Halvah from seeds of sunflower is loved by many thanks to the delicate unique taste. However very few people know that it is not a so simple dessert — halvah bears in itself unique advantage for a human body and has a number of advantages. In article it will be a question of structure and nutritious properties of a product. Also we will talk about nuances of the choice and storage of this delicacy. And thanks to the recipe checked by time, you will be able to make tasty halvah from sunflower seeds in own kitchen.
What do halvah sunflower of
Halvah call the confectionery products having fine-fibered, layered structure.
Initially delicacy looked as dense saturated weight from the ground nuts (almonds, peanut, a filbert, cashew) or sesame seeds with honey.
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Original halvah can be made by a manual method. In the countries of the East there are even people specializing in manual preparation of a product call their kandalatch.
Sometimes, for the purpose of giving of lightness, eggs were added. Over time honey began to be replaced with granulated sugar. Halvah with sugar was much cheaper therefore this recipe received mass distribution. Technologists did not cease to look for and other ways of reduction of cost of a dessert.
Today confectioneries produce this delicacy according to the special recipes and secrets, using various additives: candied fruits, cocoa powder and others. The lack of enough nuts and their high cost became the reason of gradual transition to seeds of oil-bearing crops, for example, sunflower sunflower seeds.
Sunflower halvah is considered exclusively useful. It has most of all admirers in countries of Eastern Europe. Its color is much more dark than classical nut.
This version is made from the ground sunflower seeds.
It will be useful for you to learn what sunflower sunflower seeds are useful to an organism of men and women and also than the sunflower oil which is (not refined) and sunflower honey is useful.
The traditional compounding also includes caramel for compound of ingredients. Train her from water, sugar and treacle (the dense sweet substance received from starch).
The characteristic structure and fragility of a product are reached due to beating of caramel weight in foam. To Obrazovatelyami of foam serves natural components here — a root of a licorice or a soap root, sometimes they are replaced with egg white. The fried and small pounded seeds containing oil mix with a smooth elastic weight.
The dessert turns out layered and crispy. The taste of such halvah is often enriched and supplemented with various additional components — chocolate or vanilla.
Caloric content and chemical composition
Halvah — high-calorific delicacy, and to these it is obliged to the sugar and fats which are present at its structure. The power value (caloric content) on 100 grams of a product is 516.2 kcal.
Whether you know? Suleyman Velikolepny — the tenth Ottoman sultan was a big fan of halvah. Near the palace he ordered to build the House of halvah. Cooks of the sultan prepared more than 30 types of refined sweet.
The ratio of proteins, fats, carbohydrates looks as follows:
- proteins — 11.6 g;
- fats — 29.7 g;
- carbohydrates — 54 g.
The product contains the following micro and macrocells:
- mono - and disaccharides — 41.5 g;
- starch — 12.5 g;
- water — 2.9 g;
- ashes — 1.8 g;
- potassium — 351 mg;
- phosphorus — 292 mg;
- calcium — 211 mg;
- magnesium — 178 mg;
- sodium — 87 mg;
- iron — 33.2 mg.
As a part of a delicacy there are also vitamins:
- thiamine — 0.8 mg (100 g of a product provide 53.3% of standard daily rate);
- Riboflavinum — 0.1 mg (5.6%);
- niatsin — 6.4256 mg (32.1%).
In what advantage
Due to the rich vitamin structure, sunflower delicacy is shown at fight against a number of diseases. B1 vitamin is necessary for people with violations of nervous system and cardiac illnesses.
The product contributes to normalization of arterial blood pressure, does not allow to develop to neurosises, is prevention of heart troubles and vessels. Perhaps, you even noticed at yourself some improvement of memory after frequent consumption of this delicacy.
The positive impact is made and on a condition of digestive system — digestion of carbohydrates accelerates, process of release of gastric juice proceeds quicker. The small portion of a dessert satisfies hunger, in general strengthens and increases protective forces of an organism.
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Squirrels act as a construction element. Magnesium promotes strengthening and accumulation of muscle bulk.
And "live" components of halvah are oil-soluble vitamins, phospholipids — interfere with aging of an organism.
Halvah from sunflower seeds of a sunflower is extraordinary useful both to men's, and to female health. Let's consider in what the advantage specifically consists.
For women
The woman giving preference to halvah (instead of sugar and chocolate), can observe at herself improvement of mood. Delicacy even helps with treatment from a depression, migraine, insomnia and manifestations of a premenstrual syndrome.
