HELADO DE TURRÓN

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This is the summer version of the typical Christmas desert: turrón, which has been eaten in Spain since the sixteenth century. Its origin comes from the arabic domination, when Spain was known as Al-Andalus.

Turrón is made of almonds ( the main ingredient ), sugar, honey and egg white ( albumen ). Nowadays, for Christmas there are many varieties such chocolate, yolk, coconut…but the original one is made from almond. Its shape is rectangular, like a tablet 2 o 3 cm thick.

There are two almond types of “turrón”, the hard version and the soft one. The hard is called Alacant/Alicante and the soft is called Xixona/Jijona. The last one is very oily.

The quality depends on the amount of almonds used. Real Alacant version must be at least the 60% almond. Xixona must be 64% to be considered real Xixona.