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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Greek >> Greek

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. | 2. Butter pan lightly. | 3. CRUST: | 4. Cream butter and sugar together. | 5. Add vanilla and egg, beat for 2 minutes with electric beater on medium. | 6. Slowly add flour and mix well. | 7. Stir in pistachios. | 8. Press into tart pan and up sides. I had about 1/2 cup too much and just put into muffin tins. | 9. FILLING: | 10. Using a medium pan, put in 1 cup orange juice, 1 cup water and 1 tablespoon butter. | 11. Bring just to boil and stir in couscous. | 12. Cover, remove from heat for 5 minutes. Put in large bowl, fluff up with a fork, and allow to cool. | 13. Remove seeds from dates. | 14. Put dates in small pan and cover with 1 cup orange juice and 1 cup water. | 15. Simmer for 20 minutes, drain, remove any loose skins, allow to cool, chop fine (or mash), put in separate bowl. | 16. Add brown sugar, cinnamon, eggs and yogurt. | 17. Mix corn starch in cream and add to bowl. | 18. Mix all together until well blended. | 19. Pour into couscous and mix well. | 20. Stir in strawberries. | 21. Pour into crust and bake for 20 - 25 minutes, until crust is golden brown. | 22. Sprinkle top with chocolate and bake another 5 minutes. | 23. Cool and refrigerate. | 24. Serve cold. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
butter	1/2	cup		85.5	3.9285	2.6715	7.2
sugar	3/4	cup	powdered	350.1	89.79299999999999	0.0	0.0
vanilla	1/2	teaspoon		6.047999999999999	0.2656	0.0013	0.0013
egg	1/2			35.75	0.18	3.14	2.3775
purpose flour	1 1/4	1/4		-	-	-	-
pistachio	1/4	cup	chopped	172.2	8.3548	6.1992	13.9359
orange juice	2	cups	divided	223.2	51.583999999999996	3.472	0.992
water	2	cups	divided	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
butter	1	tablespoon		85.5	3.9285	2.6715	7.2
couscous	1	box		-	-	-	-
date	15			6218.1	1654.4115	54.0225	8.5995
brown sugar	1	tablespoon		34.2	8.8281	0.0108	0.0
cinnamon	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
egg	3			35.75	0.18	3.14	2.3775
plain yogurt	1/4	cup		-	-	-	-
heavy cream	1/4	cup		102.0	0.8220000000000001	0.852	10.824000000000002
cornstarch	1	tablespoon		30.48	7.3016	0.0208	0.004
strawberry	2	cups	chopped	97.28	23.3472	2.0368	0.912
chocolate	2	tablespoons	bittersweet ground chopped	17.6175	2.8765	0.6257	0.4374

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.