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Homemade Halva with Nuts
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Homemade Halva with Nuts

Homemade sesame halva with nuts – authentic Middle Eastern sweetness with no preservatives

⏱ 35 min🍽 8 servings 🌍 Middle Eastern👩‍🍳 Afoona
🥩 Meat🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Bring the sugar and water to a boil and cook the syrup to 115°C (240°F) on a candy thermometer.
    Small saucepanStoveCandy/oil thermometer
  2. 2
    Meanwhile, warm the tahini Over low heat in a separate pot.
    Small saucepanStove
  3. 3
    Pour the hot syrup over the tahini and mix quickly with a fork.
    Fork
  4. 4
    Add the vanilla, cinnamon and salt and mix until the mixture starts to stiffen.
  5. 5
    Add the almonds and pistachios and mix.
  6. 6
    Transfer the mixture to a greased pan and level it.
    Baking pan
  7. 7
    Leave at room temperature 2 hours, until the halva sets, and slice into squares.
    Knife
    💡Halva keeps in the fridge up to two weeks.
571calories
16 gprotein
28 gcarbs
43 gfat
● protein 12%● carbs 20%● fat 69%

Per serving (107 g), of 8 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (5) · 🍳 2 cooking vessels

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Small saucepan · Also works: Pot (None) · Frying pan (A deep pan for sauces)
  • Baking pan · Also works: Glass / ovenproof baking dish (None) · Disposable pan (None)
  • Knife · Also works: Food processor (Fast, less control over size) · Kitchen shears (For herbs/dough)
  • Candy/oil thermometer · Also works: Wooden spoon (Oil: bubbles around a wooden spoon) · Bowl (Sugar: a drop in cold water (soft/hard ball))

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🧩 Built from…

Halva

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