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Sticky toffee carrot cake pudding

30 minutes ¾ cup hot rooibos tea

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Frikkadel-and-butter bean tagine soup

25 minutes

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Dried fruit atchar

5 minutes

Cooking with

Cape brandy pudding

40–50 minutes

Meringue recipes

Date-and-pistachio torte

1 hour

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Overnight oats for Suhoor

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Date smoothie for Suhoor

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Breakfast bars

25 minutes

Ice cream

Refined-sugar free pistachio-tahini date ice cream

Diwali recipes

Cheese-and-sweetcorn samoosas

90 minutes

Brinjal recipes

Baked brinjals

35–40 minutes

Bread recipes

Chocolate zucchini bread

50 minutes

Chocolate zucchini bread

Serves 1 x 22 cm loaf

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cooking Time 50 minutes

Ingredients

For the date butter:

150 g butter, softened
80 g dates, pitted and roughly chopped
1 T maple syrup

For the batter:

200 g dates, pitted and roughly chopped
500 g baby marrow, finely grated
250 g flour
80 g cocoa powder
1½ t bicarbonate of soda
1 t instant coffee
½ t baking powder
250 g dark chocolate, roughly chopped
4 free-range eggs
½ cup canola oil
2 t vanilla extract
120 g double-thick plain yoghurt

Method

1. To make the date butter, blend all the ingredients, then chill until ready to use.

2. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Soak the dates in 1/2 cup of boiling water for 10 minutes.

3. Place baby marrow on kitchen towel to drain. Mix the flour, cocoa powder, bicarbonate of, baking powder, coffee and chocolate in a large bowl.

4. Blend the dates until smooth, adding more water if necessary.

5. In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, oil, vanilla, yoghurt and date paste.

6. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients with the baby marrow and stir until fully incorporated.

7. Spoon the batter into 22 x 11 cm greased and lined loaf tin and bake for 50 minutes or until cooked through. Allow bread to cool and serve with the date butter.

Find more bread recipes here.

Photograph: @Sadiqah Assur-Ismail

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