Tulumba
Ridged fingers of fried choux-style dough, soaked in sugar syrup, eaten in Turkey, Egypt, the Balkans and the Middle East.
- Chocolate, sugar and confectionery
- Egypt
Also called: tulumba tatlısı
Tulumba is made from a cooked dough of water, butter or oil and flour, with eggs beaten in, similar to choux pastry. It is piped through a large star tip into short ridged lengths and fried in oil that starts warm, so the pieces puff slowly and become crisp. They are then soaked in cool lemon-scented syrup.
The result is crunchy outside and syrupy inside, a little like a churro soaked in syrup. In Egypt and the Levant, a similar sweet is called balah el sham.
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Written by VanillaGoods in our own words from these sources. Last reviewed October 15, 2026.
- Hot-Water Dough, Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets (Darra Goldstein), via Cookbookdigital reference