Eid-e-Milad or Mawlid is the birth anniversary of Islam's greatest
Prophet Muhammed. Prophet Muhammed led an exemplary life and is honoured for
the same on this day. The Almighty's chosen messenger and Prophet of Islam
loved dates/khajur and encouraged everyone to include this miraculous
fruit in their diet. Therefore in Islam influenced countries and cultures they
widely use dates and also make sweets/candies of dates on this auspicious day.
Our home chef Leo visited the Mumbai's iconic Haji Ali Dargah to seek blessings
and also makes for us 'Rffis Tounsi' - a Mawlid sweet cookie made in the
country Algeria. It is a traditional and healthy no bake date cookies. Eid-e-Milad
Mubarak!
Ingredients
· Date
paste – 1 cup
· Semolina/Rava
– 250 gms
· White
unsalted butter – 150 gms
· Honey
– 3 tsp
· Salt
– a pinch
Method
1. Roast the semolina on low flame
till it starts changing colour.
2. Take
it out from the flame and add the semolina in a mixing bowl.
3. To
the warm semolina add a pinch of salt, butter and mix well to get a crumbly
texture.
4. Add
honey, date paste and mix well to get a tight dough.
5. Shape
the dough into cookies or like an Indian peda.
6. Refrigerate
the cookies for some time to make it firm.
7. Rfiss Tounsi is ready.
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