Fresh Dates Stuffed with Blue Cheese

Sweet fresh dates filled with a little savoury blue cheese.

  1. Make a slit along one side of each date and ease out the stone.
  2. Push a small piece of blue cheese into each date.
  3. Grind over a little black pepper if you like and serve at room temperature.

A halal adaptation inspired by Jules Clancy’s Stonesoup: 5 Ingredients | 10 Minutes (2010) · Photo: Joy, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stuffed_dates.jpg)