Exempel på halva

• It is also used as a cooking sauce for meat and fish and in sweet desserts like halva parfait.

• Two different types of tahini halva are made one using sunflower seed tahini and another using sesame seed tahini.

• In some traditional homes, sweetmeats of yellowish hues, such as kesar halva are offered to relatives and friends.

• Vegetables and greens are prepared with different spices (masala) into a variety of strongly flavored dishes such mango brinzal curry, gongura pachadi and halva.

• Floss halva can be found in regular and pistachio flavors, and there are brands with halal or kosher certifications.

• At this point, the halva is off-white to light beige, and rather soft.

• It is similar to halva, made by boiling hot water and continuously mixing and stirring corn flour and other grains like buckwheat.

• The halva is spread thin on a plate till it dries into a paste.

• Halva can be kept at room temperature with little risk of spoilage.

• Carrot halwa (called "gaajar ka halwa") is also popular, as is halva made from tender bottle gourds and "chanay ki daal".

• The halva is very sweet, with a gelatinous texture similar to polenta; the added butter gives it a rich mouthfeel.

• Traditionally, halva prepared with flour ("un helvas") is cooked and served upon the death of a person.

• A raw version of halva also has become popular amongst proponents of raw food diets.

• They are also the main ingredients in tahini (sesame seed paste) and the sweet called "halva".

• The result is a halva with a light consistency, similar to cotton candy.