Mele cotte recipe
Share this recipe on FacebookA simple and extremely delicious dessert, Mele Cotte is apples stuffed with raisins, topped with marmelade and sugar and baked in lemon and clove flavored white wine.
Preparation time: 10 minutes, Cooking time: 30 minutes, Serves: 6
Ingredients
½ cup raisins
½ cup sweet white wine
6 Cortland, Rome or similar apples
2 Tbsp marmalade (strawberry, orange, or any flavor you like)
Sugar for sprinkling the apples
butter, unsalted
1 lemon peel
2 cloves
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 F.
Soak the raisins in the wine.
Core the apples.
Butter the bottom of a baking dish. Place apples in the dish and stuff then with the raisins. Top raisins with a teaspoon of the marmalade. Sprinkle sugar over the apples.
Pour the remaining wine, the lemon peel and cloves in the dish and bake for ½ hour.
Serve with vanila ice cream.