Dates Delight (खजूर की मिठाई)-Dates Roll- Sugar Free Sweets

Ingredients –

• Seedless dates (khajur) – 1 cup (cut into small pieces)

If you have dates with seed then remove the seeds before preparation

• Ghee/butter -1 tbsp.

For stuffing –

• Mix dry fruits (as per your choice)-

Almonds, Cashew nuts, dry coconut, and pistachio (Pista).

• Milk for prepare dough
• Food color – green, yellow
• Chopped cashew nuts
• Roasted poppy seeds (khas khas) – for coating.
• Cardamom powder – 1 tsp.

Method –

1. Add all the dry fruits into grinder jar to make fine powder.
2. Divide the powder into two equal parts to prepare two types of stuffing.
3. In first part add cardamom powder, sugar as per you taste and chopped cashew & mix well.
4. Add yellow food color & with the help of milk make a soft dough.
5. Repeat the same for other part of the dough with green color.
6. Dough is ready we will use this for stuffing.
7. Heat ghee or butter in the kadhai on low heat.
8. Add chopped dates, cook for 1-2 minutes.
9. Keep stirring continuously.
10. After 2 minutes turn off the heat, take out the mixture in a plate and let it cool down.
11. Once it cools down shape the dates into a ball.
12. Apply ghee/oil on the surface and roll the dates using rolling pin.
13. Cut the flattened roll into two equal parts.
14. Roll the green stuffing in the same way and cut into two equal halves.
15. Take half of the yellow stuffing and roll it into cylindrical shape.
16. Place all the stuffing on the dates roll and with the help of our hand cover it properly.
17. Sprinkle roasted poppy seeds on the surface and roll it properly.
18. Roll is ready, wrap the roll into plastic wrap or aluminum foil.
19. Repeat the same for other half of the dates roll.
20. Keep it in fridge for 1 hour, so it can settle down.
21. After an hour remove plastic wrap from dates roll and cut the roll into slices.
22. Dates delight is ready to serve.
23. Keep it in fridge and use.