Iraqi Charoset
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Iraqi Charoset is a dried fruit and nut based paste served during the Jewish celebration of Passover by Jews from Iraq.
Ingredients
- 500 ml. Iraqi dates, chopped and seeded
- water
- salt
- 125 ml. chopped walnuts or pistachios
Directions
1.Boil dates in lightly salted water stirring frequently until it is a thick paste.
2.Mix in finely chopped nuts.
3.A traditional variant is to strain the pulp out of the paste producing a honey-like date syrup. This procedure uses considerably more dates and can take several days to produce sufficient syrup.
Source
- Iraqi Charoset from the Wikibooks Cookbook -- original source of recipe, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License