Significant positive changes are observed from a reproductive system. Therefore in unsuccessful attempts to conceive the kid it is necessary to add a piece of east delicacy to the daily menu.
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The advantage consists also in treatment of diseases of mammary glands, ovaries, a uterus. Curative impact on a condition of head skin of the woman and on the growth of hair is had.
It is possible to cope with dimness, dryness and fragility of hair. It is especially useful to eat halvah at loss of hair owing to the endured stress.
For men
The main value of delicacy for men — improvement of reproductive function. The males who are often consuming this dessert have more chances to conceive the child. Salutary effect is had and on potency — the product is though not the best, but nevertheless the activator. Besides, at men processes of withering of cages slow down. The dessert warns a premature gray hair and baldness, copes with breakdown and melancholy. Considerably the working capacity increases.
Whether you know? In honor of halvah called an asteroid of 518 Halawe. The minor planet was discovered in 1903 by the American astronomer Raymond Dougan adoring this east delicacy.
Whether it is possible to eat
Despite advantage of halvah at numerous illnesses, there are such situations or problems with health when it is necessary to limit consumption of this delicacy or at all to exclude it from a diet.
To pregnant women
If at the pregnant woman the allergy to seeds of a sunflower and other components of halvah of this type was not observed, then this dessert will become a rich source of folic acid without which the embryo cannot be formed.
It is required to future mother more than forces and energy which can be received, accepting east sweet in food. Plus to everything raises hemoglobin level, the immunity becomes stronger, it is possible to avoid catarrhal diseases.
However in the last trimester of pregnancy it is better to refuse halvah — she is capable to provoke allergic reaction at the kid.
If during pregnancy the woman gathered extra kilos, it is more preferable to replace high-calorie delicacy with fresh fruit.
When feeding by a breast
During feeding by a breast halvah is shown only if mother and the child have on it no allergy. The product also does not suit the nursing mother if at her were noted problems from digestive system.
In all other cases halvah — very nutritious product at a lactation. After its use the amount of milk and also its "quality" (fat content) increase. Milk is sated with useful elements.
Not all products even if in them there are a lot of vitamins, it is possible to include in a diet during pregnancy or a lactation. To compensate a diet vitamin and mineral complexes for pregnant women and the feeding women can help.
At diabetes
For preparation of halvah the considerable dose of sugar is used. Besides, there is a treacle (sweet substance). Therefore sick diabetes this confectionery is strictly forbidden to use even in small portions.
At gastritis, pancreatitis
East sweet is rich with cellulose, sugar treacle and sunflower oil. These products are heavy for a stomach. They are capable to cause a complication of gastritis or its recurrence.
If, having this disease, all of you equally cannot exclude completely halvah from the menu, eat it with small pieces and only on a full stomach. A similar situation and at pancreatitis. Owing to a disease at the person the full functioning of a pancreas is already broken. Consuming halvah large portions, the patient can significantly do much harm to the organism and aggravate situation.
Growing thin
The high-calorific sweet, apparently, has to be contraindicated to all growing thin. It is really not recommended in excessive quantities to the people predisposed to obesity or suffering from completeness.
However small portions of a product at a diet are even useful.
Instead of cakes, cookies, candies, chocolate and other sweets eat a small piece of halvah which will quickly sate an organism, having saved from feeling of hunger.
From what age it is possible for children
Pediatricians do not advise to give halvah to the children who did not reach six-year age. It is explained that particles of a product are capable to do harm to weak teeth or to injure mucous a mouth. Also there is a danger that the child will choke on a friable product.
Excessive consumption of halvah can become causal development of caries.
To children of 6 years is also more senior it is not forbidden to use east delicacy, but only small portions (about 10-15 g a day) and in the absence of an allergy to sunflower seeds and nuts.
However daily it is undesirable to give to the child halvah nevertheless.
How not to be mistaken upon purchase
If halvah is on sale in packing, pay attention only to copies in a transparent wrapper. At such product it is possible to give an assessment to quality visually.
So, check a product in such parameters:
- Refrain from purchase of a product if its surface is covered with sugar crystals. They demonstrate that the manufacturer saved on seeds, having as much as possible replaced them with caramel.
- If found oily drops on a surface, so the dessert manufacturing techniques were not observed.
- The dark raid speaks about unseemly conditions of keeping or long ago the expired term.
- Study an expiration date: the it is more, the more harmful preservatives contain in a product.
Important! Vacuum packing keeps a dessert about half a year. At the same time the cardboard box allows delicacy to remain fresh up to 2 months.
