Coconut Date Balls
Ingredients
- Khoya 250 gm
- Dates 250 gm
- Desiccated coconut 1 cup
- Cream 2 tbsp
- Castor sugar 2 tbsp
- Cardamom ground ½ tsp
- Shashlik sticks 6
- Colored vermicelli 1 tbsp
- Almond and pistachios 50 gm
- Butter 50 gm
- Flour 4 tbsp
- Red food color a pinch
- Green food color a pinch
Method
- Heat 1 tbsp butter in a pan, add 250 gm dates and fry well.Heat the remaining butter and add 4 tbsp flour, fry well.Now in a bowl put together fried dates, roasted flour, 250 gm khoya, 50 gm almond pistachio mixture, 2 tbsp cream, 2 tbsp castor sugar and ½ tsp ground green cardamom. Mix well and make into balls.
- Divide 1 cup desiccated coconut into 3 portions, mix a pinch of red food color in one portion and mix a pinch of green color in other portion. Keep the third portion white.
- Coat date balls in all the 3 colored desiccated coconut. Thread in shashlik sticks, sprinkle with colored vermicelli and serve.
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