What can you bake with dates. Dried dates - famous fruits with a thousand-year history

14.10.2021 -

Delicious recipes with dates for weight loss

Dates are a unique product that helps to safely lose weight and at the same time eliminate the lack of vitamins and minerals in our body. There are legends about these dried fruits, and in real life they come up with various dishes and diets. How to use dates to lose weight? Do dates bring benefits or harm to people who want to lose weight? Let's deal with this together.

Dates: the benefits and harms of losing weight

World-famous nutritionists recommend including dates in the diet. They restore strength, are perfectly absorbed by the body, and most importantly, do not turn into fat. This product contains proteins, carbohydrates, fiber, as well as mass. More on this in a previous article.

The undoubted benefits of dates:

enrich the body with useful microelements, substances and vitamins;
give energy for physical activity, sports, strengthen the heart;
with them you can go on a diet without giving up sweets;
cheer up and improve well-being;
allow you to satisfy the feeling of hunger.

Due to the high sweetness of the product, it may seem that this is not the right fruit to eat to lose weight. In fact, there are recipes for dishes with dates and certain rules for their use that help to lose weight. But first, let's find out: who is recommended to use dates?

First of all, this dried fruit is the choice of people with a slow metabolism, nursing mothers, pregnant women and everyone who is on a diet. And especially those who want to lose weight in the autumn, winter or spring periods. It is recommended to use this product for everyone who loves fatty foods and meat. For people with a fast metabolism, it is also suitable, the main thing is to eat it in the right combination with other products. So, we figured out the benefits of dates, but who will they harm when losing weight?

Who shouldn't eat dates? Men and women suffering from diarrhea, acute pancreatitis, intestinal infection. Allergy sufferers need to gradually introduce these fruits into the diet. Also, with caution, this product should be added to your diet by diabetics and people taking any medications. In this case, consult a doctor to avoid complications.

Date diet for weight loss

There are several ways to lose weight with dates. Fans of a rigid starvation diet can eat only these dried fruits for 10 days. It is allowed to add green apples, a lot of plain clean water and green tea to this diet. Dates are a low-calorie product, one piece contains only 23 kcal. Eating in this way, the body receives a full range of vitamins and minerals, glucose, protein and carbohydrates necessary for life.

You can eat dates with a diet, as well as in unlimited quantities. The date diet for weight loss will help get rid of 7 kg of excess weight and reviews confirm this fact. The first 4 days they eat only dried fruits and drink water. On day 5, green apples up to 1 kg are added to the diet. From the 7th day you can drink green tea.

It takes a lot of effort and patience to endure the date diet, most often people simply added dishes with dates to their diet and lost weight. True, they managed to lose only 4-5 kg instead of 7 kg, but this is also an excellent result. Moreover, in this case, you can eat fully, and not test your willpower. There are several recipes that give good saturation and the ability to say goodbye to the hated body fat. The advantage of such a diet: after it, people give up their addiction to chocolate, sweets, sweets and flour delicacies.

Milk diet with dates

This is a strict diet on dates and milk applicable for fasting days. It is allowed to eat only milk and dates in unlimited quantities. Milk helps the body absorb nutrients and trace elements contained in dates. For a week of such a diet, it is possible to get rid of extra 5 kg of weight. It is optimal to arrange such a diet in this way: 5 days of milk with dates plus green tea or coffee without sugar. 10 days break. 5 days milk-date diet. Thus, you will quickly lose weight and improve your body.

Dates: Recipes

Salad of dates with nuts

Dried fruits (10-15 pieces) free from stones and cut into small pieces. Add a handful of chopped chopped nuts. It can be pine nuts, almonds or hazelnuts. Add a teaspoon of minced ginger and a tablespoon of honey. You can grind all the ingredients in a blender or grind in a meat grinder. As a result, you will get a tasty and healthy pasta that can be put on whole grain bread and eaten for breakfast.

Salad with dates and carrots for weight loss

Prepare 2 carrots, peel and grate them on a fine or medium grater. Free the dates from the pits, cut into small pieces. Mix with carrots, season with honey or olive oil. This salad works like a brush for the intestines, removes toxins and enriches the body with vitamins.

