How to cook halva at home

From time immemorial halva has been famous for its beneficial properties and energy value. Experienced housewives by trial and error brought the most delicious cooking technology. Halva can be made from sunflower seeds, walnuts, honey, peanuts. However, like any other business, there are their own characteristics that must be taken into account. Consider the important aspects in order.

Halva from sunflower seeds

• sunflower seeds - 450 gr.
• wheat flour - 300 gr.
• granulated sugar - 80 g.
• drinking water - 160 ml.
• vegetable oil - 75 ml.
• vanilla sugar - 12 g.

1. Peel the sunflower seeds. Prepare a non-stick pan, pour raw materials there, fry without adding vegetable oil.
2. Send the fried raw materials to a meat grinder, coffee grinder or blender, skip the seeds several times to make a fine-grained groats.
3. Wash and dry the pan, heat it, add pre-sifted flour. Fry until golden brown (again, without vegetable oil).
4. Take a pan, pour filtered water, add granulated sugar and vanilla. Put on fire, bring to complete dissolution of crystals.
5. Pour the sunflower oil into the resulting syrup, add the seeds passed through the blender, the fried flour. Stir the mixture thoroughly with a fork or wooden spatula.
6. Prepare a plastic, aluminum, or silicone baking dish. Line it with parchment paper or oil it.
7. Tamp the composition tightly into the mold, pressing layer by layer. Put the future halva in the refrigerator until it finally solidifies (2-3 hours).

Oat halva

• oatmeal - 85 gr.
• honey - 65 gr.
• drinking water - 60 ml.
• vegetable oil - 40 ml.
• sunflower seeds - 210 gr.

1. Prepare a small enameled pan, mix honey and drinking water in it, put on the stove. Stew until the first bubbles appear, but do not boil. Once the honey has melted, the syrup is ready.
2. Wash and dry the non-stick pan. Pour oatmeal, fry until caramel color without oil. You will feel a subtle nutty flavor, it is at this moment that the flour can be removed from the stove.
3. Now pour vegetable oil to it, knead, set the container aside. At this time, fry the sunflower seeds in a frying pan without oil, then pass them through the blender several times.
4. Combine the crushed seeds with flour, send the mass to the pan. Fry for about 5-7 minutes, stirring constantly, then pour in honey-based syrup.
5. Prepare the molds, grease them with oil, put the mass into the cavity. Cover with parchment paper, put a heavy bottle on top, which will serve as a press. Put halva in the refrigerator for 5 hours.

Condensed Milk Halva

• condensed milk - 55 gr.
• sunflower seeds - 165 gr.
• wheat flour - 30 gr.
• granulated sugar - 45 g.
• vegetable oil (unrefined) - 40 ml.

1. Take a thick-bottomed or non-stick pan, heat it on the stove, set a small fire. Pour the seeds, fry them until golden brown. After frying, place the seeds in a blender or meat grinder, scroll several times to the state of finely ground grits.
2. Send granulated sugar to the pan, pour a small amount of water and wait for the crystals to completely dissolve. Sprinkle the fried seeds with the syrup, add flour to add density. Stir until lumps are completely eliminated.
3. Mix the resulting mass with condensed milk and sunflower oil. Wrap the mass in gauze, folded in several layers.Put in a plate and compress with a heavy bottle. Put in the refrigerator until fully hardened (3-4 hours).

Peanut halva

• peanuts (raw or roasted) - 480 gr.
• cane sugar - 240 gr.
• wheat flour - 360 gr.
• drinking water - 80 ml.
• vanilla sugar - 12 g.

1. If you purchased raw peanuts, a preliminary heat treatment is necessary. To do this, put the nuts in a non-stick pan, put on a slow fire and stir for 7 minutes. After that, send the nuts to a blender, meat grinder or coffee grinder, turning the composition into fine grits.
2. Now fry the wheat flour (can be replaced with rye) until golden in a non-stick pan, do not add oil, the dishes should be dry.
3. Mix the granulated sugar, vanillin and water into one mass, pour into a saucepan and simmer over low heat. Do not burn, constantly stir the composition. When the granules dissolve, the syrup can be considered ready.
4. Combine peanut groats, fried flour and syrup in one mixture, pour vegetable oil according to the proportions. Stir until smooth as possible.
5. Prepare a mold from plastic, aluminum or silicone, send halva there. Compress with a heavy bottle, send to the refrigerator for 4 hours.

Chocolate halva

• raw peanuts - 460 gr.
• rye flour - 380 gr.
• vanillin - 10-15 gr.
• dark chocolate - 60 gr.
• sunflower oil - 220 ml.
• granulated sugar - 240 gr.
• filtered water - 100 ml.

1. Sauté peanuts in a pan without infusion of vegetable oil. When the fruits turn brown, turn off the burner. Grind the peanuts into dust using a blender or meat grinder. Now fry rye flour in a dry frying pan, it should acquire a caramel color.
2. Mix flour with peanuts, pour vanilla. Melt the chocolate in a separate bowl, then pour the vegetable oil into it, knead until a homogeneous consistency.
3. Cook beetroot syrup and water. When the granules dissolve, pour the resulting mixture into melted chocolate and nuts with flour. Pack the mass in the molds, put in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

Walnut Halva

• peeled walnut kernels - 165 gr.
• butter (fat content 72%) - 120 gr.
• beet sugar - 210 gr.
• milk (fat content from 3.2) - 410 ml.
• corn starch - 15 gr.

1. Make an enamelled pan. Pour milk into the container, add sugar, bring the mass to a boil. As soon as the first bubbles appear, turn down the power, cook the composition for another 10 minutes.
2. Pour the corn starch into the pre-chilled syrup slowly, stirring at the same time so that no lumps form. Put it on the fire again, simmer for 10 minutes.
3. Cut the butter into cubes, melt in a non-stick pan. Chop walnuts into small pieces, fry in butter until dark brown.
4. After that, move the nuts into a thick-walled pan, fill with milk syrup, cork. Turn the burner on low heat, cook the mixture for 25 minutes. Serve the finished product hot.

A truly oriental product has gained wide popularity, the recipe for this delicacy has spread all over the world. Make halva from peanuts, sunflower seeds, honey, oatmeal, walnuts, or chocolate. Serve the product cold or hot.

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