Here is the recipe of Halva
Ingredients:( for 2)
Wheat flour...................................... 7 Tablespoons
Butter........................................... Half cup(you can add more)
Sugar.........................................7Tablespoons
Saffron.................................1Teaspoon(again it depends on the color you want)
Rosewater................................ quarter cup( around 70cc)
Water............................................1 cup(250cc)
Cocoa powder................................... 1Tablespoons
First, we sieve the wheat flour (twice is better), then put it in a pan on a burner ( I am not sure about the name of this!) for at least 10 minutes when we could smell the difference in the smell of flour and also we could see that the color is slightly changing to cream instead of white, it means the flour is ready, this part is really important because it prevents the flour to smell like being raw.
if we want to have a dark brown color halva then we stay a bit longer in this part to change the color of the flour completely to cream or light brown.
the next step is to add the butter ( if Kermanshahi oil is available even better), then we take the pan from the burner to a side to add butter and at the same time we mix it really fast and hard, if you see it is not homogeneous don't worry you can mix it finally! just try your best, then after around 2 minute of mixing put it back on the burner and continue mixing on the burner because the heat helps the butter to melt more and you won't have those little flour not mixed to the other parts.
it takes around 10more minutes ( for this amount of flour) to stay on the burner and you must continue riling ( again I am not sure what is the right verb)
then take the pan over and divide the flour and butter into 2 equal parts.
for one part we add the cocoa to have dark brown halva and for the other we add saffron to have yellow color halva but how? like this:
mix the cocoa powder with half of sugar and half of water, boil it to have something like a heavy liquid, you need around 5 spoonful of this for the half of flour.
now mix saffron with the other half of sugar and water and rosewater also boil it to reduce water, you need 5 spoonful of this.
now that you have mixed cocoa and saffron to the flour you have 2 different color halva.
the important part is to make them stick together, for this you could use a plastic put one color inside a plastic and smooth it then put it on a smooth surface, redo for the other color and put it on top of the previous one, you can cut the edge to make it a good shape or by a mold you can make beautiful shapes.
Enjoy!
(awfully difficult writing recipe in English !)
Ingredients:( for 2)
Wheat flour...................................... 7 Tablespoons
Butter........................................... Half cup(you can add more)
Sugar.........................................7Tablespoons
Saffron.................................1Teaspoon(again it depends on the color you want)
Rosewater................................ quarter cup( around 70cc)
Water............................................1 cup(250cc)
Cocoa powder................................... 1Tablespoons
First, we sieve the wheat flour (twice is better), then put it in a pan on a burner ( I am not sure about the name of this!) for at least 10 minutes when we could smell the difference in the smell of flour and also we could see that the color is slightly changing to cream instead of white, it means the flour is ready, this part is really important because it prevents the flour to smell like being raw.
if we want to have a dark brown color halva then we stay a bit longer in this part to change the color of the flour completely to cream or light brown.
the next step is to add the butter ( if Kermanshahi oil is available even better), then we take the pan from the burner to a side to add butter and at the same time we mix it really fast and hard, if you see it is not homogeneous don't worry you can mix it finally! just try your best, then after around 2 minute of mixing put it back on the burner and continue mixing on the burner because the heat helps the butter to melt more and you won't have those little flour not mixed to the other parts.
it takes around 10more minutes ( for this amount of flour) to stay on the burner and you must continue riling ( again I am not sure what is the right verb)
then take the pan over and divide the flour and butter into 2 equal parts.
for one part we add the cocoa to have dark brown halva and for the other we add saffron to have yellow color halva but how? like this:
mix the cocoa powder with half of sugar and half of water, boil it to have something like a heavy liquid, you need around 5 spoonful of this for the half of flour.
now mix saffron with the other half of sugar and water and rosewater also boil it to reduce water, you need 5 spoonful of this.
now that you have mixed cocoa and saffron to the flour you have 2 different color halva.
the important part is to make them stick together, for this you could use a plastic put one color inside a plastic and smooth it then put it on a smooth surface, redo for the other color and put it on top of the previous one, you can cut the edge to make it a good shape or by a mold you can make beautiful shapes.
Enjoy!
(awfully difficult writing recipe in English !)
