Spanish Food In West Yorkshire - Where Can You Buy Spanish Nougat?

Have you tried turron durro, the popular Spanish specialty candy? If not, then what a treat you have in store! Turron comes in various forms, but in my opinion, hands down the most delicious is turron durro. “Durro” means hard, and turron durro is a hard nougat filled with almonds and coated with rice paper. It has a mild, milky, moreish flavour and is not overly sweet – a blessing for those of us easily nauseated by sticky, sugary sweet stuff. It is absolutely packed with delicious toasted almonds and comes in a solid block, either round or rectangular, which you can break with a rolling pin to form bite-size chunks. But be warned! Once you’ve tasted turron, you’ve bitten into the apple in the garden of Eden: there’s no going back! (And no leaving the rest in the jar for another day, either. That’s just not going to happen!)

Sweet Spanish Treats: Is Spanish Nougat Good For You?

How is turron durro for nutritional content? Well, it has a high ratio of almonds to nougat, providing it with a lot of heart-healthy monounsaturated fat. Hey, it’s practically health-food!

Where Can You Buy Turron Durro?

But where can you locate some delicious Spanish turron durro in order to sample it for yourself? Ah. Be warned, this is sometimes easier said than done, and easier attempted than achieved. In my experience, when you are fortunate enough to stumble across a box of this delicacy in some deli or grocery shop, then you swiftly become addicted and shortly return to feed your addiction. But alas, restocking and resourcing further supplies of turron often seems to be beyond the capacities of most retail outlets!

Spanish Food & Goodies: Bricks 'n' Mortar Stores Stocking Turron Durro

The only truly reliable bricks and mortar source for turron I know of in West Yorkshire in the UK, is Harvey Nichols in the centre of Leeds. Unfortunately for Harvey Nick’s customers who are also lovers of fine foods, the brand sold at this emporium is of an inferior quality (in my opinion as a lover of turron durro) and also hugely expensive considering its tiny size.

You can occasionally locate and liberate a few boxes of almond filled delight ( also known as turron durro) at TK Maxx, and Wakefield used to have a little deli on Bond Street that would occasionally stock it. (And when I say occasionally, I mean very, very occasionally, i.e. once in a blue moon. I would pop in on a regular basis enquiring about their next delivery of almond delight. The answer, on a perpetual basis, was always, ‘Next week! Definitely next week!’ Manana, manana!)

Eat Spanish: Buy Turron Durro Online

So if you can’t locate turron durro in a bricks and mortar store, can you buy it online? Of course you can! What can’t you buy online these days? Just input the search terms ‘turron durro’ into a search engine and see the results you get. As always, if you’re planning on going crazy with your credit card online, then check out a site carefully beforehand. But believe me: if you can’t find yourself some heavenly almond delight in any other way, then it’s totally worth the trouble to purchase yourself a taste of Spain online!