Desserts
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.
Total time45 min
Prep25 min
Cook20 min
Yield4 servings
DifficultyEasy
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Recipe tags
DessertsInternationalVegetarianEgg free
Ingredients
- 1½ cups water
- 1 cup sugar
- ¼ cup Halabi pistachios, ground
- 1 cup 'farikha' flour or fine semolina
- ½ kg shredded mozzarella cheese
- orange blossom water
- sugar 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 syrup
- You 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...
Method
- 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....
- Add the shredded mozzarella cheese on top of the mixture, continuing to stir until the ingredients come together and the cheese melts.
- At this stage, add a little orange blossom water. Pour the mixture, or the dough-like mass formed, onto a sheet of plastic wrap brushed with syrup and cover with a second sheet of plastic wrap also brushed with syrup. Roll out the dough between the two syrup-brushed sheets until it is thin to taste. Fill it lengthwise with any available cream and roll the dough into a log..
- Chill the cheese halva in the fridge before serving. Depending on preference, instead of mixing the Halabi pistachios with the filling you can sprinkle Halabi pistachios after pouring the cheese mixture onto the plastic wrap while it is hot; you can then sprinkle the Halabi pistachios before rolling out with the rolling pin.
- The syrup can be poured over the cheese halva after removing it from the fridge or at serving, as desired.
- To prepare the syrup you need: 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup water with 1 teaspoon lemon juice and 1 tablespoon orange blossom water...
