks form.

Carefully, slowly, begin to pour the finished caramel in a thin stream into the egg whites, whisking the mixture with a mixer.

You will begin to get a soft plastic mass.

Pour all the nuts into it (pre-crush into medium-sized pieces). Add lemon juice (or zest) to it.

Stir the mixture with a spatula.

Line a suitable baking sheet with parchment or foil (I tried foil and can say that the nougat sticks to it a little), grease with oil.

Pour the nougat into the mold, then place in a cool room for several hours.

Cut the finished nougat into cubes, serve as a sweet for tea, and store in the refrigerator.

Here you go. Is homemade nougat difficult? No! This is a simple and very tasty thing.

A delicious dessert that is liked by many gourmets and not only them is known as nougat. This dish originated from the Middle East back in the 15th century. The delicacy has become an integral attribute of Christmas in European countries.

There are a lot of recipes by which you can prepare nougat naturally at home. Every housewife can easily prepare nougat.

Traditional recipe

To prepare nougat, it is enough to have the following products on hand at home:

sugar – 300 g;
water – 50 ml;
almonds – 300 g;
egg whites – 2 pcs.;
liquid honey – 5 tbsp. spoon;
vanilla sugar – 1 package;
lemon juice – 1 teaspoon;
waffle cakes – 6 pcs.

The cooking process to get real nougat consists of the following steps. The almonds must be soaked for ten minutes in boiling water, then peeled off, carefully placed in an even layer on a baking sheet and roasted in the oven. Next, turn off the oven and leave the nuts there for a while to keep them warm. In the meantime, add water to the sugar and then put it on low heat. When it boils, add more honey.

Important: in the process of preparing nougat, the most important thing is to strictly maintain the required temperature regime.

If the sweetness does not warm up much, the nougat may not harden, although the taste will be excellent. The sweet syrup should be brought to 140 degrees - for this you should use a thermometer in the kitchen to control the temperature. If this is not observed, you can trust your intuition - you need to catch the moment at which the syrup begins to thicken, but does not yet have time to become caramel. To prevent this, you need to add as much heat as possible, then cook, stirring constantly.

Immediately after preparing the syrup, begin beating the whites. During this process, add vanilla sugar and lemon juice without stopping the beating. Then pour in the syrup in a thin stream. When prepared correctly, the mass will increase in volume and become viscous and thick. Next, add more nuts to the mixture; if desired, you can also add dried fruits. Mix everything thoroughly with a spoon.

Place the third part of the nougat on the waffle cake in an even layer and cover with the second cake. Do this twice. Press down with something and place in the refrigerator overnight. In the morning, take it out of the cold and cut it into portions using a damp and warm knife. It is advisable to store nougat in the refrigerator.

Dark nougat with nuts

You can make nougat with chocolate and hazelnuts. To do this you will need the following ingredients:

hazelnuts – 300 g;
milk chocolate – 300 g;
powdered sugar – 300 g.

The preparation steps are as follows. You need to fry the nuts a little in a dry frying pan, let them cool, and then grind them. Powdered sugar needs to be dissolved over low heat, mixed with hazelnuts and the resulting mass placed on parchment. After hardening, grind everything in a blender - this is about 15 minutes, until it becomes viscous. Next, pour in the melted chocolate and then whisk. Place the resulting sweetness on parchment, where it is carefully leveled. After cooling, you can cut it into pieces with a hot knife.

Simple recipe

The simplest recipe is considered to be the following. It consists of the following components:

glass of sugar
150 g light honey
half a glass of water.

Cook all the listed ingredients after bringing to a boil for about 10 minutes over high heat. At the same time, beat a couple of egg whites until fluffy, then gradually pour into the hot syrup. Be sure to stir, you can add nuts there, although it will turn out delicious without them.

Important: place the finished mixture on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, cover with more parchment on top and leave to cool. After the frozen nougat is cut into pieces with a wet knife, sprinkle with powdered sugar.

White nougat

Cooking white nougat will be interesting for many housewives. You will need:

1/2 glass of water;
2 chicken egg whites;
2 tablespoons of honey or molasses;
a glass of sugar;
4 tablespoons of milk powder or cream.

Mix water with honey and sugar in a non-stick pan, cook the mixture until sticky. If you can already make “strings” from the composition, then the process is completed. Separately, beat the whites until thick and very slowly and carefully pour the white foam into the cooked mixture in a thin stream. Beat everything well and slowly add the milk powder. At this point, we can say that the white nougat is ready.

All that remains is to place the product on pastry paper and leave to cool. Next, cut into pieces - the dish is ready.

Place peanuts on a plate and spread into an even layer. Place in the microwave for 3 minutes, then remove the husks. After this, we begin to prepare the syrup by mixing honey, water and sugar. Set the resulting mixture to simmer over low heat, and as soon as it boils, continue cooking for another 10-14 minutes and turn off. I want to emphasize that, in principle, you can take any nuts. Grinding them or leaving them whole is a matter of taste.

Begin beating the egg whites with a mixer until foam forms. As soon as it appears, pour in lemon juice and add vanillin. After this, once the syrup is ready, we begin to add it. Pour in the syrup gradually, in a thin stream. As a result, you will get a thick mass that will need to be beaten for about 15 minutes.

And just now we add the prepared peanuts to our mixture. Mix the whole mass using a regular spoon. The mixture will be very thick, so extra effort will be required. Pour it in a small layer into any convenient form and put it in the freezer overnight. The nougat is ready, you can cut it into pieces. Bon appetit!

