Stuffed Dates

Ingredients

• 12-16 dates, seeded and slit
• Khoya Stuffing
• ½ cup grated khoya/mawa
• 1½ tablespoons roasted and chopped almonds
• 1 tablespoon pistachio powder
• 1 tablespoon honey
• A pinch of green cardamom powder
• Coconut Peanut Stuffing
• 1½ tablespoons desiccated coconut
• 1½ tablespoons roasted peanut powder
• 2 tablespoons dried rose petals
• 2 teaspoons toasted sesame seeds
• 1½ tablespoons honey 
• Orange Cream Cheese Stuffing
• ¼ cup cream cheese
• 2 teaspoons digestive biscuit powder
• 1 teaspoon orange marmalade
• ½ orange
• Garnish
• Pistachio powder
• Toasted white sesame seeds
• Desiccated coconut
• Roasted and chopped almonds
• Candied orange peel

Method

1. For the khoya stuffing, take khoya in a bowl, add almonds, pistachio powder, honey and green cardamom powder and mix well.
2. For coconut-peanut stuffing, take desiccated coconut in another bowl, add roasted peanut powder, dried rose petals, sesame seeds and honey and mix well.
3. For orange-cream cheese stuffing, take cream cheese in a third bowl. Add digestive biscuit powder, orange marmalade and zest of the orange directly into the bowl.
4. Fill up the cream cheese mixture in a piping bag and stuff some of the dates with the mixture.
5. Stuff other 2 mixtures with hand in some other dates.
6. For garnish spread the pistachio powder on 1st plate, sesame seeds and desiccated coconut on 2nd plate and roasted almonds on 3rd plate.
7. For garnish roll the stuffed dates one by one in any of the garnishes.
8. Further garnish the dates stuffed with cream cheese mixture with candied orange peel and serve.