In modern cooking, it is customary to surprise. Unusual exotic products, non-standard combinations of tastes, original sauces - all this allows you to create new interesting dishes. But do not forget about traditional cuisine. It is sometimes so pleasant to treat yourself and your loved ones with delicious dishes familiar from childhood, for example, stuffed apples.
About apples
Apples are an all-season product in an affordable price range for all. So the dish can be prepared in winter and summer, even with a modest budget. There are many recipes for stuffed apples - some are known to all, others are passed on from generation to generation in the family. Here you can find the best and most traditional ways of making apples in the oven.
But for any recipe, you must initially choose the right fruits themselves. Many people prefer to buy juicy sweet apples, but this is not the best option. For baking, sour and sour-sweet varieties are ideal, and the desired sweetness can be achieved by adding sugar and honey.
Fruits should be chosen strong, not loose, with dense pulp, and about the same size. So they will cook at the same time. It is better to take average apples - fruits that are too large are baked unevenly, and the portion is large for one person. For small fruits, it is easy to choose too much pulp and leave nothing to cook.
With raisins
The easiest way to make stuffed apples in the oven with raisins. This is a recipe from Soviet childhood, and today this delicacy is prepared in some kindergartens.
Ingredients:
- Apples - 4 pcs.
- Seedless raisins - 80 gr.
- Sugar - 70 gr.
- Apricot jam or syrup - optional.
You need to cook like this:
- Wash apples, dry and cut off the hat. Trim exactly the bottom. Gently remove the core with seeds so that the bottom remains.
- Prepare raisins - any seedless variety. Rinse it well and pour hot water to swell. For this, 15 minutes is enough.
- Drain the warm water from the raisins. Put it on paper towels to absorb excess moisture. Dry well - raisins in the end should not leave wet spots on paper.
- Add sugar crystals to raisins. You can use brown cane, but the original recipe uses the usual one.
- Stuff the fruits tightly with the cooked filling and put on a heat-resistant non-stick mat in a baking sheet. At the bottom of the pan you can pour a couple of tablespoons of water.
- Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Put a frying pan with fruit and bake for 40 minutes.
The result should be apples with a golden brown crust, but juicy and soft inside. When serving, you can pour them with apricot jam or sauce.
Traditional
Stuffed apples were originally stuffed with apples themselves! Yes, yes, it was later replaced the filling with nuts, raisins and other sweets.
Ingredients:
- Apples - 4 pcs.
- Cinnamon - 1 tsp.
- Regular sugar - 3 tbsp. l It can also be replaced with honey. The combination of apple, cinnamon and honey is more traditional. The combination of apple, sugar and cinnamon is more budgetary.
- Puff pastry (you can shop) - 100 gr.
- Egg - 1 pc.
Cook like this:
- Prepare apples - see above.
- The pulp and the hat need to be processed separately - remove seeds and partitions, and finely chop the rest.
- Mix apple pulp with sugar and cinnamon. The last ingredient goes well with an apple and can be put in excess. You also need to take into account the aroma and intensity of ground cinnamon - for some manufacturers the powder is less aromatic, so the amount of spice needs to be regulated by eye.
- Fill the apples and cover them with a wicker of thinly rolled puff pastry.
- Grease the dough with a beaten egg or beaten yolk.
- Stuffed apples put in a baking dish, pour 80 ml on the bottom. water.
- Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Put the fruit pan and bake for 25-35 minutes. Time depends on the variety, well, plus you need to control the degree of baking of the dough.
With meat
Stuffed apples can also be prepared with meat. Minced meat can be taken any - from pork to turkey, fatty or lean.
Ingredients:
- Apple - 4 pcs.
- Walnuts - 4 pcs. In combination with meat, they give the dish a special taste and make it very satisfying.
- Minced meat - 250 gr.
- Seasonings - salt and pepper.
Cook like this:
- Cook the minced meat.
- Prepare nuts: peel, crush into smaller pieces and bake in a dry frying pan.
- Stuff the minced meat with nuts, salt and black pepper. You can use any other spices, such as paprika, ground nutmeg or Provence herbs.
- Prepare the apples - wash, dry and remove the core while maintaining the bottom. Save the hat.
- Stuff the apples tightly, as the filling after baking will greatly decrease. To cover with a lid.
- Put the fruit on a baking sheet, pour a little water into it.
- Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Put a baking tray with fruits and bake for 30 minutes.
Stuffed apples with minced meat served hot. Enjoy your meal!