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Apples Fournou
Baked Stuffed Apples are an absolute favourite in Greece. There are many various ways to prepare them. This is a particularly delicious method and you might like to try placing the cooked apple on a bowl of thick creamy plain yoghurt (Greek strained yoghurt if available) and topping the apple and yoghurt with honey.... heaven...
4 large golden apples 8 tbspns crushed walnuts 2 crushed biscuits (Graham crackers or Digestive biscuits) 4 tbspns fruit jam (marmalade) of your choice 30 gr - 1 oz golden sultanas a little butter
Instructions
Soak the sultanas in warm water to soften them for 30 minutes and then drain them well and towel dry them. Wash and core the apples but DO NOT peal them. Cut incisions into the peal in 3 places in each apple without damaging the fruit. Cut out 4 generous sheets of aluminum foil. Each big enough to wrap an apple inside. Brush each sheet of foil with butter and place one apple in the centre of each piece. Mix the jam, crushed walnuts, biscuits and sultanas in a bowl and then spoon an even amount into the centre of each cored out apple. Wrap the apples carefully in the foil and bake them in a moderately preheated oven at 180 C - 350 F for 25 minutes. Serve them hot and knock yourselves out...
