Tasty and Easy Recipes

Ingredients:
250 grams dry Dates
1 teaspoon Red chili pepper
5 teaspoons Coriander powder
5 teaspoons aniseed powder
2 teaspoons white cumin powder
3/4 or 1 cup Lemon juice
Salt to taste

Method:

• Boil the dates until a little tender.
• Remove the stones and keep them whole.
• Dry with a clean cloth.
• Mix all the ground ingredients together with a little salt and fill in the dates.
• Keep the dates in clean jar.
• Mix a little salt with lemon juice and pour over the dates, taking care that dates must be covered with lemon juice.
• Keep aside for 7 days.
• Shake the jar every other day and serve after one week.

Ingredients:

dried apricots
raisins
dates (seedless)
sugared cherries
figs
walnuts
hazelnuts
almonds
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
3 eggs
1 cup flour

Method:

In a bowl put a handfuls of (yes I mean it) of dried apricots, (do not cut), raisins, dates (seedless), and sugared cherries. You can add figs too. (I didn’t have at home.) Add walnuts, hazelnuts, and almonds. The only thing that I do not put is peanuts.
Add 1/2 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and 3 eggs.
Mix all very well and add 1 cup flour.
Again mix until all is well blended. (It is very sticky.)
Take an English baking pan; cover with wax baking paper.
Fill with the sticky dough and push as much as you can and level the dough in the pan.
Bake in a preheated 350°F hot oven for 40-45 minutes.
This cake is dark brown in color and hard like a stick. Cool and with a sharp knife cut thin slices.

Ingredients:
Cake:
1 cup finely chopped dates
1 tsp. baking soda
1-1/2 cups boiling water
1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
1-3/4 cups flour
1/2 tsp. salt
3/4 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 cup butter (or margarine)
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Topping:
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup nuts, chopped (optional)
2 cups chocolate chips

Method:
Toss the dates with the baking soda in a medium sized bowl. Pour the boiling water over them and stir. Set aside and let cool to room temperature.
While the date mixture is cooling grease a 9″x13″ pan and set aside. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Sift together the nutmeg, flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder; set aside.
Cream the butter or margarine and sugar with an electric mixer. Add the eggs and vanilla; blend well. Pour in the date mixture and blend. Add the dry ingredients and beat until smooth.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and top with the sugar, nuts and chocolate chips. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. This may be tricky because of the chocolate chips so you’ll have to work around them when checking for “doneness”.