Alana and sucuq — Ordubad's signature sweets
An apricot with its stone removed and filled, walnuts threaded on a string and dipped in syrup — two ancient recipes, two signature flavours.
Alana is one of Ordubad's oldest sweets. The stone is removed from a dried apricot and replaced with crushed walnut kernels, sugar and sometimes cardamom; then the apricot is closed up again. Neither shakarbura nor qakh — a flavour somewhere in between. In Ordubad, alana is a key delicacy of the wedding tray and the Novruz table.
Sucuq — walnut kernels are threaded on a string, then dipped again and again in thickened grape or mulberry juice (doshab) and dried. Each layer takes a day; a good sucuq has 8–10 layers, and when cut, the walnuts show inside. It was food for the caravan road — it keeps for months without spoiling, and a single slice is filling.
These two are Ordubad Bazar's "signature products" — flavours you won't find anywhere else, made by hand only in our workshop. They feature in the Çillə, Mücrü and Şahnişin chests.
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