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Dishes made with apple

16 dishes from around the world that list apple as a main ingredient.

Apple sauceVegan 🇺🇸 United States and 5 moreSmooth cooked apples, sometimes sweetened or spiced, eaten as a side or dessert Sauce, pickle or ferment, Lunch, Dinner Candy appleVegan 🇺🇸 United States and 5 moreWhole apples dipped in a hard red sugar candy shell on a stick Sweet or dessert, Snacks

Rooh AfzaVegan 🇮🇳 India and 2 moreA sweet herbal syrup mixed with water or milk, popular in South Asia Drink, Snacks

CharosetVegan 🇮🇱 Israel and 5 moreA sweet fruit and nut paste for the Passover table Sweet or dessert

QueimadaVegan 🇪🇸 SpainGalician punch of orujo spirit, sugar, citrus peel and coffee, set alight in a ritual Drink, Dinner

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Apple sauce: Taken, CC0, source
Rooh Afza: Divas Grover, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Charoset: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Queimada: No machine-readable author provided. Rapomon assumed (based on copyrig, Public domain, source

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Every Monday: seven dishes you may not know, what the world is cooking this week, and one way of eating.