Date Paste: Simple Homemade Sweetener for GAPS

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Homemade Date Paste

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2 Date Paste: Simple Homemade Sweetener for GAPS
2.1 Ingredients
2.2 Instructions
2.3 Recipe Notes
2.4 Learn how to heal leaky gut

Sometimes honey is too overpowering for a recipe, or you can’t find an economical source of honey to use in your baking.  In that case, use date paste! This sweet, slightly fruity, liquid sweetner is a great addition to any of your paleo or GAPS baked goods.

Recipe

Date Paste: Simple Homemade Sweetener for GAPS

Course: Condiment
Cuisine: GAPS, Gluten Free, Paleo, vegan
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes
Servings: 1 .5 cups
Author: Cara Comini
Easy-to-make liquid sweetner can replace honey or maple syrup 1:1 in recipes or be used in place of jam to top coconut flour pancakes, waffles, or baked almond flour pancakes.
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Ingredients

  • 2 cups dates pitted (find here)
  • 1 cup water
  • Juice of 1 lemon

Instructions

  1. Heat water until it's hot.
  2. Remove pits from dates if needed.
  3. Cover dates with warm water and lemon juice (water just needs to be above the dates to allow them all to soak) and allow to soak for 10 minutes or longer.
  4. Drain liquid, but reserve to add as needed when you are pureeing.
  5. Puree all ingredients in a blender or with an immersion blender, adding reserved liquid as needed to form a honey-like consistency that is smooth.
  6. Store covered in the fridge for up to 10 days.

Recipe Notes

When purchasing dates, if you buy them as 'date pieces' or 'chopped dates' watch for added ingredients, like rice flour (not allowed on GAPS). Buying dates pre-pitted makes this recipe even faster. I like these.

 

date paste as a sweetner to use in baked goods and as jam on GAPS

 

This recipe is part of the Grain Free Meal Plans that are in my Gut-Healing Starter Pack- I remind you (and myself- I use these too!) to make this regularly so it’s always on hand for your baked goods and to top your pancakes with.

 

 

See it in a recipe:

Easy Homemade Date Paste - from Health, Home & Happiness

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9 Comments

  1. Meagan on June 7, 2013 at 11:17 pm

    What a simple thing! But I had no idea how to make it before :) Thank you for sharing!!

  2. Jessica on June 8, 2013 at 11:12 am

    What a great idea! I love the you. I can’t wait to try it. Thank you for sharing.

  3. Kaysea on June 8, 2013 at 2:37 pm

    This looks great. What proportions do we use say to replace 1 c. of sugar or 1 c. of oil?

    • Cara on June 8, 2013 at 4:46 pm

      it’s just 1:1 for the sugar, I wouldn’t replace the oil with it.

  4. Blake on September 27, 2013 at 6:14 pm

    Do you think it could be frozen to preserve its shelf life?

  5. Ann on November 12, 2013 at 5:23 pm

    How would you use the paste? The only thing I’ve made with dates is cookie filling.

  6. Kaitlin on March 3, 2018 at 1:12 pm

    Any suggested substitute for the lemon? I can’t do citrus…

    • Cara on March 4, 2018 at 5:23 am

      You can omit it and it won’t change the recipe much at all.

  7. Anne Atkinson on April 23, 2019 at 8:26 pm

    I looked up the carbs in dates the other day & was shocked to find that each had about 5 gms of carbs. How, then, can the Nutritional Facts for the Date Paste be correct, showing
    ZERO CARBS?

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