Halvah with Desiccated Coconut

We wash the pumpkins and peel them until they are not green. We grate them and put them in a strainer with some salt, to be withered. We strain them and add the semolina, the walnuts, the sugar, the cinnamon and the oil and mix them. We lay 3 phyllo sheets on the baking pan and some of the mixture and keep laying oiled phyllo sheets and some of the mixture. We keep 3 phyllo sheets to use them in the end.

We cut the mushrooms in two if they are large, we wash them or drain them if we use a can and we put them in a pan with oil. We sauté them well until they are halved in size and get all their water out. Then, we add some spinach and lettuce, if we like, as well as the onions and we mix them well.

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