About this dish
A sweet date and semolina dessert, dense and lightly spiced with cardamom.
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Ingredients
🌴2 cups dates, pitted and chopped
🌾1.5 cups roasted semolina flour
🧈1/2 cup ghee
🌿1 tsp ground cardamom
Method
Serves 21
Warm the ghee and stir in the roasted semolina flour.2
Cook until fragrant, then mix in the chopped dates.3
Add cardamom and continue cooking until well combined into a dense paste.4
Press the mixture into a flat tray.5
Cool, then cut into squares to serve.✓ What Makes it Authentic
Bathitha is a traditional Emirati sweet, valued for its use of dates, a staple crop of the region.
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