Baked apple is a wonderful dish, which is now undeservedly forgotten by many.
It is very healthy and tasty.
And you can cook baked apples in the oven in a variety of ways: whole, slices, halves, with fillings and sauces.
Here are the most delicious recipes of this simple delicacy.
Baked apples in the oven - the general principles of cooking
It is better not to use summer apples for cooking. Since they have a thin skin, which can burst during cooking. The pulp of the summer fruit turns out crumbly and too soft, it is also not to everyone's taste.
Ideally, it is better to use autumn apples of sour or sweet-sour varieties, for example, Antonovka. But in winter, you can use any fruit that will be available. They are all good, because they are not very juicy and have dense flesh.
What apples are made of:
• with dried fruits;
• with nuts;
• with cottage cheese;
• with cereals.
For sweetness, sugar or honey is added. For aroma put vanilla, cinnamon. Although the baked fruits themselves smell amazingly, like most toppings.
Recipe 1: Honey Baked Apples in the Oven
The classic recipe for baked apples in the oven. For the preparation you will need natural honey, as well as sour apples.
Ingredients
• 5 apples;
• 5 teaspoons of honey;
• a little vanilla;
• a piece of foil.
Cooking
1. Immediately you need to turn on the oven, set the 180 degrees.
2. Wash apples, dry them with a towel. Peel is never removed.
3. Take a small knife with a sharp tip and cut a hole in a circle on the side of the stem. The task is to cut the stub, but not to the end. That is, there should be no holes on the opposite side so that honey does not flow out.
4. Use a foil to line a small mold or simply cover two layers of foil.
5. We spread the prepared fruit.
6. In each well we pour a small pinch of vanilla and put a spoonful of honey. 7. Wrap the free edges of the foil inside. Connecting is not necessary, just slightly cover.
8. Send the apples to the oven and bake. The time depends on the variety, size and juiciness of the fruit and can vary from 10 to 40 minutes.
Recipe 2: Baked apples in the oven with cinnamon
For cooking baked apples in the oven according to this recipe, the fruit is best cut. Thus, it will be easier to evenly distribute cinnamon powder, and it will evenly soak the halves. You can bake according to this recipe with both honey and sugar.
Ingredients
• apples;
• cinnamon;
• honey or sugar.
Cooking
1. Wash apples and cut into 2 halves.
2. Cut out from each core, making small boats.
3. Sprinkle cinnamon halves over the entire surface.
4. If sugar is used, then pour a little into the hole and sprinkle lightly on top of the entire area. Pour a lot is not worth it, the sugar will melt and drain.
5. If honey is used, then just put half a spoon in the hole. There is no need to smear anything on the surface.
6. We shift the blanks to the mold, send it in the oven and bake until the fruit is soft.
Recipe 3: Baked apples in the oven with cottage cheese
For cooking ruddy, tender and melting apples baked in the oven, you need a good cottage cheese, preferably not dry. This dish can be a great alternative to cheesecakes and casseroles, as it is much easier to prepare.
Ingredients
• 160 grams of cottage cheese;
• 5-6 apples;
• 1 yolk;
• 0.5 tablespoons of starch;
• 2 tablespoons of powder;
• some vanilla.
Cooking
1. We put cottage cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla with yolk in a bowl, add starch. Mass interrupt blender or mixer. Dry and grainy cottage cheese can be rubbed through a sieve before preparing the filling. Also, if desired, you can add a little sour cream to make the mass more tender.
2. We wash the apples and remove the “cap” from the side of the stem.
3. We take a spoon and carefully select the middle with a stub, but the walls should remain fairly thick, at least 0.7 centimeters. Get peculiar barrels. 4. Fill the prepared holes with curd mass.
5. Put the apples in shape or just on the foil and bake in the oven. At 190 degrees it will take about half an hour. But we are guided by our apples.
Recipe 4: Baked apples in the oven with nuts and raisins
Formulation of very fragrant apples with amazing fillings. In addition to raisins and nuts, honey is added, making the dish even more useful.
Ingredients
• 1 cup raisins;
• 7 teaspoons of honey;
• 14 walnuts;
• cinnamon;
• 1-2 tablespoons of sugar;
• 30 ml of cognac.
Instead of brandy, you can use any liquor or wine.
Cooking
1. Wash the raisins, place on a napkin and dry. Then pour in a bowl, add the brandy and stir. Leave to stand for a while while preparing other ingredients.
