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Halvoitar

Name: Halvoitar
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Tajikistan
Ingredients: 100g All-purpose flour; 60g Butter; 80g Sugar; 300ml Milk; A pinch Cardamom powder; 20g Walnuts

Dessert

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Flour toasted in butter and stirred with sugar and milk — a warm Tajik sweet.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Halvoitar means 'warm halva,' a traditional Tajik sweet: flour is toasted in oil or butter until golden, then milk or water with dissolved sugar is stirred in. It's made to celebrate a birth, for religious occasions, and on cold mornings, and eaten with tea.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On the morning of celebrating a newborn in a Tajik home, a warm sweet stirred until toasty in a pot is shared with the neighbors.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

All-purpose flour 100g
Butter 60g
Sugar 80g
Milk 300ml
Cardamom powder A pinch
Walnuts 20g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Melt the butter in a pot, add the flour, and toast on low for 10 minutes, stirring, until golden.
Warm the milk and sugar in another pot to dissolve.
Add the milk little by little to the toasted flour, stirring to avoid lumps.
Stir for 5 minutes until thick and paste-like, then add the cardamom.
Spoon into bowls, scatter with chopped walnuts, and eat warm.

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