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Bought a pack of dates the other day -- reglet nour variety -- for a change (and to challenge my childhood memories of them being awful)
Very sweet, but good eating. Only use in recipes I know of is in puddings, but was wondering what else they can be used in? Seemingly they are quite a big part in Arab cuisine. But I can't find any recipes.
Dates and figs are used in a lot of North African dishes mate. Mainly slow cooked "tagine" type dishes. I use figs in a spicy Moroccan lamb dish but dates would work too.
Maybe search for recipes by country rather than ingredients? Morocco, Tunisia, Lybia, Egyptian all use dates, figs and apricots in their savoury dishes.
Dates always remind me of childhood Christmases, my Dad always got them, he loved them.
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