Bosnian tufahije

Ingredients:

• 6 cooking apples
• 200g. walnuts, finely chopped
• 100g. sultanas
• 500g. sugar
• 200g. whipping cream

Tufahije is a Balkan dessert made of walnut-stuffed apples stewed in water with sugar, very popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Tufahije were introduced during the Ottoman rule, the dessert probably originating from Persia. Here are the directions for preparing:

Peel and core the apples and than mix the walnuts and sultanas. Arrange apples on a baking dish and fill with the walnut mixture. Dissolve the sugar in 1l. water and pour over the apples. Bake until the apples are soft but not soggy! Serve cold with whipped cream.

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Bosnian tufahije

Romanian thick fish soup

Ingredients:

• 2 onions
• 1-1,5dl. water
• 2 carrots
• 1 parsley root
• 1 parsnip
• 1 celery root
• 1-2 bayleaves
• peppercorns
• salt
• 1-1,5kg. freshwater fish
• 30g. oil
• 30g. flour
• 1 teaspoon red paprika pepper
• 1dl. sour cream
• 1 egg yolk
• juice of 1 lemon

Pour water into a deeper pot. Peel onion, cut into slices. Scrape carrot, parsley, parsnip and celery, cut lengthways and put into cold water together with bayleaf, some salt and a few peppercorns. Heat and simmer until vegetables and tender. Then strain soup and heat it again.

Cut cleaned fish into bigger pieces and simmer in strained soup until tender. Heat oil, add flour, fry until slightly brown, add red paprika pepper, pour some cold water and then somesoup. Mix all and pour into the soup with cooked fish. If necessary add more salt and pepper and simmer for a short while. Add cooked and chopped roots to the soup.

Before serving, beat egg yolk with sour cream in the soup dish, add lemon juice and stirring all the time pour into the soup. With this thick fish soup can be served croutons.

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Romanian thick fish soup