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Tufahija

Name: Tufahija
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ingredients: 4 Apples; 60g Walnuts; 200g Sugar; 600ml Water; 1/2 Lemon; 100ml Heavy Cream; 10g Butter

Dessert

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Apples poached in syrup, stuffed with walnuts, and topped with whipped cream — a Bosnian dessert of Ottoman origin.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Tufahija is a traditional Bosnian dessert said to have come from Persia or Turkey during Ottoman times. Cored apples are poached in sugar syrup, stuffed with walnuts, and topped with whipped cream. In Sarajevo's cafés it's served with Bosnian coffee.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a long-established sweet shop in Sarajevo's Baščaršija, round apple sweets topped with white cream sit in glass dishes beside tiny coffee cups.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Apples 4
Walnuts 60g
Sugar 200g
Water 600ml
Lemon 1/2
Heavy Cream 100ml
Butter 10g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Peel and core the apples.
Bring water, sugar, and lemon juice to a boil in a pot, add the apples, and simmer on low for 15 minutes until translucent, then cool.
Chop the walnuts and work them with butter and a little syrup to make the filling.
Stuff the walnut filling into the apples.
Plate, pour over syrup, and top with whipped cream.

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