Oatmeal with dates

Useful and effective recipe for losing weight. Oatmeal with dates will help organize proper nutrition and lose weight. And in combination with her equal - no! For porridge you will need:

1 glass of oatmeal;
2 glasses of milk;
10-15 pieces of dates (can be pitted and cut into pieces);
1 teaspoon flaxseed or flour
2 teaspoons of honey;
A few grains of peanuts (optional)

Oat flakes are mixed with flaxseed flour, poured with milk. Put the pan on the fire and cook for 10 minutes, do not forget to stir. Add dates 5-7 minutes after boiling. Serve with honey and crushed peanuts. You can eat this porridge for breakfast or dinner. It energizes and creates a feeling of satiety for a long time.
Compote for weight loss from dates

Take a few 15 pieces of dates, add to them a handful of cranberries, apricots, prunes and raisins. Pour 2-3 liters of hot water. Boil and leave to infuse for 30 minutes. A delicious and terribly healthy drink is ready! Cranberries can be replaced with lemon, sour fruits and berries are needed to make the drink more tasty and give a little sourness. Also, apricots are replaced with dried apricots.

You can drink it as many times as you feel hungry. And also in the morning on an empty stomach, before dinner and in the evening before going to bed. Dates for a diet are a good remedy for those who do not eat after 18-19 pm, but want to have something to eat. So that your body does not get dependent on food and does not experience stress, cook yourself such a healthy compote and lose weight with pleasure.

Be slim, healthy and happy!

Dates have long been a symbol of abundance and fertility. They contain a lot of carbohydrates, so they can easily provide the human body with vitality and incredible energy for the whole day. This fruit is considered an excellent delicacy for both adults and even very young children.

They contain more than twenty amino acids that are useful to humans. They also contain many vitamins and minerals. Date improves brain function, reduces the risk of developing diseases and has a good effect on the heart system, excellent help with an exacerbated cough. Due to their high calorie content, these fruits are not always included in the diet during balanced diets, but we are not talking about this now ... We will not get fat from a one-time intake of excess dates “per capita”. However, eating them in large quantities can also get boring. So, if you decide to include them in your daily diet, then you should find out what can be prepared from dates to diversify your menu.

Lemon pancakes with dates

Ingredients:

Dates - 400 grams;
lemon - 2 pcs.;
chicken egg - 2 pcs.;
flour - 8 tbsp. spoons;
sugar - 4 tbsp. spoons;
powder - 3 tbsp. spoons;
butter;
syrup - 3 tbsp. spoons;
salt - a quarter of a teaspoon.

1. Rinse the dates, cut them in half and remove the pits. Wash the lemons, cut into halves and squeeze the juice into a separate bowl. Remove the zest from the citrus fruits and finely chop it. Sift the flour and gently melt the butter.

2. Lightly beat eggs, add salt, butter and sugar. Then pour in 3 tablespoons of lemon juice, a few tablespoons of lemon zest, flour and mix everything thoroughly. Then slowly add water and beat gently. The dough must be kept for 15 minutes at room temperature. Pass the pulp of the processed dates through a meat grinder with lemon juice, the remaining zest, fruit syrup. Mix the ingredients well.

3. Fry the pancakes in a well-heated pan on one side. Put the prepared filling on the fried part, wrap it with an envelope and fry until a beautiful and very crispy golden crust.

Just before serving the cooked dish, pour pancakes with not very hot melted butter, sprinkle with a small amount of sweet powdered sugar.

Exotic dates are a useful product, but can cause severe allergies. Therefore, the use of lemon pancakes with this fruit should be reduced to small children. This will not be so easy, because pancakes are not perceived as a dessert. And here is an example of my favorite date dish - the recipe for date balls. They are perceived as sweet, therefore it is much easier to explain to children that you can’t eat a lot of them.

date balls

Ingredients:

Dates - 400 grams;
liquid honey - 60 grams;
walnuts - 200 grams;
add sesame seeds to taste.

