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Helva - Halwa - Turkish Recipe for Flour helva

Ayse Gul made this recipe a few days back at Nurhan’s house. I tried it today, and its just great!!! Its delicious, its easy, its yumm yumm. And oh yeah, did I say easy.

It reminded me of the halwa that someone used to make for me whenever I had the whim.

Ingredients:

1 stick butter, 1 tbsp oil
1 coffee size cup all purpose flour (’maida’)
1 coffee size cup sugar,
1 coffee size cup water
Method:

First boil the butter together with oil in a non-stick pan preferably. In the mean time, dilute the sugar in the water and keep it ready. When the butter starts melting and almost boiling, add the flour to this. And on medium high flame, constantly keep roasting the flour. Dont leave this even for a minute, or it will burn.

Now roast until you get a good smell, and the color is almost beige, like golden brown. At this point, very carefully add the sugar syrup to this, and mix really fast.

*Be extremely cautious while doing this, as the whole thing starts to form big bubbles.

Thats it, quickly mix the whole thing, until all the syrup gets absorbed.

Ta - da! Its done, and ready to eat. Serve warm-hot, and sprinkle nuts like almonds, walnuts, or raisins.

I made it today for some friends, and its great!

July 15th, 2007