Sour apples are used to prepare various dishes: salads, sauces, rolls, pies. Pleasant sourness adds piquancy and sophistication to food. Especially popular are apple sauces, which are served with meat dishes.
Baking with sour apples
Sour and sweet and sour apple varieties include Antonovka, Idared, Bely Naliv, Bessemyanka, Pink Lady, Grushovka, Semerenka, Welsey, Granny Smith and many others. Usually apples that are green have a sour taste. Sour apples are the richest in vitamin C. As you know, this vitamin strengthens the immune system, strengthens the walls of blood vessels and reduces their permeability to toxins. It is forbidden to use sour apples with increased acidity of the stomach, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, gastritis.
Many sour apples are suitable for baking cakes and rolls. So, to prepare the dough for the roll, you will need 1.25 cups of flour for half a glass of water, 1 tsp. salt. Filling: 5 apples, half a glass of raisins, juice of one lemon, 1 tsp. cinnamon, sugar to taste, vegetable oil. Sift the flour. Dissolve the salt in water. Pour the water into the flour, stirring clockwise with a spoon. Knead the dough with your hands and divide it into five pieces. Cover the pieces with a napkin and let sit for 40 minutes. Then roll out the cakes and fry them in vegetable oil. Cut the apples into slices, sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar, add raisins. Pour the lemon juice over the filling. Place the filling on each baked pancake and wrap it in a roll. Bake the rolls in the oven for 20 minutes, greasing a baking sheet with oil. Baking temperature: 200 ° C. Please note that this dish is lean.
Other dishes with sour apples
One of the most popular sour apple dishes is the savory sauce. It is served with meat, game, jellied meat and cold pork. For 4 servings, take 2 large apples, 2 shallots, 1 tbsp. l. raisins, 1 tbsp. l. any brandy, 200 ml of poultry broth, 20 g of butter, 2 tsp. red vinegar, pepper and salt to taste. First, peel the onion and chop it finely. Then peel the apple off and remove the core. Cut the fruit into neat small cubes. Simmer apples and onions in butter. It is best to do this over low heat. The extinguishing time should not exceed 5-6 minutes. Rinse the raisins and add to the apples. Continue braising until the apple cubes are tender. Remove the prepared sauce from heat, salt and pepper. Cool it down and add vinegar. Serve the sauce in a saucepan.
Delicious recipe: baked apples with cottage cheese. For cooking you will need: 5 sour apples, 200 g of cottage cheese, 100 g of sugar, cinnamon, vanilla and nuts. Rinse and core the apples. Stir cottage cheese with sugar, cinnamon and vanilla. Now stuff the apples with cottage cheese and sprinkle with nuts on top. Bake apples in an oven at 180 ° C. Roasting time: 30 minutes.
Sour apples are excellent ingredients for various salads. So, for a summer salad with beets, you will need: 1 beet, 2 celery stalks, 1 orange, 1 apple, a handful of raisins and walnuts. For salad dressing, take 500 g of fermented baked milk, 1 tbsp. l. soy sauce, 1 tsp. grain mustard, a mixture of peppers, basil and spices to taste. Prepare the dressing the night before: freeze the fermented baked milk and then thaw. Or put it on cheesecloth in a colander and put the structure in the refrigerator so that the excess liquid is glass. The next day, remove the strained fermented baked milk from the refrigerator: its consistency should be thicker than sour cream. Add spices, basil, soy sauce to the fermented baked milk and stir. Now start preparing the salad. Steam or bake beets. Cut the celery into slices. Peel the orange from the film: cut one slice into three parts. Cut the beets and apple into slices. Be sure to sprinkle the apple with lemon juice. Add raisins soaked in cognac to all the ingredients. Pour the dressing over the salad. Salting it is not worth it: lemon juice and soy sauce are enough. The more dressing you add, the tastier the salad will be.
