Dates and Nuts Roll
Dates and Nuts Rolls is a healthy and crunchy sweet that can be made in a jiffy. A slice of this dates roll is enough to recoup your burst of energy. This sweet can be made diabetic - friendly by substituting the coating of sugar with desiccated coconut or powdered nuts.
Ingredients
- 300 grams dates deseeded and chopped
- 50 grams cashew nuts chopped
- 50 grams almonds chopped
- 50 grams pistachios chopped
- 3 to 4 tablespoons evaporated milk or condensed milk
- 1 tablespoon oil or Ghee
- 1/2 to 1 teaspoon vanilla essence optional
FOR COATING
- 3 tablespoon powdered sugar or desiccated coconut or powdered nuts
Instructions
- In a pan, dry roast the chopped nuts on medium heat for a minute taking care not to burn the nuts. Keep them aside.
- Take oil or ghee in another heavy bottom skillet and saute the dates. Stir at regular intervals.
- In between add the evaporated or condensed milk to the dates. Within 3 to 4 minutes the dates become soft mushy mass.
- Add the nuts to the dates and saute for a minute. Now put off the flame.
- Add the Vanilla essence at this stage.
- Mix nicely and let the dates mixture cool slightly.
- Once the dates mixture is cool enough to handle, grease your palms and make 2 or 3 smooth cylindrical logs with this mixture.
- Make sure that the rolls are tightly packed and there are no.air bubbles.
- Coat these dates rolls with powdered sugar.
- Tightly wrap the rolls in a foil paper and refrigerate for an hour.
- After an hour take the rolls out from the refrigerator and cut into 1/4" thick slices.
- Serve and enjoy.
- You can store the remaining dates rolls at room temperature or in a refrigerator.
Notes
- You could coat the dates rolls with toasted sesame also.