What associations do you call the word "dessert"? Many people will first of all remember the sweet cakes, cakes or other delicacies with cream. Others will think of ice cream or whipped cream with fruit. But you will agree that the listed dishes are not really useful because of their high caloric content and fat content. But you want to treat yourself to something tasty, easy and useful at the same time. It turns out that you can easily prepare very simple and excellent desserts - baked fruit with various fillings. Using natural ingredients makes these dishes low-calorie and especially useful for children. In this article there are some tips and recommendations on how to cook delicious apples, baked in the oven. The photo clearly demonstrates the stages of filling fruits. Change their contents and get new dishes.
Bake apples in the oven: preparation of fruit
It is best to take the fruits of sweet and sour varieties withelastic pulp. Apples do not need to be peeled off the peel, since the outer shkurochka will act as a "case" with a softened inner flesh. Wash the fruit and gently cut the inner contents together with the bones. For these purposes, a special knife is often used. It is very important to leave the bottom part of the whole, otherwise the filling with baking can simply flow out through the hole on the baking tray. Often make an appetizing dessert without stuffing, just laying apples in a uniform in one layer. The dish is considered ready after a minor blanching.
Bake apples in the oven: preparation of the filling
There can be many options - from fresh anddried fruit to cottage cheese or custard. It is most useful to mix all possible components for the stuffing not with sugar, but with honey. Dried fruits before filling the "molds" must first be soaked in water for a while. To improve the taste, spices such as vanilla and cinnamon are often used.
Bake apples in the oven: stuffing
Prepared fruits do not fill to the brim to avoid leakage. In fact at apples at a baking a pulp is softened, allocating juice. Therefore, the filling can be slightly "up".
Bake apples in the oven: recipe with dried apricots, raisins and lemon
Take seven to eight medium-sized green apples andprepare them by removing the core. Dried apricots (100-150 g) finely chopped and mixed with two tablespoons of raisins and one lemon, twisted through the meat grinder along with the peel. In the mass, put two tablespoons of honey and half a teaspoon of cinnamon. Throw in a good mix. Fill the filling with fruits, placing cream cheese on top of each teaspoon. Fruit put on a greased baking sheet. Now it is important to properly bake apples in the oven. The temperature should not rise above one hundred and eighty degrees during the entire cooking time. Otherwise, the fruit will burn outside, remaining inside damp. In twenty or thirty minutes the dessert will be ready. Apples should be slightly rosy on top. In this case, the color of the fruit will change from green to cream-brown. Bon Appetit!
