Every year a month of Muharram, festive tables in Turkey are decorated with Ashura – a dessert that is considered one of the most ancient in the world.
Ashura is not just a treat. He personifies abundance, prosperity and good neighborliness. It includes dozens of ingredients: cereals, legumes, dried fruits, nuts and spices.
, according to the tradition, Ashura, also known as noev pudding, is prepared in large quantities and with prayers, and then treats neighbors, relatives and friends. Thus, the dish becomes not only a symbol of abundance, but also with a gesture of goodwill and community.
A combination of cereals and legumes – such as wheat, beans and chickpeas – with fruits and sugar makes Ashura with a special treat, giving taste to the festive tables for millennia.
Cooked at home, Ashura strengthens good neighborly ties, and welded in large boilers becomes a symbol of public unity and solidarity.
Most often, the dessert is prepared a month of Muharram, but a strict recipe does not exist – the composition of the dish can vary depending on the region and family traditions.
– the key moment in the preparation of Ashura – its color
Chairman of the Association of Star Chew and Conventors, Chanackale Osman Demirji shared the secrets of preparing this traditional dessert while brewing Ashura in large boilers for distribution of 5,000 people at the Dumlupinar mosque.
Demirji noted that the main ingredients of Ashura are wheat, chickpeas, beans, figs, grapes, dried apricots, walnuts, pistachios, mesh and sugar, and pink water is an indispensable element of the recipe, which is necessarily added.
He emphasized that when preparing Ashura, the most important point is the color of the dessert. “We want Ashura to be white. There are subtleties for this,” Demirji said.
Demirji noted that Ashura is rich vitamins and nutrients with a dish and gave recommendations to those who want to prepare this dessert. “The figs and grapes need to be boiled a day before cooking so that they do not darken. The wheat should be soaked in advance. Kuraga cannot be used without preliminary boiling. In the dried apricots, grapes, figs and a moshesh, it is already worth adding sugar,” he said.
Imam of the mosque Dumlupinar Ahmet Unal emphasized that this dessert carries the Epistle of Brotherhood and Unity.
“Ashura is a tradition that was born in times of difficulties when everyone contributed, saying:” I have this, “he explained.