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Kabak tatlısı (Turkish for "pumpkin dessert"), is a pumpkin dessert in Turkish cuisine.It is made by cooking peeled and cut pumpkin in a syrup made out of water, cinnamon, cardamom, vanilla and bay leaves, essentially candying it.

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Kabak tatlısı (Turkish for "pumpkin dessert"), is a pumpkin dessert in Turkish cuisine.It is made by cooking peeled and cut pumpkin in a syrup made out of water, cinnamon, cardamom, vanilla and bay leaves, essentially candying it. Milk can also be used. The dish is topped with chopped walnuts, tahini or kaymak. It is a winter-time seasonal dessert. The texture has been described as resembling taffy. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Kabak tatlısı”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

pumpkin dessert is dessert from the Turkish cuisine, made with pumpkins., according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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