Rice with Almonds and Dates

Ingredients

• 1 cup rice
• just cooked
• 50 g butter
• 50 g almonds
• blanched and halved
• 8 dates
• stoned (they should be fresh
• but dried ones will do
• if plump)
• 50 g sultanas
• 1 teaspoon rose water (but this can be omitted)

Instructions

1. While the rice is standing, after cooking, melt the butter in a frying pan.
2. Add the almonds, stirring until they turn golden.
3. Now add the dates and sultanas, and cook, stirring, for a few more minutes.
4. Remove from the stove and mix in the rose water, if used.
5. Pile the rice on a dish and arrange the mixture on top of it.