Turkish Flour Halwa (Un Helvası) Pudding Recipe

Turkish Wheat Flour Halwa/Pudding

         Wheat Flour Halwa (Un Helvası)/Pudding Recipe

         Anatolian Cuisine has many traditional foods. One of them is halva pudding. Halwa puddings are very famous and traditional. They have cooked in Anatolian Cuisine for over centuries. There are different types of halwa in Anatolian Cuisine; such as tahini halwa, semolina halwa and wheat flour halwa. We always get "tahini halva" from markets and groceries. I dont think so, anyone make "tahini halva" at home. But, Semolina and Wheat Flour Halva are always home made pudding (Turkish Desserts) for the funeral or religious days. In our childhood times, especialy in religious days, our moms cooked wheat flour halva (Un Helvası) and send a halva plate with us to our neighbours. We delivered plate, plate of halva puddings door to door.  

Wheat Flour Halwa (Un Helvası)

         What is Wheat Flour Halva (Un Helvası)

         Turkish Wheat Flour Halva (Un Helvası), a thick, sweet pudding that, toasted flour and browned butter (or vegetable oil), and serve as both warm and cold, is special days (Funeral or religious days) and everyday dish in Anatolian (Turkey).

         How to Make Wheat Flour Halva (Un Helvası)/Pudding 

        Turkish Flour Helva (Un Helvası) is super easy to prepare and goes well with coffee and tea. Also, we recommend that, try it warm with a scoop of ice cream. Result is wonderful. Plus, this Turkish sweet pudding (dessert) is very budget friendly and is made using very simple ingredients that most of us have in their refrigerators and pantries. Shortly,They are; all purpose flour, granulated sugar, oil or butter and water. That's it. But, when you cook it at home, you should more pay attention, because it requires arm strenght. Turkish wheat flour helva realy needs to be stirred very very constantly. More you stir constantly halva mixture, more you get a perfect halva. You like our  Tres-leches-cake-3-milk-cake-dessert .

         You like our traditional,  historical and religious  Recipe-of-Ashura-Noah's-pudding  also, we are sure that you like Story of Ashure-Noah's-pudding and muharrem-month .

             

             You like our syrup (sherbet) base desserts' Recipes:  

       Cocoa-brownie-cookies , Turkish-style-semolina-cake-in-syrup ,  Turkish-semolina-cookies-in-syrup ,  Turkish-home-made-baklava ,  Newspaper-baklava ,  Rose-baklava

        Here it is our very yummy and budget friendly Wheat Flour Halwa (Un Helvası)/Pudding Recipe;

         Serve: 4-6 servings, Preparation Time: 10 minutes, Cooking Time: 30-40 minutes, Dish Type: Vegan Dessert (Pudding), Cuisibe: Mediterranean/ Anatolian Cuisine,

Making Turkish Flour Halwa

     

Making Wheat Flour Halwa

   Ingredients:

         - 1 Cup Granulated sugar,  

        - 2 Cups water, (if you want, you can use 2 Cups milk or one cup milk, one cup water, it is optional),

        - 1 or 2 Tablespoons butter,

        - 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil, 

        - 1 Cup all purpose flour,

        - 1 Tablespoon Lemon juice, (it is optional),

        - A good handful of crushed walnuts or hazelnuts or pine nuts, (it is optional),

Making un Helvası 

     

Turkish Wheat Flour Halwa Pudding Recipe

        Preparation:

        First of all, we should make a syrup (sherbet) for the dessert (pudding). Put your whole sugar and 3-4 Cups water (120-130ml) in a small saucepan. Then, place the saucepan over the heat. Heat must be low. And then, stir water and sugar mixture until the sugar dissolved. Bring to the boil, still stirring, and remove any white froth with the wooden spoon if that forms on the surface of saucepan. Add the lemon juice and continue to cook and stirring, for more 3-5 minutes. Set aside to cool. Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat. Then add your all purpose flour, little by little, and keep stirring (Dont forget to stir constantly because stirring process is really very important).  Stirring until you have a roux with your flour and the taste of flour has been cooked out (it takes nearly 10 minutes). Then, add the nuts (walnut, Hazelnut or pine nut), continue to stir for more two or three extra minutes, then carefully add the syrup (watch out for spatter). Please dont stop, change your arm but dont stop, stir constantly. If you dont want flour balls in your halva, stir constantly, until the whole your syrup is soaked. Now, it will get harder to stir but you should keep stirring, dont stop.Then cover and continue cooking over very low heat for 5-7 minutes. Spread the still - hot pudding on a plate, and cut the helva into diamonds or small squares. If you want, you can make your own shape by your hands or with two spoons give flour halva some sort of spoon - shape. Serve warm or cold.

         Please let us know how this "Turkish Flour Halva (Un Helvası)" turns out for you in the comments. We are always so eager to hear from you.

      

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