Hey guys, welcome back to Dede’s Mediterranean Kitchen. Today, I’m going to be making a wonderful recipe with a wonderful fruit that comes from the Middle East region and the Mediterranean called dates. I’m going to be making a Date Shake out of this fruit. It’s wonderful. It’s very sweet and it’s very satisfying.
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Now the ingredients I’m going to need for this recipe, to start off with our some Majdoul dates. They’re’ nice, plum to juicy dates, you can get them in a lot of the stores and again you can them on my website, they have a small pit inside and you want to take that pit out. They are really, really, really sweet. They are high in sugar. You’re also going to need some heavy cream, some ice cream chocolate shavings for garnish and a nice glass to put the shake in.
So, I cut about a cup of the Majdoul dates just into little pieces. All I did was open up the date, take the small pit out. It’s really easy. It’s an easy fruit because there is just one pit in the whole date and it’s really easy to find. I just cut it out with the knife, just like that just into little pieces because what we’re going to do is we’re going to actually put it into the blender and blend it up to make our shake. So I just took out the pieces, cut up the date. These are good. They’re really high in sugar and you eat them along time ago when they were traveling through the dessert or they’re carrying them along journeys because the dates have a lot of sugar in them and it would help with keeping their energy up through the travel.
So, back to the shake, I’m going to put the dates into the blender. So, this I’m going to add about half a cup of heavy cream. Now, I love heavy cream because it adds a lot of flavor and it water down to drink. I’m going to turn this on. It’s a little bit noisy. You want to get a plastic spatula because when we’re working with electronics you don’t want to use any metal spoons or anything. So you’re going to blend the dates until they are well blended and stir it around and make tickle.
I’m going to add a little bit more cream. If you see, because when you blend the dates, it’s going to become a paste. So if you see that the paste is too thick just add a little bit more of cream and let the blender grow until they’re all well-blended.
So we’re done blending. So what I’m going to do now is add ice cream. You want to take the ice cream out for a couple of minutes maybe 10 to 15 minutes before you make the dates because you want to soft. I’m going to add maybe about two to three cups of the ice cream and this is just plain vanilla ice cream. You want to do it low fat, you can do low fat. You want to do regular fat, you can do regular fat. I love ice cream. Let’s get that all in there and then turn the blender on. You’re going to turn the blender on. Again use a spatula to stir it off until it’s nice and well-blended.
So, I blended it out and it’s nice and well blended and I’m going to get our nice serving dish. There’s a little bit of mess here with the ice cream, it’s okay. This is really fun also for kids to make. And it’s healthy if you know certain kids can have chocolate or strawberries, dates are really good alternative. I’m going to take my blender and I’m going to put this into this nice glass.
A lot of people can’t imagine a date shake but I tell you once you try this it’s amazing. If you like rose water or orange blossom water you can also add it. It adds it a great taste as well. I’m going to top it off with some chocolate shavings. Just like that, it’s so good. It’s so sweet. It’s a shake that you never had. You should try it and serve it to your friends. They’re going to love it. They’re going to say what is that, it hits the spot. You didn’t even have to make a dessert just to make the shakes after dinner. It’s amazing.
Now remember go to my website if you need any of the ingredients, if you need dates that are already ground up. You can buy those at my website as well and you can find all the recipes at www.DedeMed.com. Enjoy this and come again for Dede’s Med training Kitchen.
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