DRY FRUIT DELIGHT
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| Dry Fruit Delight |
Cuisine: Experimental
SuperKook: Prema Sheshadri
- butter. ghee (1 tea spoon, optional)
- dried coconut (2 tea spoons for presentation, optional)
- dried coconut (3 tea spoons)
- khus khus (3 tea spoons)
- chopped dates (20-25)
- pista, badam, cashew, cranberry, raisins and any other dry fruit of choice. Cut these fruits into small pieces. Use a knife to cut them into small even pieces. this makes it easier to roll the cake (1/4 cup)
Recipe:
- Heat ghee/butter in a pan.
- Fry khus khus and dry coconut. (these two together bring down the 'sweetness' of the final product. So you can decide the quantity of these two according to taste)
- Add the chopped dates to the above mixture.
Hint: To make it easier for the dates to be chopped, soak them in milk for a few hours. You can also add milk and microwave with the dates if you are running short on time.
- Cook the mixture well while stirring constantly. Make note that you have not added any water/liquid to it at all.
- When the dates become soft, switch off and allow it to stand and cool.
- Knead it thoroughly once cool and roll it to a thin film. This film needs to be as thin as possible as we are going to be rolling it into sheets later on.
- On the film, spread evenly the broken pieces of nuts and dry fruits.
- Use a rolling pin on top of these nuts and dry fruit pieces to push them into the film gently.
- Now roll the entire film tightly into a cylinder and flatten the sides.
- Roll this cylinder over dried coconut powder and then cut this cylinder into small slices.
- Refrigerate this before eating.
Health benefits:
- If you do not add the coconut and ghee, this is a dish made only with dry fruits and zero sugar. Very healthy and very tasty.
