Recipe Directions
At minimum, you need some kind of a seed grinder. I like manual primitive tools. I swear they make the food taste better. But if you must, you can use your coffee grinder or blender to grind. We are grinding two separate batches. We’ll start with the brighter color; this way, we don’t need to wash in the middle because the darker batch takes over.
1. Grind, as fine as you can, the white sesame seeds with the golden flax. Add the optional pinch of salt and vanilla.
2. By hand (if your dates are juicy enough), or in manual mincer or food processor, mush and knead enough dates to make it all stick together into a smooth consistency. (For myself, I use minimum amount of dates, but I go large on the dates for pop drinking guests so they’ll be more than polite.)
3. Put the first ball aside. Process the next batch of black sesame seeds, brown flax seed, optional salt, and optional carob/cacao into a ball.
5. Flatten the balls a little and then roll them together into a loaf. Then cut. But feel free to make your favorite shapes. Just make sure it doesn’t look like turds!
6. Put in the freezer for at least half an hour to make them nice and firm.
7. Keep refrigerated and eat as soon as you can. With every hour that passes, the fatty acids in the seeds oxidize releasing free radicals, like myself.
Ofek's Thoughts
By ofek Here’s real raw halva, and it is as authentic as it gets. I am in Palestine, where halva is sold in every open market by the kilo.
Halva is a sweet sesame confection. This raw version is pretty, delicious, and heavy but dense enough to make you stop after a few bites. A great way to get more flax into my daughter’s diet.
And yes, i am well aware that the mulberries I picked this morning look (and taste) far more orgasmic--and that is perfectly fine. To compete with nature is suicide.
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kandace
Aug 19, 2009
Wow! Mouth is watering just looking at your picture. Thank you.
kundalalita
Jan 30, 2010
Amazing... is it crumbly? I'm not middle eastern so I don't know if its supposed to be or not but when i went to Iran thats how it was. I had it for breakfast all the time! I can't wait to try it! You are awesome!
Cole
Sep 22, 2009
Shalom! this recipe is AWESOME!! Growing up never once did my house cease to have halvah in it...I will definetly make again, and share with my fam!!
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ofek
Sep 27, 2010
flax is not necessary - but an added optional feature for the ones that do want to eat flax. you can make it only from sesame and dates.
RawKidChef
Sep 27, 2010
This looks GREAT!!! The only seeds I eat are hemp and sesame, but don't digest flax well, or nuts. Is there a replacement for flax? Would hemp work? Thanks!
ambiguous
Sep 04, 2010
PS tried this again using all sesame and no flax and it was awesome. Definitely something you eat quickly whether you meant to or not . . .
zhanna8
Apr 01, 2010
how appetizing! and great presentation. you are awesome! ~thanks
ambiguous
Mar 26, 2010
I tried the light part of this recipe only (don't have any black sesame seeds at the moment), but it didn't work so well for me. It tasted ok, but not like halvah to me. I did use unhulled sesame seeds, but I generally prefer those anyway. Plus it did seem to go rancid in a couple of days--not sure if that was the flax or sesame. I think next time I'll skip the flax and use all sesame; I get plenty of flax elsewhere. And indeed mine was crumbly. Plus, food combining isn't the property of (sickly) 80/10/10 adherents or even raw food nuts like us; the idea has been around for a long time. Although I'm not huge on paying attention to combining, I think that flax and dates in the same recipe is actually pretty difficult to digest.
kundalalita
Jan 30, 2010
Amazing... is it crumbly? I'm not middle eastern so I don't know if its supposed to be or not but when i went to Iran thats how it was. I had it for breakfast all the time! I can't wait to try it! You are awesome!
Daria
Nov 29, 2009
Thanks I will try it today :)
ofek
Nov 27, 2009
hello daria - yes, divide.
Daria
Nov 24, 2009
this looks amazing, I'd love to try... I'm a bit confused though... do I divide the dates in 2 parts??? half for one ball and other for the other???
writeeternity
Nov 21, 2009
Ofek you are a genius and so funny too! You've stayed away from the site for too long!
Cole
Sep 22, 2009
Shalom! this recipe is AWESOME!! Growing up never once did my house cease to have halvah in it...I will definetly make again, and share with my fam!!
minibeast
Sep 11, 2009
Mullberries... oh, I'm so jealous! I haven't had those since I was a kid, and there was a tree behind our house!!
kandace
Aug 19, 2009
Wow! Mouth is watering just looking at your picture. Thank you.
Morning_theft
Aug 19, 2009
Ofek, Where are you from? And that halvah looks awesome...
spiritedmama
Aug 19, 2009
This looks great! I love halva, it has always been a special treat for me, raw or not! Thanks for the recipe.
lushpapaya
Aug 19, 2009
come on! its fine that you are a strict diciple of the 80/10/10 but atleast aknowledge that other rawvegans might not be.
SocaL
Aug 19, 2009
Catastrphic food combing.
fitfashionista
Aug 19, 2009
I love you for this. Thank you, I can't wait to try this!
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