Apples baked in the oven have wonderful taste and great benefits for the body. You can use them both as a daily and a festive dish - you just need to bake apples with cinnamon, honey, raisins, cottage cheese and other confectionery ingredients. So how do you choose the perfect apple to bake in the oven?
Choosing the best variety
Some of the most delicious are baked apples of Antonovka, Golden, Grand and Semerenko varieties, which have a loose, dense structure and delicious pulp. For cooking, it is better to choose large green fruits that have a sweet and sour taste and become even tastier during baking. Less tasty are yellow and red soft apple varieties, while green varieties are even suitable for cooking goose or duck with apples.
For baking, it is better to choose fruits with a strong peel and firm pulp, which has a slightly sour taste.
Saffron, Macintosh, Ranet and Granny Smith apples are also great for the oven. The first autumn-winter variety has a sweet and sour taste, an oval-conical shape and an orange peel with red stripes. Such apples are delicious and very juicy when baked, and their strudel is simply divine.
Baked Apples Recipe
Oven baked apples are ideal for the diet of people suffering from problems with the gastrointestinal tract, since their active components after heat treatment lose their acidity, retaining all the vitamins in their composition. In addition, the high temperature of the oven allows the body to better absorb the potassium found in baked apples.
So, in order to cook delicious baked apples, you need to take any of the above varieties, wash the fruits, cut off the lower tails from them and make a funnel on top. Through this funnel, you need to carefully remove the stalk and seeds, which are completely unnecessary in the preparation of apple dessert.
It is best to remove the insides of the apple with a vegetable or special knife, or with an ordinary small table knife.
Then put the peeled apples into a container (saucepan, baking sheet, baking dish), into which a little water is poured. The fruits must be placed in the container with the funnels facing up. You can add honey or sugar with raisins to each hole in the apple to taste, after which the container is placed in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. After ten to fifteen minutes, the pulp of the apples will acquire a tender and soft consistency. It is advisable to follow the baking process so that the peel of the fruit does not crack, and the apples themselves do not burst. Finished apples can be garnished with berries or whipped cream and served chilled.
