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Tufahija - Bosnian Recipe - Filled Apple

Ingredients:

2 kg Yellow Apples
1/2 kg sugar (for macrobiotic version use Brown Sugar, Barley Malt or Rice Syrup)
1,5 dcl white wine
1,5 dcl water
Juice of 1/2 Lemon
15 dkg of Walnuts
1/2 l of cream (or Soya Cream for macrobiotic or vegan version)

Note: You can make Tufahija from just a few apples with less use of sweetener and other ingredients.

If you are using little pot for cooking, put 1/2 kg of sugar and add 3 dcl of water or if you have wine, then 1,5 dcl of white wine and 1,5 dcl of water. And if you are cooking more apples, then use bigger pot and 1 kg of sugar and water to be about 1 cm above the sugar.

While water is on fire start peeling apples. Don't peal all immediately because it will change color.

 
Remove the middle from apple, with all seeds and little more around. When water starts boiling add lemon juice and put first apples for cooking.
While. u taking care about cooking ones, the same time peal the others and remove middle. Just the number which can be cooked in the pot at the same time.

While apples are cooking use tablespoon to pour water on upper part which is not under water. When lower part become softer turn apples to cook from other side too.

Take care that apple not become too soft, because when u take out apple from cooking water it will continue with softening till not become cold. When u touching apple it should be softer just on outer layer
When all peeling is finished and while cooked apples are cooling, you can grind walnuts. For 2 kg of apples you can need around 15 dkg of walnuts.
When you finish apples cooking , add to walnuts few spoons of water which stayed after cooking. Mix it and add more if it is needed that mixture be smooth and thick.

Mix cream untill become thick.
Add few spoons of cream to walnuts and mix it.  
Fill every apple with little coffee spoon. It should be rich with filling.  
When all apples are filled, decorate with cream.  

Note: For preparing this delicious Tufahija dessert, you can use Golden Delicious Apples or Ida Red. Many kinds of apples cant be cooked in water because they become too soft.  


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