How to Make Award-winning Homemade Semolina Dessert (Greek Halvas)

Homemade Semolina Dessert (Greek Halvas)
Homemade Semolina Dessert (Greek Halvas)

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, homemade semolina dessert (greek halvas). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Homemade Semolina Dessert (Greek Halvas) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Homemade Semolina Dessert (Greek Halvas) is something that I have loved my entire life.

Halva Recipe - Greek Halvas - Semolina Pudding With Raisins and Nuts. Halva is a semolina pudding that is sweetened with syrup and studded with nuts and raisins. It is a dessert that has Arabic origins but has been adopted into the Greek culture and is widely.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook homemade semolina dessert (greek halvas) using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Semolina Dessert (Greek Halvas):
  1. Take 2 cups Semolina
  2. Get 2 cup Sugar
  3. Take 1 Cinnamon Stick
  4. Make ready 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
  5. Get 1 Lemon Peel
  6. Make ready 1 cup Olive Oil
  7. Get 3 cups Water

Greek semolina halva is one of the most delicious egg and dairy-free desserts of the Mediterranean cuisine. It is basically a semolina pudding usually enhanced with nuts and dried fruits, soaked in hot syrup and delightfully spiced with cinnamon. Halvas is a very well known dessert in Greece. The Greeks prepare it especially for the period of Lent, but not only.

Steps to make Homemade Semolina Dessert (Greek Halvas):
  1. To make this dessert you will need 2 sauce pots. In one add in the lemon peel and the cinnamon stick.
  2. In the other add the Olive Oil.
  3. Add water and teaspoon of cinnamon powder, sugar and boil at low heat.
  4. Add gradually the Semolina into the pot where the Olive Oil is heating at low heat. Stir continuously with a wooden spoon until Semolina has turned golden brown. Very carefully start and very slowly start to pour the syrup into the Semolina. This tends to splatter when you pour the syrup into the Semolina so be careful.
  5. I like to use a bundt form but you can use whatever you like. In a baking pan add 1 tablespoon of Cinnamon powder and 1 tablespoon of Sugar. Transfer the mixture in the baking pan and let it cool.
  6. Turn over on a platter or a dish and top it off with more Cinnamon. πŸ™‚ - - Kali Orexei!!! πŸ™‚

It is really easy to prepare it ! There are three types of halva in Greece: the semolina based, the tahini based and the halvas of Farsala. Add semolina and stir until golden in colour. This may take a few minutes. Add the spices, nuts, dried fruit and sugar.

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