Looking for Rosewater recipies.?

Question

My wife and I purchased some rosewater on a whim. Now we're looking for Food/ Drink recipies that use it as an ingredient. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

BAKLAVA

1 pkg. 12x17 inch Filo Pastry Dough
1 1/2 lbs. finely ground walnuts
1 c. sugar and 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 lb. butter, melted

Mix walnuts and sugar. Take 4 sheets filo dough, lay out flat and brush on butter over entire top layer (try not to get the salt of the butter which has settled). Place a row of nut mixture across one end of filo sheets (long way) and roll up tightly into log.
Place on cookie sheet (greased), and baste with butter immediately. Repeat until you have about 7 logs done, which should all fit on one cookie sheet. Cut each log in 1 inch diagonal pieces 3/4's of the way through.

Bake 1 hour at 350 degrees. Baste generously with butter 3 times during cooking.


GLAZE:

2 c. sugar
1 c. water
1 tbsp. rosewater
1 tbsp. lemon juice

Bring sugar and water to a boil. Let simmer 10 minutes and add rosewater and lemon juice.
When cookies are done, remove from oven and pour glaze mixture (must be boiling) over entire cookies and let soak in. Keep uncovered for 12 hours.

Lassi - Sweet #2
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Ingredients:
1 scoop Ice
2 scoops Yoghurt
1 splash Lemon juice
8 handfuls Sugar
3 pinches Salt
1 dash Rosewater
Mixing instructions:
Mix them all together in a blender. The measurements are not precise because you oughtta just throw everything in to taste. This is mainly here to help out those, like myself, who tried making the Sweet Lassi with the other Sweet Lassi recipe, and found out that it was pretty bad - watery, not sweet, et cetera. Ice is the key.


Wild Thing #2
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Ingredients:
Juice of 1 Lemon
Juice of 1 Lime
Juice of 1 Orange
1-1/2 oz Vodka or rum or tequila
1 splash Rosewater
4 tblsp Sugar
Lots Ice
Mixing instructions:
Place all ingredients in blender, blend until slushy. Adjust amount of ice to achieve proper consistency. Rim of glass can be salted if desired.

Answer 2

Rosewater has a very distinctive flavour and is used heavily in South Asian, West Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine—especially in sweets. For example, rosewater gives loukoumia and gulab jamuns their distinctive flavour. In Iran it is also added to tea, ice cream, cookies and other sweets in small quantities. It is also used for religious purposes in Hinduism and Islam.

It is also a key ingredient in Sweet Lassi, a drink made from yogurt, sugar and various fruit juices.

In the Western world, rosewater is better known as an ingredient in cosmetics than as a food flavouring, though it is used in some marzipan and is sometimes used to flavour the shell-shaped French cookie called a madeleine. The official Rose Water Ointment, NF formulation was develped by Galen.

In Malaysia and Singapore, rosewater is mixed with milk, sugar and pink food colouring to make a sweet drink called bandung.

Rosewater is also used with Zamzam water in cleaning the Kaaba, a shrine located in Mecca. It is the the holiest place in Islam.

Rosewater is also used to make Jallab.

Answer 3

Great whim...now go look up 'Turkish Delight' [a confection] which is the only recipe I know of that uses rosewater...! Some recipes have been posted in here, but you might Google the name anyway. Got pistachios? I've seen the confection also called "loukhoum" [spellings vary].

Answer 4

Here's one:

3 cups fresh rose petals (make sure there are NO pesticides used on rosebushes)
1 liter mineral water

Put 3 large handfuls of petals into the clean pot.
Pour the water over the rose petals.
Cover the pot.
Place it over low heat and let it simmer until half the water is left.
Let it cool.
Discard the petals and pour the liquid (rosewater) into the sterile bottle.
Cap tightly and store in fridge.

Answer 5

Well I just peeked in Recipe Zarr.com and there were 10 ranging from cookies to martinis (http://www.recipezaar.com/recipes.php?q=rosewater) and I know it is used in many Turkish recipes and I have a friend who uses it to marinade turkey for really unique grilled legs. It is a very distinctive taste you could follow a few on line recipes then venture out on your own to see what else you like. Good Luck!