Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, tar halva. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Tar Halva is a very traditional Persian dessert made with rice flour, ground cardamom and butter. It is sweetened with a light saffron syrup that is mildly scented with rosewater. Tar Halva translates to "moist halva," which is a different version of the regular Halva; it is made with rice flour and has a softer and moister consistency. Tar Halva is a traditional dessert from Iran's southern city of Shiraz, cooked mainly in the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Tar halva is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Tar halva is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have tar halva using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Tar halva:
- Prepare For making syrup
- Make ready 1 cup sugar
- Get 1 cup water
- Get 1 tsp saffron
- Get And I have used orange food colour to give more dark colour look
- Get 2 tbsp rose water
- Prepare For making tar halva base
- Take 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- Prepare 1 tsp ground cardamom
- Prepare 1 cup rice flour
- Prepare as needed Almonds and pistachios for garnishing
Pour the contents into a plate and press down and then give it a design. Note: One other main difference is that you will fry the rice flour for Tar Halva a bit less than you do the flour used for Halva. Tar-Halwa is a dessert made in Shiraz for breaking the fast during Ramadan. My memoirs, Wedding Song and Leaving Iran, chronicle my life and those of my family members in Iran.
Steps to make Tar halva:
- On a medium flame mix sugar and water and keep on stirring till the sugar gets dissolves don't boil the water I have kept saffron in lukewarm water and and mix this saffron water to the sugar syrup and add rose water also keep in side the water to come to lukewarm please don't boil the water fully.
- Next take a pan and stir rice flour with a wooden spoon always use nonstick pan for making this dessert, stir till it becomes aromat it should not change the colour so keep on medium flame for 7 to 8 minutes, next add butter and and continuously stir it with the flour until it doesn't look like a paste.
- The syrup has come down to lukewarm to check take a small ball of flour and dip in if it sizzle the paste is hot enough to mix the syrup add food colour of saffron colour for more dark orange look and mix the syrup and stir it continuously till it gets mixed well with the flour and start leaving the pan for about 5 minutes.
- Next when it is done take out in a bowl and let it come to cool on a room temperature and take a serving bowl and add the halva to it and tap with the back of spoon to make a smooth top and make any design with the spoon it's the speciality of this dessert that this is always been serve with giving a beautiful designs.
- Next garnish with almonds and pistachios to give that beautiful look which looks amazing and taste very delicious.
Tar-Halwa is a dessert made in Shiraz for breaking the fast during Ramadan. My memoirs, Wedding Song and Leaving Iran, chronicle my life and those of my family members in Iran. Food is an integral part of these stories.. Tar Halva is a very traditional Persian dessert made with rice flour, ground cardamom and butter. It is sweetened with a light saffron syrup that is mildly scented with rosewater.
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