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No-bake walnut and date halva with saffron

Name: No-bake walnut and date halva with saffron
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: 50 g Chopped walnuts; 100 g Dried dates; 100 g Butter; 1 tbsp Honey; 120 g All-purpose flour; to taste Saffron; 150 ml Water

No-bake halva made with flour toasted in butter, walnuts, dates, honey, and saffron, then chilled and cut into squares. Serves 12.

Middle Eastern cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Servings: 12 servings
Difficulty: Easy

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No-bake walnut and date halva with honey and saffron is a skillet-made sweet that also fits a Christmas table. The base is flour toasted in melted butter for about ten minutes, then mixed with coarsely chopped walnuts and dates. Saffron-infused water with a tablespoon of honey, prepared ahead of time, flavors the mixture. This recipe makes 12 servings.

Ingredients

12 servings

Chopped walnuts 50 g
Dried dates 100 g
Butter 100 g
Honey 1 tbsp
All-purpose flour 120 g
Saffron to taste
Water 150 ml

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Instructions

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Place the saffron in a mug, pour boiling water over it, and add a tablespoon of honey. Do not stir; simply cover the mug with a small plate and set aside.
Melt the butter in a skillet and stir in the flour.
Toast the mixture over low heat for about 10 minutes, then add the coarsely chopped walnuts and cook for about 1 more minute.
Add the finely chopped dates and cook briefly again.
Finally, pour in the honey syrup, which will have turned amber by now, and stir everything into a smooth puree.
Remove the mixture from the heat and spread it in a glass dish with a lid.
Once the halva has cooled, cover it with the lid and refrigerate for about 2 hours.
Cut the halva into small squares and serve.

Tip: Toast the flour over low heat, stirring constantly, until golden and nutty-smelling; burnt flour would give the halva a bitter taste.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 152 kcal
Protein: 1.9 g
Carbohydrates: 16 g
of which sugars: 6.9 g
Fat: 9.6 g
of which saturates: 4.5 g
Fiber: 1.2 g
Salt: 0.0 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Nepečená halva z orechov, datlí a medu so šafranom