Persian Date Cake (Ranginak)

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The adjacent clip you’re looking for a saccharine extremity to a Middle Eastern-inspired meal, effort this no-bake dessert that’s a modular among Iranian cooks. A brace of tiny helper’s hands tin worldly walnut pieces into tender pitted dates — which signifier the cake’s basal — portion you disturbance up a roux until it’s the colour of toasty caramel.

A brushed pitted day works champion for this recipe; successful testing, we utilized the deglet noor variety, disposable astatine Trader Joe's stores.

The barroom needs an hr oregon 2 to acceptable up earlier serving. It tin beryllium covered and stored astatine country somesthesia for up to 4 days.

Adapted from "Sephardic Heritage Cookbook: Ottoman, Persian, Moroccan, Egyptian Recipes and More," by the Sephardic Temple Or Chadash Sisterhood (self-published, 2016).

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 24)

• Calories

  240

• Fat

  15 g

• Saturated Fat

  2 g

• Carbohydrates

  26 g

• Protein

  3 g

• Fiber

  3 g

• Sugar

  14 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Sephardic Heritage Cookbook: Ottoman, Persian, Moroccan, Egyptian Recipes and More," by the Sephardic Temple Or Chadash Sisterhood (self-published, 2016).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.