Semolina dessert with matcha tea!

Matcha tea is here to give taste and color during Lent! Fasting has already begun and, so that we do not miss the sweet pleasures, we serve spectacular fancy sweets!

From grandma\'s kitchen always it was on the table a traditional home-made dessert like our favorite Greek halva or else semolina dessert. Today, we propose a halva in an alternative choice, a little bit more different in honor of matcha tea however with high nutritional value of matcha that will surprise us!

Go ahead, then! Let\'s prepare a quick and tasty halva in the version of matcha that will become the fasting favorite sweet and not only…

Materials

• ½ cup of maize or sunflower oil
• 1 cup of semolina (thick) and 1 cup of semolina (thin)
• 2 tsp. matcha tea
• 3 cups of sugar
• 4 cups of water
• 2 large oranges or 3 small ones
• 200 g nuts whipped in multi
• 100 g chocolate couverture (dark chocolate)

Implementation

1. In a saucepan boil the oranges for 40΄. Rinse the oranges with cold water and wait for them to cool completely, cut large chunks, remove any pits and whisk them with the peel at the multi.
2. Prepare a saucepan on low heat and pour the sunflower oil or corn oil and the semolina and mix for 5΄.
3. Add the water, sugar and orange puree and stir continuously with a wooden spatula for about 10΄ until smooth. Once the mixture curdled, pour the nuts and stir.
4. Once a homogeneous mixture is made, remove the saucepan from the heat, and split the mixture in half by pouring half of it into another bowl.
5. Stir the remaining half mixture in the pot with matcha tea and mix until it turns green.
6. In a cake mold, pour the green mixture and gently smooth the surface with a spoon.
7. Add the pure mixture over the top and gently smooth the surface again.
8. Allow to cool for about 1 hour at room temperature.
9. Unload on a platter.
10. Serve halva with cinnamon stick.

Tips!

You can replace sugar with maple or agave syrup.

You can skip the orange puree.

Good luck!