In modern cooking, there are so many recipes that keeping track of them all is practically beyond anyone's power. Many, especially adherents of proper healthy nutrition, are interested in what recipes exist, not only for delicious, but also for beneficial dishes. This article will describe not only the favorite treat of all, but also its beneficial properties. The article presents a step-by-step recipe for baked apples.
Cooking features
Many are interested in the recipe of baked apples. The key to the baking process is the choice of fruit variety. Apples should be green in color, have a strong peel and firm sour flesh. Among these varieties are Antonovka, Ranet and Mackintosh. These apples are great for baking.
Baking apples is not a particularly difficult task. First you need to wash them, cut the core with a kitchen knife. You can fill it with anything - honey, sugar, nuts, cottage cheese with raisins, some even fill with minced meat. The most popular is the recipe for baked apples with honey.
Usually they bake them whole, but you can cut them into slices. The baking time varies from the variety of apples, and they are taken out of the oven immediately after the peel is cracked.
When baking apples with meat, you can prepare an excellent side dish and serve it with many dishes. Even jellies are made from this treat.
It is important to note that during baking, the sucrose found in apples breaks down into simpler carbohydrates - glucose and fructose. It is known that they are much better absorbed by the body. In addition, their taste is much better than that of raw fruits.
Properties of baked apples
Baked apples are a delicacy that has been known to everyone since childhood. They are often served with various additives that add extra fat and calories: cream, sour cream, sweet and salty sauces.
But it is important to note that baked apples themselves have indispensable properties. They are very healthy, enriched with various vitamins, while ordinary baked apples have much fewer calories than those that are additionally watered with a variety of sauces. Oven baked apple recipes are the most useful among many other cooking options for these fruits.
Baked apples are literally a diet treat because of their low calorie count - only about 110-115 calories per 100 grams of product. If you are a dietary follower and your diet contains no more than 2000 calories per day, then a portion of freshly baked apples will make up only about 6% of your daily intake. Given the beneficial properties and amazing taste, this is a wonderful indicator.
Carbohydrates and Fiber
Of course, apples baked in the oven contain carbohydrates, like any other fruit. But, given that the daily intake of carbohydrates in an adult is approximately 235 grams, apples contain only 9 grams. At the same time, carbohydrates break down into fructose and glucose during baking, which allows them to be better absorbed.
Even such a small amount of carbohydrates will give you a boost of energy for the whole day, especially if you decide to eat baked apples for breakfast or a snack. They give an additional influx of energy if they are consumed in the morning.
Vitamin A
Daily use of baked apples guarantees the active intake of vitamin A. It is extremely useful both for the body as a whole and separately for eyesight. It is useful for eye health in all age groups, and the vitamin contained in baked apples also helps strengthen teeth and bones, improve skin and even protect mucous tissues.
Apples with cottage cheese
For this simple recipe, you will need several ingredients that you don’t even need to go to the store specifically for. Naturally, these are 4 apples, sugar, vanilla sugar, 1 egg yolk and 200 grams of cottage cheese. Now let's move on to cooking. The recipe for baked apples with cottage cheese in the oven is quite simple.
- Cottage cheese must be rubbed through a sieve to avoid large lumps. Beat the yolk with vanilla sugar, and then with the usual. The resulting mixture is added to the curd and mix thoroughly.
- Apples will need to be washed and then cut out. Do not forget to pierce them in some places with a knife so that they do not burst.
- Fill each apple with sweet cottage cheese and cover with the “lid” that remained after cutting the core. We leave in the oven preheated to 200 degrees for about 10-15 minutes. You can serve them warm or chilled with various types of jam or sour cream.
The recipe for baked apples with cottage cheese is extremely simple and will suit everyone who wants to try such a healthy treat.
Apples with meat
We tried sweets, it's time to move on to the meat version of the dish. Apples with meat are not made as rarely as you might think.
This recipe will be slightly more complicated than the previous one, but it's worth it. You will need vegetable oil, dry white wine, a mixture of ground beef and pork, salt and spices to taste, vegetable oil, lemon juice, beef liver, sun-dried tomatoes in butter and butter.
