Quick & simple, 3 ingredients recipe

Dates are extremely good if ate before and after breaking the fast. It works 2 ways, helps in decreasing the hunger pangs and, it’s natural sugars facilitates digestion when you eat after being inactive the whole day

Cooking time-30 mins, Makes-4

Ingredients :

1. 4 Puff Pastry sheets
2. Thick Dates Paste
3. Milk, for brushing

How to prepare Dates Paste Puff-Pastry :

1. Thaw pastry sheets as per instructions
2. Be creative and try to come-up with the desired shapes you want to eat J
3. I am sharing 2 quick ways of preparing it, Flower Shape :
   1. Take 1 sheet & cut into a disc-shape
   2. Put 1 tbsp dates paste in the centre & make a small ball out of it
   3. Roll out the sheet gently avoiding dates paste to leak
   4. With a sharp knife or pizza cutter, cut the outside of this sheet leaving ½ inch gap each, ensuring not to cut through the centre else the sheet will fall apart
   5. Slightly layer those cut strings over each other ensuring the circle doesn’t break, else you can keep as-is
   6. Brush with little milk to get a Golden and crispy texture
4. Another one, Braided shape :
   1. Take a sheet & cut into square
   2. Leaving 2 cm vertically from the middle, make cuts with a pizza cutter at the right & left, from top to bottom
   3. Now add Dates paste vertically in the middle
   4. Start braiding it by overlapping 1 string from right and then another from left, again from right & left… continue until you reach the bottom of the sheet
   5. By doing so you are sealing the paste tightly inside the pastry sheet
   6. Seal the bottom edges with milk
   7. Brush the sheet with Milk for Golden & crisp texture
5. Pre-heat Air-fryer @ 200 degrees for 4 mins
6. Now, place the prepared sheets into Air-fryer
7. Bake @ 200 degrees for 15 mins, until they are puffed and golden
8. Remove and let it cool

How to serve Dates Paste Puff Pastry :

1. Take a serving dish
2. Place the crispy pastry
3. Enjoy with extra Dates Paste