How to Make Homemade Cheese Halawa

Ingredients

• 2 cups water
• 1 cup fine semolina
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 cups mozzarella cheese
• or
• Mozzarella with sweetened Czech curds
• Sugar syrup or rosewater syrup for stretching and serving
• The wonderful homemade cheese halawa recipe from a friend of Shou Tabkhin today:
• Israa Salem Al-Samak
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• Homemade Qeshta (Cream) Recipe

Method

1. Put the water in a pot over the heat with the sugar and stir until it dissolves well.
2. After boiling, add the semolina and stir quickly, then leave it over low heat to cook, stirring continuously.
3. Add the cheese and continue stirring until it melts, pulling it upward while stirring until you get a homogeneous dough.
4. Roll the halawet el jibn with a rolling pin on clingfilm or a piece of marble greased with syrup.
5. When the halawa cools, fill it and cut it as desired.
6. Garnish the halawet el jibn with pistachios and serve it cold with syrup (shira).
7. Esraa Salem Al‑Samak
8. Method for preparing homemade qaimar cream.