Parmesan-Stuffed Dates Recipe-February 2024-www.zdask.com

　　Active Time

　　5 minutes

　　Total Time

　　5 minutes

　　Editor's note: This recipe is from Erika Lenkert's book, The Last-Minute Party Girl: Fashionable, Fearless, and Foolishly Simple Entertaining For Lenkert's tips on throwing a last-minute New Year's Eve party, click here.

　　A luscious combination of salty and sweet, these pop-in-your-mouth morsels look especially pretty when arranged on a platter and sprinkled with chopped parsley.

Ingredients

Makes 4 servings

　　16 dates

　　1/4-pound hunk of good-quality Parmesan

　　A little good-quality olive oil and arugula leaves or parsley sprigs if you want to be fancy

Step 1

Cut a slit in each date and remove the pit.

Step 2

With a dull knife cut random hunks of Parmesan (slightly larger than the size of an almond) off your block of cheese.

Step 3

Slip a piece of cheese into each date; if desired, garnish with olive oil and arugula or parsley.

　　Reprinted with permission from The Last-Minute Party Girl: Fashionable, Fearless, and Foolishly Simple Entertaining by Erika Lenkert. © May 2003 McGraw-Hill