Further we will estimate halvah weighed out. In this case there is an opportunity to consider a product in a section:
- Examine a product on existence of a peel - it is an obvious indicator of a substandard product.
- The fresh delicacy has to be dry, with well expressed fine-fibered structure. Weight has to be scattered slightly in hands.
- Try to try a product piece. Weight should not stick to the teeth. And slightly bitter smack says that the oils concentrated in seeds turned rancid.
- And, at last, do not forget to learn a delicacy expiration date from the seller.
How to store in house conditions
If you do not plan to store long a dessert, it is enough to keep of it in a vase, having covered with a dry towel. The product cannot be stored in cellophane or polyethylene where pernicious in this case moisture is easily formed. In the dampened delicacy there is no useful substance left at all.
Besides in similar conditions the consistence and taste of sweet can exchange so that it cannot be eaten.
Important! It is extremely important to minimize contact of an oily product with air and light. Halvah is afraid of moisture — any moisture has to be excluded. Non-compliance with these rules threatens with education in a product of a mold, dangerous to the person.
It is necessary to hold halvah indoors where temperature does not fluctuate, rolling over for an indicator of +18 °C. As this dessert needs rather cool place, it is better to keep it in the fridge.
So, after acquisition of delicacy it is necessary to develop it, to shift in a glass or ceramic container with a cover and to keep in the refrigerator.
How many it is possible to eat in day
Remember that halvah is first of all a dessert, but not the main food product. Strongly leaning on halvah, you can wrap up to yourself to the detriment of its advantage and excellent tastes.
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Not to cause damage to health, you should not indulge yourself this dessert too often.
Halvah should be consumed from time to time (not every day) and small portions. The optimum standard daily rate is 20-30 g.
It will help not to consume unnecessary calories, to supply an organism with nutritious elements and also to feel refined taste and aroma of remarkable east sweet.
Possible harm
Except the contraindications which are already stated above, the patients having atherosclerosis and diseases of a liver should limit consumption of halvah.
On an organism of the healthy person the sunflower product can make harmful effects only if not to know when to stop in its consumption. Seeds of a sunflower are exclusive natural preservatives.
But at the same time it is noticed that since certain time in seeds there is an excessive accumulation of poisonous metal — cadmium. This hazardous substance is capable to affect kidneys.
Important! Under no circumstances do not combine halvah with dairy products, meat, chocolate, cheese. It will give strong load of an organism and will do much harm to your health.
And the stale, stale product can lead to organism intoxication. Therefore it is worth buying a dessert by small pieces that he did not manage to lie too long. If you often are fond of sunflower seeds, you also should limit portions of consumption of halvah or to alternate these two products.
One more downside of consumption of this product — it is strong allergen. The persons predisposed to manifestation of allergic reactions should not lean on it. The optimal variant — is delicacy separately from other products and on an incomplete stomach, but also not on an empty stomach. Thus, the dessert will quicker be acquired by an organism.
How to make in house conditions
The general list of the ingredients necessary for preparation of home-made sunflower halvah includes:
- sunflower seeds — 450 g;
- wheat flour — 200 g;
- white granulated sugar — 150 g;
- water — 200 ml;
- crude sunflower oil — 60 ml;
- vanilla sugar — 15 g.
Step-by-step process of preparation:
- First of all it is necessary to redden sunflower seeds till golden color. For this purpose pour all seeds into a hot frying pan. Continuously stirring slowly, roast them on moderate fire until they begin to exhale pleasant aroma and will accept a golden-yellow shade.
- As soon as seeds reach the necessary look and aroma, it is very important to pour at once them into separate ware and to leave to cool down.
- We pass to the following process. On yet the frying pan which was not in time to cool down pour the sifted in advance wheat flour. It needs also to be roasted slightly for acquisition of a beautiful beige shade.
- During this time seeds managed to cool down completely. Crush them by means of the blender or the meat grinder. If you have a small blender, you should carry out process in two steps.
- As soon as seeds accept kashitseobrazny consistence and will begin to stick to blender walls, they can be considered rather crushed. Pour the received powder into a frying pan to flour. Put on fire. Slightly roast mix, trying to achieve uniform consistence at the same time. If you have lumps — it at this stage is not terrible.
- For preparation of sugar syrup with water pour all prepared sugar and also vanilla sugar into a small pan. At once begin to mix liquid — sugar has to be dissolved completely in water. Fire has to be moderate. You cook syrup for 10 minutes (to readiness). Set aside ready syrup to cool down.
- Mix from sunflower seeds with flour managed to cool down, once again miss it via the blender. Interrupt until ischezn"