The Paste

1 cup dried figs
1 cup raisins
1 cup pitted medjool dates
1 cup almonds
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon cardamon
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoon allspice
3 tablespoons pomegranate juice

Mix it all up in a food processor. The city if a river port city, and all these commodities came up from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea.

This is the best addition I've had to our sedar table in a long time. They're so beautiful and easy to make, they were a big hit!

Yemenite Charoset

1/2 cup dried apricots, chopped
1/2 cup dates, chopped
3 tb dry wine
juice of 1/2 lime
2 tb honey
1 tsp. ground ginger
1/4 tsp. black pepper
1/4 tsp. Cumin
1/4 tsp. Cloves
pinch of coriander
1 small red chili pepper, seeded and minced

The recipe also calls for 3 tb of toasted sesame seeds. Sephardim who eat kitniyot (legumes) on Pesach may add this ingredient; Ashkenazim should not.

Combine and refrigerate.

How about grape juice?

My new husband does not drink alcohol. What can be substituted for Wine?

Needed this for R.E exam

Is there a recipe for charoses that doen't use any nuts--one of our family is allergic.

Iraqi Jews make a very special charoset, it is made from dates, indirectly - dates are washed and then soaked overnight and then this mash is boiled once and then strained through a new clean cloth once all the liquid is collected the mash is discarded and the liquid is boiled down until it form a thick syrup. Nothing is added until it is mixed with ground or finely chopped walnuts. The date syrup is called silan and is then know as haleq when mixed with the walnuts. The flavour when eaten with any matzah but especially shumurah matzah is something that even the child look forward to every year. This recipe was given to me by my husband's grandmother and I make every year for the family.

Seems I've had this with dates and other ingredients, but I'm not Jewish. Are there other allowable ingredients that can be included in the recipe?