Choco-dates

We lived in a gated-guarded compound in Bahrain. Since the property belonged to someone from the royal family and The King's secretary resided in the compound we had police security by night. Two policemen took turns to guard at night. One of them was a retired Air force officer of the Pakistan Air Force.

While I distributed Navrathri prasadams to our gardeners and maintenance personnel they used to share it with these officers too. On one such occasion, he had the sarkarai pongal and wanted me to write down the recipe for his wife. I gave him that and made some pongal to send to his family. He was so touched by this simple geature and befriended us so much that to my husband he was 'hamara dosth policeman' and to me Bhai saheb. I was bhabijaan and Niki was Bitiya to their family. On the eve of eid his wife sent me seviyan and when once Niki was home on holiday, they sent a 2 litre icecream box full of Kashmiri pulav.

It is time around eid this year and we just made a call to wish him. I decided to dedicate this post to this man and his family. This is an iftar dish so is an ideal time to post it too.

I made the chocolate fudge and rolled it over dates. These taste excellent but heavy in calories. typically a minute on lips and forever on hips delicacies :(

Ingredients:

Evaporated milk 200ml

Sugar 220 grams

Cocoa powder 2 tablespoons

Butter 12o grams

Dates whole 20 numbers seeds removed.

Mix all ingredients except the dates in a heavy bottomed pan. Place on medium fire and constantly stir until the mixture thickens and leaves sides of pan.

Switch off when the mixture can be rolled in a ball. Allow to cool until. Since you have added enough butter, it will not be necessary to grease your palms.

Take a small ball of the mixture and roll it over one date, completely covering it.

Repeat with the rest of the mixture. Place the rolled dates separated in a flat dish.

These chocolate delicasies are off to

CFK - chocolate hosted by Hema of Salt to taste an event started by Sharmi of Neivedhyam
and to

Kids Delight happening @ Srivalli's Spice your life to mark the anniversary of the blog.