Iraqi Charoset

Iraqi Charoset is a dried fruit and nut based paste served during the Jewish celebration of Passover by Jews from Iraq.

Ingredients

 * 500 ml. Iraqi dates, chopped and seeded
 * water
 * salt
 * 125 ml. chopped walnuts or pistachios

Directions
1.Boil dates in lightly salted water stirring frequently until it is a thick paste.

2.Mix in finely chopped nuts.

3.A traditional variant is to strain the pulp out of the paste producing a honey-like date syrup. This procedure uses considerably more dates and can take several days to produce sufficient syrup.

Source

 * Iraqi Charoset from the Wikibooks Cookbook—original source of recipe, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License