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Halwa Bahraini

Name: Halwa Bahraini
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 10
Cuisine: Bahrain
Ingredients: 100g Cornstarch; 300g Sugar; 800ml Water; 100g Butter; A pinch Saffron; 1 tsp Cardamom powder; 2 tbsp Rose water; 30g Almonds; 20g Pistachios

Dessert

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 10

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Cornstarch, sugar, and ghee stirred with saffron and rose water — Bahrain's traditional sweet.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Halwa Bahraini is Bahrain's signature traditional sweet: cornstarch, sugar, ghee (clarified butter), saffron, cardamom, and rose water are stirred for hours in a big pot and scattered with nuts. It has a chewy, translucent texture, and Bahrain's halwa shops bustle with customers from home and abroad. It's served with Arabic coffee.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a long-established halwa shop in Bahrain, amber sweet is stirred with a long wooden paddle in a big copper pot as a sweet aroma drifts outside.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 10)

Cornstarch 100g
Sugar 300g
Water 800ml
Butter 100g
Saffron A pinch
Cardamom powder 1 tsp
Rose water 2 tbsp
Almonds 30g
Pistachios 20g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the saffron in a little hot water to release its color.
Dissolve the cornstarch in 400ml water.
Caramelize the sugar lightly in a pot, then add the remaining water to dissolve.
Add the cornstarch mixture and stir on low for 40 minutes, adding the butter a little at a time.
Mix in the saffron, cardamom, rose water, and nuts, pour into dishes, and let cool.

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