Halvas with semolina

HALVAS WITH SEMOLINA

Ingredients

2.5 cups semolina coarse

2 cups sugar

1 cup blanched almonds

1 cup corn oil

4 cups water

1 scant tablespoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon crushed cloves

Instructions

Count all the ingredients with the same cup.

In a medium pot put the water and the sugar.

Place the pot over medium heat.

Wait for the water to warm up. Just before boiling remove the pot from the heat.

Pour into the pot the crushed cloves and the cinnamon and stir with a spoon.

Put in another pot the corn oil and chafe it over low heat.

Pour the semolina into the corn oil and stir. Let it cook until its color to whiten a bit.

Add the almonds into the semolina and stir. Cook the almonds for two min.

Pour the hot water with the sugar into the semolina and stir.

Stir constantly until the semolina to absorb almost all the water and to soften.

Empty the halva into a ring mold or in any other cake form you like.

Press down the halva with a spoon to take the shape of the form.

Let it cool down completely.

Put over the mold a round platter and turn the halva upside down in the platter.

Sprinkle the top of upturned halva with cinnamon.