The sweet trademark of Komotini
A specialty of Komotini, soutzouk loukoum is a long sausage-shaped sweet made by stringing walnuts on a thread and dipping them in thickened grape must; it is then dried and dusted with a coating of powdered sugar like a soutzouki sausage. You can get it in many flavors and aromas, for example, rose, clove, and cinnamon.
Soutzouk loukoum first appeared in the harems of the sultans; in Greece, the art of preparing this sweet has arrived from Constantinople in the first decades of the 19th century.
The famous soutzouk loukoum of Komotini is now part of the cultural heritage of the city.
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