Apples will need to be washed, cut out, and sprinkled pulp should be sprinkled with lemon juice.
Spread dried tomatoes and dry on a napkin with sage leaves.
Wash the liver, remove the upper film and ducts of bile, grind. Stir with minced meat, add salt and pepper to taste.
Peel and chop onion with garlic, fry them in a pan with vegetable oil for about 5 minutes, then add minced meat and fry the mixture together.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Fill the apples with meat filling, put the mold pre-greased with butter. Butter will also need to be cut into small pieces, and put into apples. Cover the apples with the tops that were cut, sprinkle them with white wine and bake for about 25-30 minutes.
A great recipe for baked apples in the oven, isn't it?
Cereal apples
This version of the baked apple recipe is perfect for those who do not know how to please themselves for breakfast.
You will need: tangerine, apples, coconut and sugar to taste, cereal, butter and poppy seeds.
Wash the apples, cut about a sixth of the apple on top and carefully remove the middle with a spoon or knife, leaving about half a centimeter. We try not to damage the peel of the apple.
We clean the tangerines, cut the pulp into pieces.
Mix all the ingredients, including cereal. Melt the butter and add to the mixture. Once again, all carefully interfere.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. We spread the resulting mixture into each apple and set to bake for about 10-20 minutes. Time varies, it all depends on the variety of apples that you have chosen.
Breakfast is necessary in principle, and a healthy and tasty meal will bring even more benefits to your health.
Apple with Raisins and Nuts
The standard recipe for baked apples is apples with honey, nuts and raisins. The recipe is quite simple and does not include many ingredients. Honey, walnuts, cinnamon, sugar, raisins and apples are all you need.
- For this recipe you need to use apples of the same size - medium. Golden apples are also the best choice. As always, cut out the top and core, so that later cover the filling.
- We remove the removed core from seeds, cut into cubes, add honey, chopped nuts, cinnamon, sugar and raisins. Mix everything thoroughly.
- Put the mass that turned out into an apple, cover with the top. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake for about 15-20 minutes (enough for this grade). Then, if desired, you can optionally pour honey and garnish with icing sugar and mint.
A simple and tasty dish will saturate you with energy, and besides, it is liked by both adults and children.
Cranberry Apples
The best way to combine two healthy foods is to make a baked apple and cranberry recipe.
For the recipe you will need apples, cranberries, cinnamon, honey and raisins. The amount of each product depends on the number of servings that you intend to cook.
Combine honey, cinnamon, raisins and cranberries in a separate bowl.
You need to remove the core from the apples, do not forget to leave the “caps”.
Start the cut apples with the mixture, which is already ready and cover with the tops. If desired, you can grease the baking dish and put apples there.
Bake for 20 minutes at 200 degrees. Apples should be soft.
The combination of two healthy foods will saturate your body with vitamins and give you energy and strength.
Cooking
Baked apples can be cooked not only in the oven. You can easily do this with a microwave or multicooker. There are lots of recipes for baked apples in the microwave.
In the case of the microwave, so that the apples bake faster to the bottom of the microwave oven in which they will bake, pour some water and cover with a sheet of baking paper.
It is also not necessary to remove apples from the microwave ahead of time, you need to let them brew.
As for recipes for baked apples in a slow cooker, they are almost as light as a microwave recipe.
In the multicooker there is a function "Baking", we will use it. The bowl must be greased with vegetable or butter. If you are a lover of stewed apples, then pour a little more water or some kind of syrup into the bottom of the bowl. Baking time always depends on the multicooker program, apple variety and temperature. Most often, it takes about 40 minutes.
About baked apples
As we see, there are many recipes that people use to eat tasty and healthy.
Apples that have been baked in the oven are healthy and dietary if you do not add various sauces and additives to them. They are useful in that they give energy, saturate the body with vitamins. In addition, this is a real treat that children and adults love.
By eating baked apples instead of regular ones, you are guaranteed to relieve yourself of the risk of diabetes, since sucrose breaks up and is absorbed quickly enough.