Step by step cooking:

1. Rinse the dates thoroughly and remove all seeds.

2. To prepare the right and tasty date balls, you need to pass all the ingredients through a meat grinder. Chop the dates first, then the walnuts. Add liquid honey and mix thoroughly until the mass is completely homogeneous.

3. Pour sesame seeds into a separate plate. From the prepared sweet mixture, roll up small balls - the size of quail eggs. Each of the balls must be rolled in sesame seeds.

You can easily use shredded coconut instead of sesame seeds to cook date balls properly.

Toffee pudding

Ingredients:

Dates - 100 grams;
dried fruits - 50 grams;
a little soda;
brown sugar - 150 grams;
butter - 225 grams;
pancake flour - 150 grams;
chicken egg - 2 pcs.;
sour cream - 6 tbsp. spoons.

Step by step cooking:

1. Finely chop dried fruits and dates. Put all the butter on the kitchen table for maximum softening. Sift flour carefully.

2. Lubricate the microwave molds with butter. In a container convenient for you, mix dried fruits with soda and pour the mixture with an incomplete glass of boiling water. This mass must be infused for several hours.

3. Beat 150 g of sugar and literally 75 g of butter until a good foam, then add the sifted flour, beat in the chicken eggs.

4. Drain the dried fruits and add them to the mass. Mix the dough, pour into all molds for the microwave.

5. The pudding must be baked for 3 minutes, and then let it stand for literally 5 minutes - during this minimum time it will harden a little.

6. Next, you need to prepare the sauce for the pudding. Mix the sour cream, the remaining butter and sugar, pour the resulting mixture into a microwave container and place in your oven for about three minutes. Stir in the prepared sauce.

7. Pudding is served warm. Drizzle with delicious sauce first. The dish goes well with a cup of English tea. You can decorate the sweetness with cream, mint leaves, and also put a ball of ice cream next to it.

You can make pudding without a microwave. To do this, you will need to cook it for 40-50 minutes at 200 degrees. In this case, it is recommended to cook the sauce on a regular stove to the density you need, but not for very long, as it can certainly turn into a full caramel, which is not suitable for this most delicate dessert.

This, of course, is not all dishes that include dates, recipes with their use are much more extensive. Compotes, salads, sweets are prepared with them. We will also talk about this sometime.

Dried and dried fruits are healthier than raw ones. If you dry the dates, stock them up for the winter, it will be a storehouse of vitamins B5, E, H, as well as substances like aspirin, which eliminate the symptoms of a cold, headache, and increase efficiency.

In the question of how dates are dried, you need to follow the recommendations of the chefs.

Harvesting and industrial drying

From each date palm, from 100 to 250 kg is obtained. harvest per year. Having collected the fruits, they are scattered on the ground, where they dry naturally under the rays of the scorching sun. To keep them longer, before putting them in a container, you should bury them in hot sand, leaving the dates to dry for several days.

After the drying process, the dates are washed. The bones are removed from each fruit by hand. Dates are sorted, processed and packed.

How to dry sweet products in an unnatural way is not familiar to everyone. To do this, use the oven. Dried fruits are treated with sulfur to repel insects. To make the dates sweeter, you will need to preserve them using glucose syrup. Dried fruits prepared by this method have an unnatural sheen. Natural dates that do not have additives have a matte skin, they are soft to the touch.

Naturally dried fruits have a sticky surface that is easy for germs and bacteria to stick to. Therefore, it is impossible for dried fruit to remain in an open container for a long time or to be scattered in the open air. Before eating dates, they are washed in boiled water. Dried fruits treated with chemicals must be soaked in hot water, changing it more than once, until the oily stains on the surface of the liquid completely disappear.

Dates are low in calories. This dietary product can be divided into 3 groups: dry date, semi-dry and juicy. Dry fruits are the most useful, they are antioxidants and anti-radicals. They are easier and faster to dry for storage. It is better to use dried fruit cut in half, get rid of the stone and see if there are any lesions by the date moth and the eggs laid by it.

Store dates in a container with a tightly closed lid on a refrigerator shelf. They can stay for a whole year. In the freezer, you can keep dried fruit for 5 years.

