İrmik Helvası

Turkish semolina halva toasted in butter with pine nuts, then steamed with sweetened milk.

Photo: Kemal Can · Pexels License

Ingredients

• 250 g semolina
• 100 g butter
• 40 g pine nuts
• 500 ml milk
• Cinnamon, to dust (optional)
• 200 g sugar
• 100 ml water

How to make İrmik Helvası

1. Heat the milk, water and sugar until dissolved.
2. Toast the semolina and pine nuts in the butter, stirring, until golden.
3. Pour in the hot milk carefully, stir, then cover and leave off the heat to swell.
4. Dust with cinnamon.