Rice with Almonds and Dates

Description

This is one of our favorites, just watch everyone fight over the almonds.

Ingredients

• 1 cup rice, just cooked

• 50 g butter

• 50 g almonds, blanched and halved

• 8 dates, stoned (they should be fresh, but dried ones will do, if plump)

• 50 g Sultanas

• 1 teaspoon rose water (but this can be omitted)

Directions

• While the rice is standing, after cooking, melt the butter in a frying pan.

• Add the almonds, stirring until they turn golden.

• Now add the dates and Sultanas, and cook, stirring, for a few more minutes.

• Remove from the stove and mix in the rose water, if used.

• Pile the rice on a dish and arrange the mixture on top of it.