Selection of dates

You can enjoy fresh palm fruits in Israel, Algeria, Egypt, etc. In our country, they sell frozen, dried and dried products.

Fresh dates have a thick, glossy skin with a yellow, orange, or red tint. It tastes like a juicy and sweet fruit without cloying. The pulp of a fruit plucked from a palm tree is crispy, like a persimmon. The bone is difficult to extract. The unripe fruit has a gray color with a greenish tinge, a waxy coating and an astringent aftertaste.

Dried dates have a different color, uniform and rich brown. The fruits have a neat rounded shape. Cracks and wrinkles on the peel are not present. The fruit is dry but slightly sticky to the touch. A quality product does not form into lumps. The softness of the pulp is medium. Low juiciness. Dried date pits are easy to remove.

If the dates are dried without the use of chemicals, the skin of the dried fruit will be intact, dry and slightly translucent. A slight stickiness indicates the natural release of sugar.

Home drying

At home, you can dry fruits for a long time, putting them in a shady place, they will be soft. When dried in the sun for a long time, the dates will become harder. Producers have different ways to quickly process fruit. If the harvest takes place earlier than expected, it is enough to bathe the dates in a solution of inedible caustic soda, which is in a boiling state. From this, cracks will go along the thick peel, it will be possible to dry the dates sooner. But the juiciness of the fruit will decrease; through the cracks, the fruit can become infected with bacteria.

Not every production uses the natural drying method. For the mechanical method, the oven will go. After drying, fumigate with sulfur dioxide. With the destruction of bacteria, there will be no harmful insects and the product will be stored for a long time.

Differences of dates, which were dried naturally and with the help of an oven, are clearly visible on the skin. If it cracks all over the fruit or peels off, this indicates work with a drying chamber or a high temperature oven. A minimal and almost imperceptible number of cracks on the skin can appear if the fruits are dried under the hot rays of the sun. To preserve the presentation, dried fruits are treated with oil products, liquid smoke, and the fruits are also coated in glycerin, palm fat. You can distinguish a chemically processed product by the intense shine of the skin.

I'm more and more fascinated with dates - how wonderful they are in baking!

Compound:

500 g pitted dates
300 g flour
100 g butter
100 g sour cream
100 g sugar
juice of half a lemon
1 teaspoon of soda
a pinch of salt

How to cook cookies with dates - recipe:

We take the butter out of the refrigerator in advance and let it soften.
Mix butter, sour cream and sugar and grind until smooth.

Grind butter with sugar and sour cream
We survive the juice from half a lemon.
Add soda to juice and mix well. A violent reaction begins, we observe and enjoy the wonders of chemistry. Add a pinch of salt.
Mix the flour with the resulting mixtures. Knead the dough for a short time until smooth. The dough will be a little sticky to your hands, but after the cold will become more pliable. But after baking, the cookies will be very tender.
kneading the dough
So, wrap the dough in cling film and send it to the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes.
We put in the refrigerator
Meanwhile, prepare the date paste. Soak dates in water for 10 minutes.
Soaking dates
Separate the pulp of the dates from the pits and scroll through a meat grinder until a homogeneous puree. You can also grind in a blender, but through a meat grinder it turns out better and faster.
Grind into puree
When the dough has cooled a little and becomes more docile, we take it out of the refrigerator and divide it into two equal parts.
Dividing the Dough
Roll out each of the parts into a rectangle measuring 30 × 20 cm, about 5 mm thick.
Put one piece on a baking sheet. Spread the date filling evenly on top.
We spread the stuffing from dates on one part
Then cover the filling with the second part of the dough.
Cover with the second part
Cut off the rest of the dough (if any) so that you get an even rectangle.
We make even cuts along and across the rectangle, shaping the cookies. Since I wanted to completely repeat the store masterpiece, I cut it into rectangles.
Making cuts
We send the baking sheet to the oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 20 minutes.
Put in the oven to bake
We cool the finished cookies with dates and sort them into plates according to the cuts.
Cookies with dates are ready