"Turkish Delight" Jelly Candies seen in London Borough Market I found these candies in the never exhausted mine of good food that is Borough Market in London. You can find a large number of videos of street food of Borough Market on my video channel www.youtube.com/settime2588 . Turkish delight , lokum or rahat lokum and many other transliterations [3] ( Ottoman Turkish : رَاحَة الْحُلْقُوم rāḥat al-ḥulqūm , Turkish : Lokum or rahat lokum , from colloquial Arabic : راحة الحلقوم rāḥat al-ḥalqūm, Azerbaijani: / l ɑː t i ɡ u m / is a family of confections based on a gel of starch and sugar . Premium varieties consist largely of chopped dates, pistachios, and hazelnuts or walnuts bound by the gel; traditional varieties are often flavored with rosewater , mastic , Bergamot orange , or lemon . The confection is often pa...