Iraqi Charoset

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

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.