File:Black_Halwa,_Kerala.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
halva
Sign in to saveAlso known as halwa, halvah, halawa, haleweh, halava, halvaa, helava, xalwa
I don't have any context provided to write from. Could you please share the context about halva that you'd like me to base the overview on?
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Key facts
- Food.served
- Cold
- Food.name
- Halva
- Food.image
- File:Orient sweets (special halva) Samarkand, Siyab.jpg
- Food.place_of_origin
- Iran (Persia)
- Food.region
- Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Balkans, South Caucasus, North Africa, Horn of Africa
- Food.type
- Confectionery, dessert
via Wikipedia infobox
~12 min read
Encyclopedic overview
27 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Types
- Grain-based halva
- Sesame
- Sunflower
- Peanuts
- Carrots
- Other
- Floss halva
- Cultural and national variations
- Albania
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Greece
- Italy
- India
- Iran
- Israel
- Myanmar (Burma)
- [[Palestine]]
- Syria
- Turkey
- United States
- Somalia
- See also
- References
Halva (also halvah, halwa, halua; ) is a type of confectionery that is spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa, East Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans, Central Asia, and South Asia. The name refers to a broad variety of recipes, generally a thick paste made from flour, butter, oil, saffron, rosewater, milk, turmeric powder, and sugar.
==Etymology==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “halva” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (26)
Available in 85 languages
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- 中文
- 日本語
- Русский
- Português
- Italiano
- العربية
- हिन्दी
- Albanian
- Armenian
- azb
- Azerbaijani
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Bangla
- Basque
- bat_smg
Show 66 more
- be_x_old
- Belarusian
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Burmese
- Catalan
- Central Kurdish
- Chuvash
- Croatian
- Czech
- Egyptian Arabic
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Finnish
- Georgian
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hausa
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Javanese
- Kannada
- Kashmiri
- Kurdish
- Kyrgyz
- Latin
- Latvian
- lbe
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Maithili
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Mazanderani
- Mingrelian
- Nederlands
- Nepali
- Polski
- Punjabi
- Romanian
- Serbian
- Serbian (Latin)
- simple
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Somali
- Svenska
- Tajik
- Tamil
- Tatar
- Telugu
- Türkçe
- Tuvinian
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Uyghur
- Uzbek
- Welsh
- Western Panjabi
- Wu Chinese
- Zaza
- zh_yue
- فارسی
- ไทย
- 한국어
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0