A quick-cooking dessert topped with spiced dried fruit and nuts for both texture and flavor.
Fried dried fruit and nuts seasoned with spices adds texture and flavor.
Halva is usually served on special occasions and during holidays like Diwali, Holi, and Ramadan, and while it’s technically a dessert, I used to eat it for breakfast as a kid. My recommendation is you should eat it as I do, which is whenever I want something sweet. The recipe I’ve provided below is for semolina halva, which might just be the quickest halva to make. Semolina is amade from a type of hard wheat called durum. In India, semolina goes by the names sooji or rava and it’s ground a bit more coarsely, with particles that are slightly larger than the semolina sold in American stores . You can use either kind, but a halva made with American semolina will be much smoother in texture than one made with Indian semolina.