A microwave oven, also known as a microwave oven, is an extremely convenient household appliance. In it, you can not only heat food, make delicious crackers, croutons and sandwiches, but also bake delicious apples.
Basic rules for working with a microwave
Each device has its own instruction manual, and it should be carefully studied. Often a small brochure with the most popular recipes is also attached to it. Perhaps there are recommendations for fruit processing. If not, here are some tips on
baking apples in the microwave.- The fruits themselves are sour. Therefore, it is better to sprinkle them with sugar or pour sweet sauce, syrup.
- To make the fruits soft and tender, they should add a little liquid - water or syrup. And it’s nice to put slices of butter or margarine for the best taste.
- Another nuance of how to bake apples in the microwave is the correct calculation of time. The larger the fruit, the more time it takes to process. An average-sized apple takes from 4 to 6 minutes, a larger one takes 7-8, sometimes 9. In order not to make a mistake, you can check the readiness with a fork. But it’s better to turn off the stove when they are a little hard. After all, the temperature in the microwave oven remains high even after turning it off, and the finished fruits do not need to be taken out immediately, and they reach themselves.
- Before baking apples in the microwave, they need to be chopped. The peel of the fruit is quite dense, and thus the cooking process is accelerated. Yes, and juice flows better, and the fruit due to this remains intact, not sour. Saved, so to speak, presentation.
- When thinking about how to bake apples in the microwave, you can start them with something, or you can leave it as it is, in its purest form. It will turn out equally tasty.
Prescription Guide
And now let's take apples directly! Put the fruit on a special dish (it should go complete with a microwave), after cutting them into halves and taking out the middle with the seeds. Put oil in the recesses, add sugar on top, and ground cinnamon. We set the timer for 5-6 minutes. Power is average. After turning off the door, do not open another 3 minutes. Then sprinkle with icing sugar or cool and apply whipped cream on top.
Apple abundance
Baked apples in the microwave, the recipe of which we proposed, of course, are delicious. But there are tons of other cooking methods. For example, if you stuff fruit with something special. So, again cut into halves, clean the middle. Or we take the whole, we chop the peel, cut out the “insides” with a special knife, cut off the top. We make the filling: mix the mashed cottage cheese with raisins, butter and honey into a homogeneous mass. We fill apples with it and put them on a dish. Cover with baking paper. You can add a little water or syrup to the dish. Then at full power, set the timer for 4 minutes. Leave another 5 so that the fruits “reach”. In the finished form, such apples, baked with raisins, should turn out to be juicy and soft, sweet.
In this way, you can bake apples with nuts, pumpkin, jam or jam, other fillings that you like. The main thing is that it is delicious!