"Fresh Pistachios | I'm Peanuts
There is no one who does not know Gaziantep pistachio. After the delicious peanuts are roasted with salt, it comes to your snack plates. The fresh form of pistachio is just as delicious and indispensable as its roasted form.
What Are Fresh Ben Peanuts?
It is the fresh and unprocessed form of pistachios collected from the tree.
Fresh Pistachio Season/Period
From the end of August to the end of September, pistachio is harvested around Gaziantep within a 1-month period. While most of it is roasted and taken to warehouses for consumption throughout the year, some of it is offered for sale on daily counters. In Gaziantep, peddlers sell fresh pistachios & ben pistachios at the grocery store, market, nut shop or in a wheelbarrow."
Turkish delight or Lokum 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; the cheapest are mostly gel, generally flavored with rosewater, mastic, or lemon. The confection is often packaged and eaten in small cubes dusted with icing sugar, copra, or powdered cream of Tartar, to prevent clinging. Other common types include such flavors as cinnamon and mint. In the production process, soapwort may be used as an emulsifying additive.