date candies with orange

I found this recipe a few years ago in an international cookbook. Something different, something I had to try, and still like to try 🙂

Ingredients for 4 people:

• 150 grams of dried and pitted dates
• 30 grams of raisins, soaked overnight in fresh orange juice
• 50 grams of marzipan
• 30 grams of chopped walnuts
• 30 g chopped pistachios
• A pinch of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves
• 8 sheets phyllo dough (very thin) (or puff pastry, which is a bit easier to handle)
• Egg white
• A little oil for frying
• 2 oranges

Directions:

• Submerge the raisins for one night in fresh orange juice.
• Remove them from the orange juice, and press the juice out of them. (Drink the juice, it is extremely tasty now).
• Chop the dates, walnuts, pistachios and raisins fine with the kitchen robot.
• Add the cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.
• Mix them with the marzipan and create a paste of the mixture.
• Now it is time to taste the mixture 🙂
• Roll the mixture into a piece of phyllo dough (or puff pastry).  Use some egg white to fix the candies.
• Bake the candies shortly in a pan to make them brown on all sides.
• Enjoy and surprise your guests 🙂