Easy Cheese Halva

Ingredients

• 2 cups water
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 cup semolina flour
• 600 g unsalted mozzarella cheese
• orange blossom water
• This distinctive recipe for homemade cheese halva comes from a friend of Shoutabkhin Today:
• Nicole Moweod
• For more Nicole recipes, visit her page by clicking her name on our site.
• To get the easy homemade cream, click this link: How to Make Homemade Cream or Qamar
• To get an easy recipe for homemade orange blossom jam, click this link: Lemon blossom jam

Method

1. Bring sugar and water to boil for about 2 minutes, then add the finely ground semolina and stir well…
   Timers: 2 min
2. Add the cheese and stir until the dough comes together into a single mass… Add the orange blossom water and stir for two minutes
3. Separately, prepare the syrup (shira) on kitchen wrap and let it come to room temperature…
4. Roll with a little syrup on your hand and roll the dough between two sheets of plastic wrap also sprinkled with syrup. Roll out with a rolling pin so the dough sits between the two sheets…
5. Spread cream on the dough, roll into a log and cut as desired, then garnish with pistachios and lemon blossom jam.