Name: Date Pastries (Khajur Ni Ghari)
Yield: Serves 6 to 10.
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon (or more) honey or sugar; 1 cup finely chopped soft pitted dates; ½ teaspoon cardamom seeds, pounded; Pinch of salt; 2 cups all purpose flour; ¼ cup chopped walnuts; ¾ teaspoon granulated sugar, plus more for sprinkling; ¼ teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon grated orange peel; ½ cup ice water; 12 tablespoons (1 ½ sticks) chilled butter, cut into ½-inch pieces (or half butter, half ghee); 2 tablespoons melted butter or ghee; Rose water; 1 tablespoon ghee or butter

Preparation info

Serves
6 to 10
.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

My Bombay Kitchen

By Niloufer Ichaporia King

Published 2007

About

Any Parsi reader will want to know why there’s a recipe for date pastries, khajur ni ghari, and none for dar ni pori (a similar fried pastry with a mashed lentil filling), since both are hot teatime favorites. Pure bias. Khajur ni ghari is not only one of the best Parsi pastries, it’s also one that conveys a sense of the ancient food connections stretching from India across the Middle East to Turkey and North Africa.

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