Armenian Sharots(Sujukh)

 

It is almost impossible to imagine an Armenian New Year's table without dried fruits or special seasonal sweets. This traditional Armenian sweets Sharots is one of those dried snacks served on festive days.

Ingredients needed are quite simple as well as the making of it.

Ingrediens:

2 lbs of walnut halves, threaded on a strong thread ( refer to You Tube video for tutorai)

1,89L Grape juice, or any juice you like 

350gramm molasses(grape, rulberry or any kind)

 1 2/3  cups all purpose flour 

1/2 cup of cornstarch

1-11/2 cups of suger (taste it while cooking and add more to your preference)

1tsp ground cinnamon (or 4 sticks)

It's important to prepare the place you will be hanging the sharoc to dry
Start by threading walnuts, set aside
Pour the juice in a heavy bottom saucepan and bring it toa simmer in large mixing dowl combine flour and corn starch 
Add half of the hot juice over the flour-starch mixture and stir with a spoon 
As soon as the mixture turns thick and smooth mixture transfer to the saucepan with the remaning juice, stir and place over the medium heat 
Add molasses, suger and spices
Cook by stirring constantly untill the mixture thickens, about 10-15minutes
Dip one row of the threaded walnuts to test, if it comes out thick, dip the rest if not, then cook a bit more and test again until the right consistency reached
Hang sharots to dry at room temperature 5-7 days
Enjoy!!!