Cardamom & Red Wine Poached Dates With Orange Blossom Yoghurt

• Dates
• 16 Big Fat Pitted Dates
• 16 Almonds toasted..skin off (though mine were skin on)
• 1.5 Cups Spicy Fruit Red wine
• 5 Green Cardamom Pods, crushed
• 3" Chunk of ginger, cut into matchsticks
• 4 Black Pepper Corns
• 1/2 a vanilla pod, this is a good place to use a vanilla pod husk
• Orange Blossom Yogurt
• 2 cups Greek yogurt
• 2 tablespoons Orange Blossom Honey
• teensy tiny drop orange blossom water
• 1 tsp Ground cardamom
• 2 tablespoons tangerine juice (or orange or mandarin)
• 2 teaspoons tangerine zest (or orange or mandarin)

1. Find the hole where the date pit was removed and jam an almond in there
2. Toast cardamom pods, vanilla & peppercorns lightly in pot with lid over low heat.
3. Raise heat to medium and add Ginger & Wine
4. Let wine get up to a simmer
5. Add dates, cover pot, lower heat and simmer for 20 min. Turn off heat, let sit another 30.
6. Remove dates from liquid
7. Strain liquid & reduce slightly
8. Serve with dollop of yogurt on the side a a drizzle of reserved liquid. (extra liquid is yum used as an add-in for an exotic sangria or a marinade for lamb or duck)
9. Mix it all together... taste, add more orange blossom water if you;'d like. It should be a romantic hint in the back ground, too much and you risk this tasting more like a face mask and less like exotic yogurt
10. You may have some left over yogurt.. fab with Whole Foods Ginger/Cashew Granola or as a base for a Pineapple or Papaya Smoothie

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Taken from food52.com/recipes/9339-cardamom-red-wine-poached-dates-with-orange-blossom-yoghurt (may not work)