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.