2. Apples we wash, cut off the top and carefully select the middle. We try not to damage the wall, bottom and skin.
3. We chop the nuts with a knife and lay 2 pieces in each apple.
4. Then spread the raisins evenly over all the fruits.
5. Top lay out the honey. It is not necessary to melt, even if it is very thick. In the oven will become thinner and soak all the stuffing.
6. Mix sugar with cinnamon and sprinkle apples on top.
7. Send in the form and put in the oven. Bake for half an hour until ready.
Recipe 5: Baked apples in the oven with ginger and honey
Recipe amazing delicacy that is served with vanilla sauce. Such baked apples deserve even a festive table. It is better to use the Golden variety or the detailed one.
Ingredients
• 4 large apples;
• 4 spoons of honey;
• 20 grams of oil;
• 30 grams of ginger;
• 4 spoons of white wine.
For the sauce:
• 250 ml of cream;
• 1 vanilla pod;
• 2 yolks;
• 30 grams of sugar.
Cooking
1. Put the cream on the stove. Better in a saucepan. We warm up until the bubbles appear together with the vanilla pod, but do not let them boil. Remove from heat and let it brew for a quarter of an hour. Take out the pod.
2. Whisk yolks with sugar and pour into cream. Again put on the stove and warm up to a slight thickening. The sauce is ready, you just need to cool it. In the meantime, you can do apples. 3. My fruits, we remove the core with a special device, but do not push it to the end, it should remain bottom. If there is no special recess, then simply cut out the hole with a sharp knife.
4. Ginger peeled and chopped. You can simply grate.
5. Combine chopped ginger with honey, rub well.
6. Spread the ginger stuffing on apples, distribute evenly.
7. Shift the fruit into the form and add a little wine to each one and put a small piece of butter on top.
8. Bake until soft at 170 degrees.
9. Take out the apples, cool them to a warm state and serve with cold creamy sauce.
Recipe 6: Baked apples in the oven with rice
Another version of baked apples, for which you need rice. The dish is very satisfying, but also high in calories.
Ingredients
• 5 apples;
• 60 grams of rice;
• 50 grams of raisins;
• 25 grams of oil;
• 3 spoons of sugar;
• 2 tablespoons sour cream;
• some vanilla.
Cooking
1. Boil rice in ordinary water with a pinch of salt until cooked. Broth merge.
2. Add butter and sugar to hot rice and stir.
3. Wash the raisins and send them to the rice filling along with vanilla. All well stirred.
4. We take out the pulp with a stub from the washed apples, after removing the top. The hole should be roomy, but the walls should not be too thin.
5. Fill the fruit with rice filling.
6. Grease the filling with sour cream on top and send the fruit to bake until done.
Recipe 7: Baked apples in the “Caramel” oven
It turns out that you can bake apples in the oven not only in halves or whole, but even in small pieces.
Ingredients
• 4 apples;
• 4 spoons of sugar;
• 0.5 tsp. cinnamon;
• 50 grams of oil.
Cooking
1. Immediately set the oven at 220 degrees, turn on.
2. Shape in which we bake, rub with a piece of butter.
3. Cut the apple into 4 parts and cut the core from every corner. Cut each another into 3 slices. We cut all the fruits.
4. Spread on a greased pan in one layer. If you do not fit, do overlap. 5. Mix sugar with cinnamon, sprinkle on top.
6. Take the remaining butter and cut into small pieces the size of a pea and spread over the apples.
7. We put in the oven and fry until caramel color, the temperature is not reduced.
Recipe 8: Baked apples in the oven with oatmeal
Formulation of very fragrant apples with an interesting filling. For cooking you will need instant oatmeal.
Ingredients
• 4 apples;
• 1 spoon of honey;
• 1/4 cup oatmeal;
• 2 tablespoons of chopped nuts;
• 10 pieces of dried apricots;
• a piece of ginger.
Cooking
1. Nuts take any. Combine with chopped dried apricots and chopped ginger pieces. Add oatmeal, two spoons of water and honey. We put on the stove.
2. Cook the filling for a couple of minutes, stirring constantly. The fire is big not doing. Remove and cool slightly.
3. Cut out the insides of apples, forming barrels.
4. Fill the stuffing and put in the oven. We bake until the apples are ready at 180 degrees.
Baked apples in the oven - tips and tricks
• Apples will be more beautiful if you sprinkle them with brown sugar, not white, before being sent to the oven.
• Apples can be baked with other dishes. But you need to hermetically pack in foil, so that the flavors are not mixed.
• To prevent the filling of fruit from leaking, it is not necessary to fill the hole completely. Approximately 0.5 cm from the top is left.
• It is undesirable for whole apples to be in contact with each other when baking. If there is a distance between them, cooking will be more even.
