Lebanese Semolina Date Cookies

Here’s a recipe that may or may not make it into the low histamine non-gluten free dessert recipe book. To be made correctly it really needs some butter. You could use vegetable shortening, but I’m not really in love with either health-wise. My results with oil weren’t as good. I would only make these once in a very blue moon because of the wheat and butter. I’m also on the fence about the dates. I can eat them, but generally not with other higher histamine ingredients. Having said all that, they’re really delicious, but please be aware that they are not as low histamine as my other recipes. Omit the agave or sub with a little apple juice for a lower histamine dessert.

It’s such a challenge finding low histamine desserts suitable for those of us with histamine related disorders and I sometimes wonder if I’m being too militant in what I classify to be low histamine. There’s no way you’d find anything lower histamine dessert-wise than my recipes in a store, but I would never buy a dessert from a store anyway! Please leave me a comment to let me know if you think this recipe is low histamine enough to make it into a non-gluten free low histamine dessert recipe book.

Lebanese Semolina Date Cookies

Ingredients:

1/2 cup semolina

1/2 cup flour

1 tbsp agave

1/4 cup butter or oil

Filling

1/4 cup medjool dates, pitted

1 tbsp water

1 tbsp butter/oil

Combine the semolina, flour, agave and the soft butter to make a smooth dough. Leave it in the fridge while you…

Combine the dates, water and 1 tbsp oil in a saucepan over low heat. Cook for 10 minutes or until dates soften.

Preheat oven to 350F/180C. Oil a mini muffin tray (or similar mould) and spoon the mix into each muffin hole till halfway full. Press firmly into the mould. Use your thumb to create a little depression to spoon the date mixture into. Cover with more semolina mixture.

Then bake in oven for 10 minutes or until golden.
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4 responses to “Lebanese Semolina Date Cookies”

Lynn

May 1, 2013

I’m new to your site. The first two recipes I received contained dates. This one for Lebanese cookies and a granola recipe. All the literature I’ve read said dates were a high histamine food. Could you please clarify this for me.
Lynn

May 1, 2013

I’m new to your site. The first two recipes I received contained dates. This one for Lebanese cookies and a granola recipe. All the literature I’ve read said dates were a high histamine food. Could you please clarify this for me.
thelowhistaminechef

May 8, 2013

Hi Lynn, it depends on which list you follow. Dates are allowed on Dr Fuhrman’s list, the one I was given by the practitioner who diagnosed me and that of http://www.histaminintoleranz.ch/einleitung.html which is quite comprehensive. Dates are anti-inflammatory and have a better nutritional profile than agave. I eat with intent, so I use as many high nutrient foods as possible. Like I always say, there are so many lists and we are all so different and will react to foods in many ways depending on the day it’s ingested, so following someone else’s list is impossible. Testing foods and creating my own list as well as being prepared to put up with small reactions because of a food’s nutritional profile is ok with me. And it seems to be working. I certainly wasn’t this healthy when following other lists…
thelowhistaminechef

May 8, 2013

Hi Lynn, it depends on which list you follow. Dates are allowed on Dr Fuhrman’s list, the one I was given by the practitioner who diagnosed me and that of http://www.histaminintoleranz.ch/einleitung.html which is quite comprehensive. Dates are anti-inflammatory and have a better nutritional profile than agave. I eat with intent, so I use as many high nutrient foods as possible. Like I always say, there are so many lists and we are all so different and will react to foods in many ways depending on the day it’s ingested, so following someone else’s list is impossible. Testing foods and creating my own list as well as being prepared to put up with small reactions because of a food’s nutritional profile is ok with me. And it seems to be working. I certainly wasn’t this healthy when following other lists…

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