This article is about a traditional Iranian sweet that is from Gilan, which is a green and beautiful Iran province. People are making this Halva for the Nowruz celebration, it is easy to cook this northern sweet with rice flour and you can prepare a delicious dessert for your parties by spending a little time.
In the north of Iran, many people grow rice as a result, you can find the best quality of rice flour. This traditional sweet is prepared with a combination of Iranian original ingredients like saffron and rice flour.
Ingredients:
. 1 cup rice flour
. 1 cup water
. 1 teaspoon cardamom powder
. Half a cup of butter
. 1 cup sugar
. Half a cup of Golab
. 1 teaspoon saffron
. Pistachio powder for garnish
In the first step, put a pan on the flame and pour the rice flour into it, roasting flour is the important key to making Halva don’t leave the flour on the flame, while the flour is on flame stir it regularly and quickly. Stirring the flour frequently will prevent the flour from burning or changing its color.
In the second step, put the butter on the steam until it melts completely, add the butter to the pan and stir the butter with rice flour to mix them. The next step is making the syrup of Halva. In the other pan, pour sugar and water turn the flame, and let it boil, To ensure that sugar is properly mixed with water, it is important to completely dissolve it in the liquid. Now, add brewed saffron (you can find the recipe for brewing saffron in the saffron article), cardamom powder, and Golab (that is a traditional extract) to the sugar pan and now the Halva syrup is ready.
Third, add the syrup to the mixture of rice flour and butter. At this stage, you have to quickly stir the sweet so that it gets in good shape. Your Halva is ready and you can garnish that with pistachio powder.
