Dates Ladoos

INGREDIENTS:
Makes about:15
1-2 tablespoon Ghee
10-15 Cashews
1 cup Dates
1 cup Milk
1/4 cup Sugar

PROCEDURE:
1. Fry the cashew nuts in ghee until they turns golden brown, keep aside.
2. Heat milk using microwave or stove top. Keep the dates immersed for 15 minutes. Once the dates are soft grind to smooth paste along with milk.
3. In a heavy bottom non stick pan, cook the dates paste and sugar until its turns as thick paste, add the ghee and the roasted cashew nuts, stir continuously.
4. This paste will get off from the bottom of the pan after few minutes, immediately pour this halwa in a greased pan.
5. Grease your hands, make equal sized balls once the mixture cools down.

NOTES:
1. The original recipe is here. I could not make the pieces like in here out of the soft, sticky dates mixture; so made it ladoos.
2. This recipe is in remembrance with first potluck of Mommies of Building 8 (Pinky, Raji, Vadivu, Ashwini N me), Granite point, Sacramento, CA.