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Dish of the week: Holubtsi

18 Raisins Recipes From 16 Cuisines.

Dried grapes earn their place in savory cooking far more than in baking: Sicilian pasta with sardines, Moroccan tagines, Persian and Uzbek pilafs, and Spanish picadas all use them to answer salt and spice with concentrated sweetness. Golden sultanas are milder, dark raisins deeper, tiny currants sharpest. Plump them in warm water, wine or stock before adding, otherwise they steal moisture from whatever they are cooking in and stay leathery.

18 recipes on this route

The recipes.

Sliced dark barmbrack fruit loaf packed with raisins, one thick slice spread with butter

Ireland13 hr 35 min

Barmbrack

Irish Tea-Soaked Fruit Loaf

Baked bobotie in a white dish, golden egg custard top with bay leaves standing upright, one square lifted out

South Africa1 hr 35 min

Bobotie

Cape Malay Curried Mince Bake

Golden butter tarts on a wire rack, one bitten open with glossy caramel filling running out

Canada1 hr 55 min

Butter Tarts

Runny Brown Sugar Tartlets

A wide tray of Libyan couscous topped with lamb, pumpkin wedges, chickpeas and a crown of caramelised onions with raisins

Libya2 hr 5 min

Couscous bil Bosla

Libyan Lamb and Pumpkin Couscous

Golden Cypriot flaounes with sesame-crusted folded dough and puffed cheese and raisin filling on a rack

Cyprus3 hr 35 min

Flaounes

Cypriot Easter Cheese and Mint Pastries

Bowl of golden craggy fritule fritters heaped under a thick dusting of icing sugar

Croatia1 hr 40 min

Fritule

Dalmatian Rum and Citrus Fritters

A cup of chilled Dominican sweet bean cream with raisins, sweet potato cubes and milk cookies on top

Dominican Republic4 hr 20 min

Habichuelas con Dulce

Dominican Sweet Cream of Red Beans

Opened hallaca on its banana leaf showing orange corn dough around a meat guiso with olives and raisins

Venezuela17 hr

Hallacas

Venezuelan Christmas Corn Parcels in Banana Leaf

Torn caramelised Kaiserschmarrn pancake pieces dusted with icing sugar beside dark plum compote

Austria55 min

Kaiserschmarrn

Shredded Austrian Emperor Pancake

A golden fried bulgur disc cut into wedges, showing spiced lamb filling with almonds and raisins inside

Iraq2 hr 5 min

Kubba Mosul

Bulgur-Shelled Meat Patty from Northern Iraq

Glass of thick dark Estonian rye bread soup topped with whipped cream and toasted rye crumbs

Estonia4 hr 45 min

Leivasupp

Sweet Estonian Rye Bread Soup

Dark glossy mole poblano poured over turkey pieces and scattered with toasted sesame seeds

Mexico3 hr

Mole Poblano

Chile and Chocolate Sauce with Turkey

Every recipe on this route.

All 18 of them, alphabetically, with the country each one comes from.

also known assultanas, currants, kishmish

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