Minis, Flavour of the month – Dry Fruit Minis

By Vanita, August 5, 2013

I miss one of my best friends today – Anita. She was a colleague, then a boss, then a best friend, and a sister… Food always excited her and my love for food is obvious! Sometimes, motivation is our fuel for challenges! Every day during lunch, we discussed many ideas: some that was related to our job, a retirement plan for those in the 30’s! The 30’s retirement plan was termed ‘flavour of the month’, because invariably we found loopholes in our plan month after month.

This recipe is originally from my MIL and she only described the dish to me as she had forgotten the recipe. What I do understand is that the original recipe is extremely rich. I have modified this recipe so that I can binge on it.

Makes 24

Equipment: Mini muffin pan

For the crust

• 1 cup Maida
• 1 cup Whole Wheat Flour
• 3 tablespoon butter
• 1/4 cup oil (canola or sunflower)
• A pinch of salt
• Cold water to bind

For the filling

• 1 1/4 cup mixed dried fruit (almonds, pistachios, dates and figs)
• 1/4 cup coarse brown sugar
• 1/2 cup grated copra

Lining the muffin pan

• Pre heat oven to gas mark 4
• To make the crust, mix all the ingredients, make it in to a ball and chill for 15 minutes
• Roll out like a roti and cut with a round cookie cutter (size right enough to line your muffin pan). You can use whole wheat flour for rolling out.
• Place the cut rotis in the muffin pan

Preparing the filling

• Use the small jar of the mixer. The dry fruit mixture should be crumbly (do not powder)
• Mix sugar and grated copra
• The filling is ready