Dates (Khajoor) and dry fruit sweets (discs or katli)

These sweets are both tasty and healthy. They are completely sugarless and fatless. Excellent for fasting days as well as festive occasions like Diwali. You can also have them to satisfy your sugar cravings without feeling guilty.

Ingredients

1. Dates (Khajoor) , deseeded and finely chopped- 1 cup
2. Mixed dry fruits (almonds, pistachio, cashews, walnuts etc.), chopped -1 cup

Method

1. Put a non stick pan for heating on a slow flame.
2. Add the chopped dates to the pan and cook on low flame stirring continuously for 2-3 minutes.
3. Now add the chopped mixed dry fruits and keep stirring the dates and dry fruits mixture continuously till everything is well combined and gathered together.
4. Remove the mixture in a bowl to cool down slightly but not completely cold. It should be slightly warm so that it can be molded into desired shapes. Now you can either shape them into balls or discs.
5. To shape them into discs, take the mixture and shape it into a cylinder shape. Wrap the cylinder  tightly into a cling wrap or aluminium foil and keep it in the fridge to set for one hour.
6. After one hour remove from fridge and unwrap and slice into 1 cm thick discs.
7. Store them in the fridge.

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