Flour, sugar syrup, and mutton fat are the key ingredients in the traditional Tajik dessert known as halvaitar. This sweet treat involves mixing flour with melted mutton fat. The combination is cooked until light brown, and then combined with sugar syrup.

The resulting liquid flour halva is either added to small serving bowls or poured onto plates and cut into pieces when chilled. A variation of the traditional Middle Eastern treat known as halva, halvaitar is often flavored with vanilla and enhanced with crushed nuts such as walnuts, almonds, or pistachios.