Halva

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Indian dessert

South Asian sweet

Pişmaniye is a Turkish confection made by blending flour roasted in butter into pulled sugar and then forming it into fine strands. It is sometimes garnished with ground pistachio nuts. Although it is sometimes compared to cotton candy, both the ingredients and method of preparation are significantly different.

Iranian confectionery

Indian type of halvah made by toasting semolina (called suji, sooji, or rawa) in a fat like ghee or oil

Indian Dessert

Azerbaijan dessert

Semolina halva