Cheese Halva with Halabi Pistachios

Cheese halva with Halabi pistachios in an easy, home-tested recipe. This recipe lets you choose between incorporating the Halabi pistachios into the dough or sprinkling them on as you roll.

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1½ cups water1 cup sugar¼ cup Halabi pistachios, ground1 cup 'farikha' flour or fine semolina½ kg shredded mozzarella cheeseorange blossom watersugar syrup (qatr or shireh)At this stage add a little orange blossom water. Pour the mixture, or the dough-like mixture that has formed, while hot onto a piece of plastic wrap brushed with syrup and cover it with a second piece of plastic wrap also brushed with syrupYou can pour the syrup (qatr/shireh) over the cheese halva after removing it from the refrigerator or at serving time, according to preference.To prepare the syrup we need: 1 cup sugar and ½ cup water with 1 teaspoon lemon juice and 1 tablespoon orange blossom water...

Step 1

Bring the sugar and water to the boil, and just before it reaches boiling, add the ground Halabi pistachios and 1 cup of fine semolina (or semolina flour) while continuing to stir until you obtain a smooth mixture....