Halwa Recipes - Indian Festival Foods Recipes

Halva is made with vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, grains

Halwa is also spelt as halva(so you will find both the spellings on this page). Halva is sweet as well as savory.

Out of many other Indian sweets, Halva is a very versatile Indian sweet made with a variety of ingredients.

Though halva is mostly sweet, Upma is also refered to as Namkeen halva in hindi.

For sweet halvas, Sugar or brown sugar, jaggery, dry fruits, milk or condensed milk or coconut milk, honey is added as a sweetener.

For flavor, cardamoms, essences such as rose, kewra are added. Spices and herbs such as ginger, cinnamon are also added to some halvas.

Whatever you use as the ingredients, halva is tasty and irresistible.

Halva is made with:(note:Indian names are in bracket)

Vegetables - carrot-halwa(gajar-ka-halwa), bottle gourd-halwa (doodi-halwa, dumroat), beetroot halva.

Fruits - banana halva, dry fruits halva , mango halva.

Nuts and seeds - almonds(badam-halwa) , sesame seeds, dates(khajoor-halwa), cashew nuts(kaju halva)

Grains - grain products - Semolina(rava-sooji-halwa / Sheera / kesari / sajjige / sanja), corn flour, wheat flour(atte-ka-halwa), Finger millet halva(ragi halva)

Lentils or Lentil flour - besan-halwa, dal-halwa, moong dal-halwa

Halva Recipes For You

Beetroot Halva - Beetroot and milk sweet.

Sheera - Sooji ka Halva - Cream of wheat - Semolina sweet.

Carrot halwa- Beetroot and milk sweet.

Vegetable Upma - Namkeen halwa

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