Halva (Persian halva)

tahini

🥗Healthier: sunflower seed butter

💰Cheaper: peanut butter

Sunflower seed butter is nut-free and offers a similar texture.

sugar

🥗Healthier: honey

💰Cheaper: brown sugar

Honey adds natural sweetness with a unique flavor.

chopped nuts

🥗Healthier: pumpkin seeds

💰Cheaper: sunflower seeds

Pumpkin seeds provide crunch and nutrition.

cocoa powder

🥗Healthier: carob powder

💰Cheaper: unsweetened chocolate

Carob powder offers a caffeine-free chocolate alternative.

Soak the zafran (saffron) in boiling water for 30 minutes.

Pour 3/4 cup sugar in a pot.

Add 1 cup boiling water, the cardamom, and the rose water to the pot, and stir.

Bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat and let it simmer for 10 minutes.

Pour 3 cups flour in a large pot and heat the pot over low heat, keeping stirring the flour until it becomes darker.

Sift the heated flour in a colander and pour it back into the pot.

Add the butter, stir, and then add 1 cup oil and mix thoroughly.

Heat the mixture over low heat, keeping stirring until the mixture changes its color to light brown or brown (as preferred).

Pour the zafran in a small cup and cocoa powder and ginger powder in separate cups.

Add the (sugar, rose water, cardamom) mixture to each cup and mix thoroughly.

Divide the flour mixture into 3 separate bowls and apply each flavor mixture from the previous step to each bowl and mix until the mixture looks like a soft dough.

Spread and stack the doughs on top of each other.

Cut it in any shape you would like.

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