Diabetes is a disease that puts you on guard with your diet regimen. It may be quite difficult for those who love sweets to deal with a disease like this. Effective lifestyle management is the key to managing this disease. You can however, continue eating your favorite sweets and foods by just learning new methods of preparing the sweet dishes. There are however very tasty, sumptuous, healthy and low caloric sweets that can be made in a jiffy to satisfy your sweet tooth. I’m going to provide you with a delicious recipe known as “Dates and Cashew Balls”. This diabetic dessert is healthy, low caloric and can be made in less than 15 minutes.

Ingredients: Dates, Cashews, Almonds, Honey.

Method:

Take one cup of fresh dates and chop them into fine pieces. Place a saucepan on heat, simmer flame and add 2 -3 spoons of fresh ghee. Once the ghee is heated, add the date pieces into the pan and stir fry till the dates become soft and mushy. You can add 4-5 tablespoons of honey to the dates depending on your sweet preference. In a separate pan, heat oil and add cashews and almonds to it and fry them golden brown. Add the roasted nuts to the date and honey mixture and stir fry for 2-3 minutes. Remove the pan from the flame and let the mixture cool for 5 minutes. Now take small portions of the mixture on to your hand and make them into balls by rolling it onto your palms. Thus, the yummy and sumptuous, low caloric “Date and cashew balls” is ready for you to relish.

The number of servings depends on the quantity of dates used for this diabetic dessert. This sweet is relished by kids and adults alike and is extremely good for health. The nutritional benefits of honey and dates cannot be dispensed with.

Nuts are beneficial for all round developments of youngsters and kids. This diabetic dessert is widely acclaimed by one and all. Moreover it is a simple process and you don’t have to add any artificial sweeteners to it. Dates and honey used in this dessert serve as natural sweeteners and are absolutely harmless to diabetics. Almonds may be used as an alternative to cashews as well. When roasted almonds are crunchy and are tasty to chew. Try out this recipe now and win the hearts of your loved ones!.

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