When you want to make a tasty and at the same time healthy dessert, many housewives prefer to make baked apples in a slow cooker. With this kitchen unit fruits are prepared without much difficulty, and a variety of recipes allows you to choose a treat in taste and mood, as well as based on the presence of certain products.
Cooking Tips
It is not difficult to prepare baked apples, but in order for them to have a rich taste and aroma, to retain a fresh hue and shape, you need to know a few secrets.
- Any sorts of apples are suitable for roasting, so long as they have juicy flesh and dense skin, they are free from damage. However, when baking, sweet fruits are less tasty and fragrant than sour fruits. Ideal for baking are considered to be Antonovka apples and similar ones.
- When baking apples, they should be punctured with a toothpick in several places. Because of this, they do not crack when baking. Otherwise, the dessert will not look appetizing.
- Stuffed apples can be baked in two ways. One option is to cut a core out of a whole apple and put stuffing in its place. Another option is to cut the apple in half, remove the core and put the stuffing into the recess. In any case, it is important to preserve the color of the apple. To the apple pulp is not darkened, it is sprinkled with lemon juice.
- For baking apples in a slow cooker, the program “Baking” is most often used. If the “Multipovar” function is provided, it can also be used. In this case, the bowl of the multicooker must be lubricated with vegetable or butter. Sometimes apples are baked in quenching mode. In this case, pour some water, juice or syrup to the bottom. Roasting time depends on the power of the multicooker, the choice of the program and the size of the fruit. Usually it is 40-50 minutes.
Curd, dried fruits, berries, honey, rice and oatmeal are most often used as a filling for cooking stuffed baked apples, however other ingredients can be used.
Baked apples in a slow cooker entirely
Composition:
- apples - 0, 8 kg;
- sugar - 20 g;
- ground cinnamon - 10 g;
- butter - 40 g.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the apples. Dry them with a paper napkin. Around the stem, make several deep vertical cuts, without cutting to the very bottom. Carefully cut the top off the stem. Using a small spoon, remove the core, trying not to disturb the integrity of the fruit.
- Mix the sugar with cinnamon, spread it over the apples, pouring it into the holes. Cover with a "lid" - cut off the top with a stem.
- Rub the oil in small pieces directly into the multicooker bowl. Turn on Baking mode by setting the timer to 40 minutes. When the butter has melted, put the apples in the bowl and lower the lid.
- After 20 minutes, check if the apples are ready. If they have not yet become soft enough, bake them for another 10 minutes before the next calibration. If necessary, continue cooking apples until the program finishes its work.
You can serve apples without decorating them, but they will be much tastier and more appetizing if you pour honey on them before serving or pour whipped cream on them.
Apples Baked with Cottage Cheese and Nuts
Composition:
- apples - 1 kg;
- sugar - 20 g;
- chicken egg - 1 pc .;
- cottage cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- lemon juice - 5 ml;
- vanillin - 1 g;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- walnut kernels - 50 g.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the apples, cut the top, remove the core with a knife or spoon. Sprinkle with lemon juice.
- Crush walnut kernels. You can use a blender or just chop nuts with a knife.
- In a bowl, mash the cottage cheese with a fork, break an egg into it, add sugar, vanillin, nuts. Stir thoroughly to form a homogeneous mass.
- Start apples curd mass. It should barely reach the brim. If you put the fillings too much, then when baking, it will rise and begin to boil.
- Lubricate the multicooker container with oil, place fruit in it. Activate the Baking program for 40 minutes.
Before serving the apples to the table, it is enough to pour them with the multivarks formed when baking syrup from the bottom.
Apples Baked with Cottage Cheese and Raisins
Composition:
- apples - 0, 7 kg;
- cottage cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- sugar - 20 g;
- raisins - 100 g;
- butter - 50 g;
- cinnamon - 1 stick;
- mint - 6 leaves.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the apples, dry them and cut them in half, cut the core.
- Mix cottage cheese with raisins and sugar, fill them with apples.
- Crumble the butter in small pieces into a multicooker bowl.
- Run the “Baking” program for half an hour. When the butter has melted, put the apples in the bowl.
After completing the program, place the apples on the plates, garnish with a piece of cinnamon and a mint leaf.
Apples Baked with Nuts and Honey
Composition:
- apples - 0, 6 kg;
- walnut kernels - 30 g;
- honey - 70 g;
- lemon - 0, 5 pcs .;
- butter - 40 g.
Method of preparation:
- After washing and drying the fruits, cut them in half and cut the core without making the indentations too large.
- Squeeze juice from half a lemon, brush them with apples in the cut areas.
- Cut the kernels with a knife, not too shallow.
- Rub the lemon zest half.
- Melt the honey to a semi-liquid state and mix it with zest and nuts.
- Place a teaspoonful of the sweet mass in the hollows in each apple.
- Grease the bowl of the multivariate with softened butter and place fruit in it.
- Bake with the lid closed in Baking mode for 30 minutes.
It is best to serve baked apples according to this recipe with whipped cream or ice cream. If desired, add some raisins or sliced dried apricots into the filling. In this case, the dessert will turn out even more tasty and healthy.
Apples Baked in Dough
Composition:
- apples - 1 kg (5 pcs.);
- flour - 0, 27 kg;
- butter - 0, 18 kg;
- salt - a pinch;
- icing sugar - 100-130 g;
- berry jam - 100 g.
Method of preparation:
- After washing the apples, cut off the top of them, cut the core, leaving the bottom.
- Fill the apples with jam.
- Knead dough from sifted flour, powdered sugar, salt and 150 g of butter. Divide it into 5 pieces, roll each piece into a ball, wrap it in foil and put it in the fridge for half an hour.
- Take out one piece of dough, roll out and wrap the apples in the dough so that the hole in which the jam looks out coincides with the center of the circle from the dough.
- Lubricate the multicooker bowl with the remaining butter. To do this, it should be cut into small pieces, put on the bottom and turn on the mode of baking or frying. Once the oil is melted, the slow cooker can be temporarily turned off, and the oil spread across the bottom with a cooking brush.
- Fold the apples into the bowl in the dough and bake them using the “Baking” program (or “Baking”) for 40 minutes.
This dessert is served with jam or whipped cream. With ice cream, he also goes well.
Apples baked in a multivariate are one of the most useful desserts, especially if you use honey instead of sugar and include cottage cheese and dried fruits in the filling. To prepare it is not difficult even for the beginning pastry chef.
