Apples Dizme Fashion

Name: Apples Dizme Fashion (Elma Dizmesi)
Yield: To Serve 6
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: ¼ tsp salt; ¼ tsp crushed cloves; 500 g/1 lb hard cooking apples; 25 g/1 oz butter; 200 ml/7 fl oz boiling water; 150 g/5 oz caster sugar; 500 g/1 lb fat shoulder of lamb, minced twice

Elma Dizmesi

Preparation info

To Serve
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Nevin Halici's Turkish Cookbook

By Nevin Halici

Published 1989

About

This dish of apples and meat patties from southeastern Anatolia can also be prepared with pekmez – grape syrup (p. 173) – instead of sugar. Dizme means “lined up” and refers to the way the apples and köfte are arranged in the pan.

Ingredients

500 g/1 lb hard cooking apples
500 g/1

Asia
Turkey
Main course
Mediterranean
Gluten-free

Method

Core the apples and slice in rings 1.25 cm/1/2 inch thick. If the apples are large, cut them in half and then slice them.

Knead the mince well with the cloves and salt and make köfte the same size