All who monitor their weight or are forced to diet for health reasons have been confronted with a ban on sweets. But even this rule has its exceptions. These are baked apples. This dessert is suitable for all existing diets (even for children under 1 year old and suffering from gastrointestinal diseases). At the same time, a baked apple is even healthier than fresh. It contains pectins - substances that cleanse the body of harmful toxins and toxins. Naturally, there were many recipes for such a healthy and delicious dessert, and most importantly, you can bake apples in a slow cooker.
The most traditional way of cooking is apples baked with or without sugar. This will require 4-6 medium apples, a little sugar and water. Wash the fruits well and wipe dry. Remove the core, put a little sugar inside and pour water. Put everything in a saucepan and bake apples in a slow cooker for 30-40 minutes (Baking mode). In order not to add sugar, it is better to use sweet varieties with a dense skin for cooking. Before serving, you can sprinkle apples with a little sugar powder.
Of course, there are other equally popular recipes for baked apples. Often they are filled with various fillings to give them additional sweetness or just to diversify their menu. One of the most common fillings is cottage cheese with dried fruits. For 4 apples, 100 g of soft cottage cheese and as many dried fruits will be required. Rinse the last well, pour boiling water and let it brew for 10-15 minutes. Then drain the water and grind everything with a blender. Stir the resulting mass into cottage cheese and stuff the prepared apples. Cook as much as the classic recipe. Apples baked in a pan-cooker Panasonic, according to this recipe, are very sweet and without added sugar.
Another popular apple filling is various berries, such as lingonberries. For this dessert, cut the apples in half, remove the core, so that it turns out "cups". In this recess, put cranberries (1 apple will need about 1 teaspoon). Bake apples in a slow cooker with the "Baking" or "Multipovar" mode at 180 degrees 25-30 minutes. Pour honey to taste to serve.
For those who do not follow any diets and just want to treat themselves to sweets, you can cook baked apples with nuts and vanilla sauce. Grind and mix the nuts, best of all, with a little sugar and cinnamon. Put a tablespoon in each fruit and bake apples in a slow cooker until cooked (usually 30-35 minutes). Meanwhile, prepare the sauce. For him, mix 500 ml of milk with 100 g of sugar and vanilla, heat and add 4 tbsp. tablespoons of starch, diluted in a small amount of milk. Cook, stirring, until thickened. Allow the apples to cool slightly and serve with vanilla sauce. If desired, they can be decorated with nuts or ground cinnamon.
Baked apples in the
Redmond slow cooker or any other do not differ in taste from those cooked in the oven or microwave. At the same time, all vitamins and minerals are stored in them. This delicious and healthy dessert is perfect even for a festive menu. And, of course, you can pamper yourself every day without the risk of gaining extra pounds.