Baked apples with nuts and raisins in the oven

Apples are better to take green, dense, sour varieties Granny Smith or Simirenko. Apples should be large enough. You can use apples that no one wants to finish eating because they are hard or sour :) You can not use rotten and broken apples that will have large parts cut off.

Apples should be well washed and dried with a towel.

1. From apples, you need to carefully cut out the core with the bones so that there is no through hole and the juice does not flow out. I usually do this with a small vegetable knife. You can use a device to remove the core from apples, but it makes a through hole in the apples, and we need to avoid this.

2. Walnuts should be lightly fried in a dry frying pan and chopped, finely chopped with a knife. You can experiment and try other nuts, but it seems to me that walnuts and apples are combined in the best way.

I usually use large, dark varieties of raisins - terma or isabella, but you can also use light ones. The raisins need to be washed well and dried with a paper towel.

Spices can be used any, to your taste, but I think that cardamom, ginger, cinnamon are combined with apples as well as possible. If you use non-ground spices, they need to be pre-ground in a mortar or in a blender.

Raisins, finely chopped nuts, as well as ground spices need to be mixed well. If you use sugar, it can be added to the mixture of nuts and raisins at this stage.

3. Fill an apple with a mixture of raisins, nuts and spices. Add a teaspoon of honey to each apple. If you use sugar, you can make syrup from it and add it at this stage.

Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper or foil. Or wrap each apple in foil, leaving the top part open.

Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 30 minutes.

Ready-made apples should be served chilled, if desired, the dish can be decorated with powdered sugar.