Today we will prepare such a tasty and nutritious dish as homemade nougat. There is no need to overpay when you can easily achieve the coveted standard with your own hands.

This is a confectionery product; according to tradition, it is prepared from honey and sugar and various nuts. Nuts are an essential product in nougat.

Nougat has been loved in Europe since the 15th century and is still an attribute of all Christmas holidays. And nougat came to Europe from the Middle East.

How to make nougat with your own hands?

We won't need much.

Products:

250 g whole almonds,
white of 1 egg,
60 g sugar,
citric acid 1/4 tsp,
a thin glass of honey,
0.3 kg sugar, 1/4 cup water,
vanilla extract 1 tsp,
unsalted butter 60 g.

On the one hand, it may seem that nougat is very difficult to cook. However, once you start preparing nougat at home, you will see that there is absolutely nothing complicated, you just need to remember a couple of basic points.

Nougat often contains nuts. You can use any nuts in our sweets that you can find. For us, these are almonds and need to be toasted first. Unroasted nuts will have a certain softness, which will negatively affect the quality of the product. Roasted nuts release their aroma very intensely under the influence of temperature.

Place on a sheet or frying pan and fry until golden brown, 10 minutes. Honey should never be candied or old. Pour the honey into a ladle and bring almost to a boil. Honey helps the nougat to be completely soft and prevents the sugar from crystallizing. Plus, honey is also known to be very aromatic.

In addition, another important point - Let's cook sugar syrup. When cooking syrup, you need to take into account that before the syrup begins to boil, the sugar must be completely dissolved. Stir the sweet solution and heat it.

To prevent sugar crystals from forming along the walls of the vessel, experienced confectioners take an ordinary kitchen brush, dip it in water and brush it along the walls of the pan, as if collecting sugar.

Also, to prevent the sugar from crystallizing, add a little lemon juice to the syrup.

As soon as the syrup boils, stop stirring and do not disturb it anymore. Let the syrup heat up up to a temperature of 148 degrees, this is the soft caramel stage. It looks a lot like that, doesn't it?

A special caramel thermometer is used to control the temperature. If you plan to cook nougat or caramel in the future, then such a device is a must.

Meanwhile, separate the yolk and white, add sugar, citric acid, vanilla extract to the white and beat. Then combine hot honey and sugar syrup. Continuing to beat the whites, slowly pour in the caramel(a mixture of honey and sugar). The caramel is very hot, beat for 5-7 minutes until it becomes fluffy. Next add butter.

You can replace the butter with any chocolate (dark, white), just take a little more than the volume of butter.

Mix. The nougat mixture is ready. Pour the prepared roasted nuts into it. You can chop the nuts coarsely, but they look great in nougat whole. Mix and transfer to a form to harden. Any shape will do, which one you like and which one you have on hand. Let cool for about an hour. Then we put the form with nougat in the refrigerator to completely harden, cut it into portions.

Our yummy is ready! Bon appetit!

Nougat is a sweet nutty dessert that belongs to Turkish cuisine. There are many nougat recipes: you can use honey, cocoa and other ingredients.

Nougat recipe always includes nuts

Ingredients

Vegetable oil 1 tbsp. Water 50 milliliters Nuts 300 grams Sugar 400 grams Egg white 2 pieces) Honey 130 grams

Number of servings: 5
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 2 minutes

Homemade nougat recipe

When preparing nougat, it is important to strictly adhere to all proportions so that it turns out. If everything is done correctly, the homemade version of this delicacy will be tastier and more natural than the store-bought version.

To prepare the dessert, use thick candied honey.

Place water, honey and sugar in a saucepan and place it on high heat for 10 minutes. It is best to use a kitchen thermometer. The syrup temperature should reach 170°C.
Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form. Do not turn off the mixer. Start pouring hot honey syrup into the whites in a thin stream. The mass will thicken quickly.
Turn off the mixer, add nuts, stir.
Grease the mold with vegetable oil. Place the workpiece into it and level it. Refrigerate for 2 hours.
Remove the dough from the mold and cut into portioned squares with a sharp knife.

You can use any nuts, for example, regular peanuts. But the tastiest dessert will be made from a nut mix - almonds, peanuts, hazelnuts, walnuts, etc.

Homemade chocolate nougat recipe

If you prefer everything chocolate, try this recipe. For it you need:

600 g sugar;
320 g invert syrup;
2 squirrels;
100 g crushed nuts;
60 g cocoa;
30 g flour;
1.5 tbsp. water.

Cooking method:

Mix sugar with water and boil. Add invert syrup to it and simmer for 10-15 minutes. Do a caramel test. To do this, drop a drop of the mixture onto a plate. The drop should harden but remain soft.
Beat the whites until stiff peaks form. Pour 2/3 of the hot syrup into them. You need to add the syrup little by little and constantly beat the mixture with a mixer. The mixture should become fluffy and white.
Cool the remaining syrup to 80°C. Pour it into the mixture and beat it for another 15 minutes.
Lastly, add the nuts and sifted cocoa powder.
Sprinkle the table with flour and transfer the workpiece onto it. When it has cooled, roll it out into a layer about 1.5 cm thick. Let it stand for 3-4 hours and cut into squares or rectangles.

The nougat will be quite soft and can be easily chewed.

Nougat does not have to be an independent delicacy. It can become part of another dessert. For example, nougat can be used as a layer for a cake. It's delicious and unusual.