Semolina Sweet

Halva means “sweet” in Turkish, and you will find many different sweets by that name in Greece. Grocer’s halva is a commercial confection with the main ingredient tahini (sesame seed paste); it is traditionally eaten on Lenten days. Halva from Farsala (a town in Thessaly) is a kind of cake made with lots of butter and semolina and flooded with heavy syrup. This third kind of halva, which is also called Halvas Simigdalenios or Halvas Politikos (from