Stuffed Dates

Ingredients

1½ cups ground almonds or 400 g

2½ cups icing sugar or 300 g

1½ tablespoons rose water

1 tin NESTLÉ® Sweetened Condensed Milkor 397 g

1¼ kg dried dates, Sagii dates are preferable

200 g almonds, or 1⅓ cups, boiled and skinned

1½ cups pistachio nuts or 200 g

Preparation

Mix gently the almond powder, icing sugar, rose water and NESTLÉ® Sweetened Condensed Milk ; avoid over-mixing or else the dough becomes oily.

Cut each piece of date at one side lengthwise and remove the seed, stuff it with 2 pieces of almond or 3 pieces of pistachio.

Take a small piece of the almond paste already prepared, roll with your hand giving oval shape and put inside.