Fresh sour apples are a source of vitamins and minerals. With them you can cook various hot dishes, salads, as well as bake, they are a good filling for pies. In addition, sour apples are dried, they make jam, vinegar.
Dishes with fresh sour apples
The addition of sour apples gives a special flavor to pork, chicken (or other poultry) dishes. It's good to cook duck with them, as the poultry meat is saturated with the aroma of apples, which are usually placed inside the carcass and baked.
Not everyone loves liver dishes, but it turns out to be incredibly tasty when made with sour apples. It is better to pre-soak the liver in milk for about an hour. Then cut into pieces and fry. The next step is to cut the sour apples, remove the seeds and fry the apples in butter, set aside, then fry the onions cut into rings in the same oil. Lay out the liver on a platter, onion on top, and apples on top of the onion.
Sour apples can be soaked. To do this, you must first wash them, then sprinkle with spices and pour brine from water, salt and sugar.
Salt and sugar must be taken in equal proportions.
Sour apple salad recipes
Apples are added to many salads in which vegetables, meat, or seafood are the main ingredient.
Boil the beets, grate them and 1 sour apple on a coarse grater, add a little chopped or crushed nuts. Season with mayonnaise. You can replace grated apple and mayonnaise with vegetable oil and sour apple vinegar.
Grate fresh carrots on a fine grater, a radish and a sour apple on a coarse grater, salt and season with sour cream.
Finely chop the boiled chicken breast, celery, 1-2 sour apples, pickled gherkins or capers, season with mayonnaise. Chicken can be substituted with ham.
The grated sour apple will make the salad like "Olivier" spicy.
Sour apple pies and blanks
Wash, chop sour apples, remove seeds, put in a large saucepan, cover with sugar at the rate of 300 g of sugar per 1 kg of apples. Put on the stove, bring to a boil, cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Expand quickly in sterilized dry jars, roll up with sterile lids and turn upside down. The blank can be simply eaten as jam or added to hot dishes - meat, poultry - as you like.
It is good to dry sour apples for the winter, then make compotes from them or just eat.
A pie is quickly prepared from sour apples, it can be baked even before the arrival of guests, if all the products are available at home.
Charlotte recipe
Ingredients:
- 0.5 kg of apples;
- 3 medium eggs;
- ¾ glass of sugar and ¼ glass of sugar for apples;
- cinnamon;
- ¾ a glass of flour.
- baking sheet with a diameter of 25 cm.
Grease the bottom of the baking sheet and sides with oil, sprinkle with flour (or ground breadcrumbs). Wash the apples, peel and remove the seeds, cut into thin slices and place on the bottom of the baking sheet. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Beat eggs with sugar with a mixer, add sifted flour and
stir gently. Pour the resulting liquid biscuit dough over the apples so that they are all covered with the dough.
Place in a hot oven. After five minutes, reduce the temperature slightly. Charlotte is baked for about twenty minutes. The dish will be ready when the top turns pink and the sides fall away from the edges of the baking sheet, then remove the cake and tilt it onto the board (the apples will be at the top). When it cools down, you can transfer it to a beautiful dish, sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.
