Baked apples can be served as a delicious and healthy dessert or breakfast. And these fruits are cooked in the oven very quickly and easily. The best time for baking is autumn, when suitable varieties are ripe.
To make the dessert sweet and beautiful, and the fruits retain their shape, you need to choose the right apple variety. The best options are Antonovka, Simirenko, Granny Smith and Golden. For cooking in the oven, try to select fruits of a similar size so that the baking time is the same.
First, the apples are prepared: they are thoroughly washed, and the ones bought in the store still need to be rubbed with a sponge in order to wash off the wax with which they are treated for long-term storage. Then carefully cut out the core with a sharp knife. And in the vacant hole you can put sugar, raisins, cottage cheese, cinnamon, honey, sour cream and other ingredients. Fruits are baked at a temperature not exceeding 180 ° C for 20-30 minutes. The exact time depends on the recipe and the amount of apples. And the readiness of the dish can be checked with a toothpick: the finished fruit is soft inside.
Of course, you can bake the fruit without adding other ingredients, but it will taste better if you pour sugar into the hole from the core. Put the fruits prepared in this way on a baking sheet, pour a little water into it and send to the oven for 20 minutes.
The apples will turn out to be soft, sweet, and you can pour syrup over them before serving.
If you add not only sugar to fruits, they can decorate any celebration. To cook them in the oven for the holiday, you will need 8 large green apples, 150 g of sugar, 1, 5 glasses of water, 2 tsp. cinnamon, 150 g each raisins and nuts.
Apples are washed and cored, put on a baking sheet. The remaining ingredients are mixed in a plate: sugar, raisins, nuts and cinnamon. The resulting mixture is filled with fruit holes, water is poured into a baking sheet. The apples are placed in the oven and baked at 190 ° C for about 30 minutes.
You can also use pine nuts, pistachios, raisins, almonds, dried apricots, currants, etc. as a filling.
