Stunning, but very simple products in the most predictable combinations, and even with very unpretentious cooking give a result that is difficult to beat for professionals with a full range of delicacies.
And if you try to compete "for speed", then here too the "specialists" will bypass the fans - a couple of minutes to clean the fruits, a quarter of an hour in the oven, another minute - pour honey.
And that’s it!
And the aroma, and the taste ...
Apples in the oven with honey - general principles of cooking
• For cooking in the oven with honey, it is best to choose late varieties of apples with a green peel. The pulp is quite dense and suitable sweet and sour taste. Ideal for baking varieties - Semerenko, Antonovka.
• Fruits for such dishes are left whole, cut into slices or small slices and be sure to remove the middle, while trying to remove all partitions.
• Depending on the cooked dish, the desired variety and type of honey is selected, this is indicated in the recipe.
• Honey is put in the funnel remaining after removing the middle or pour the cut fruit on it. In addition, various fillings are prepared with honey, with which apples are filled.
• As the fillings, use cottage cheese, dried fruits mixed with nuts or cream filling from the same fruits with cream.
• Pumpkin with raisins can be added to chopped apples baked in the oven with honey.
• Served baked apples not only on their own. An unusual dessert can be prepared from these fruits for a romantic dinner, if after baking pour them with specially prepared wine sauce or cooked with vanilla caramel.
Apples in the oven with honey - Vitaminka
Ingredients:
• five ripe hard apples;
• natural buckwheat honey - 60 grams;
• one small lemon.
Cooking method:
1. On the side of the tails, cut a small piece that looks like a “lid” on the side of the tail and remove the seed box with the tip of the knife with the seeds.
2. Cut the lemon into thin rings and put one such ring into each apple. Add to the lemon an incomplete teaspoon of buckwheat honey and cover with a “lid”.
3. Put the filled apples in a small mold and put in a hot oven.
4. Bake with honey for 15 minutes at 220 degrees.
Apples in the oven with honey
Ingredients:
• three table. tablespoons of liquid "mixed" honey;
• dark raisins - 50 grams;
• apples - 300 grams;
• 60 grams of dried apricots;
• 3 tbsp. tablespoons of almonds;
• one tsp cinnamon powder.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse the dried apricots with raisins and soak separately, for half an hour in warm water. Strain the water, rinse again and dry well by spreading the dried fruit on a towel. Dry dried apricots with raisins cut into the same not very small pieces.
2. Slightly fry the almonds and chop finely in a chilled form.
3. Mix the chopped ingredients, add cinnamon with honey and mix thoroughly. Fill the apples with the mixture and bake in the oven.
4. Bake at 180 degrees, 25-30 minutes.
5. Before serving, sprinkle baked fruit with powdered sugar.
Dessert from apples baked in the oven with honey - "The sun in a glass"
Ingredients:
• three kilograms of apples;
• honey.
For the sauce:
• one and a half bottles of dry white wine;
• yolks 12 pieces;
• sugar - 300 grams;
• vanillin - a small bag.
Cooking method:
1. Pounded in sugar, egg yolks pour hot wine. Add vanillin and beat until thick. If the sauce suddenly turns out to be too thick, dilute it with wine.
2. From peeled, whole apples, carefully remove the middle from the side of the stalk. Put a teaspoon of meadow honey in the recess and bake the fruits at 180 degrees for a quarter of an hour.
3. Arrange the fruit in wide glasses and fill it with the prepared wine sauce. Cool well.
Apples in the oven with honey - "Roses in the Snow"
Ingredients:
• layer of puff (frozen) dough;
• lemon acid;
• apples;
• liquid light honey;
• ground cinnamon;
• powdered sugar.
Cooking method:
1. One hour before cooking lay out the defrosted puff pastry.
2. Rinse the apples well under the tap and wipe dry with a towel. Cut the fruit in half and cut each half into thin slices, these will be the "petals".
3. Immerse them in water with citric acid diluted in it (for one glass of water, a small pinch of acid) and put in the microwave to warm for three minutes. Then put the apples on a linen towel and dry a little.
4. Semi-finished puff pastry roll a little rolling pin and cut into small strips, 4 cm wide and 17 cm long. Lubricate the strips with honey.
5. Carefully lay out the “petals”, lightly laying them on top of each other so that they, with their rounded part, almost half out of the strip of dough, and cut only reach half of it. Sprinkle with cinnamon.
6. Wrap the free part of the dough on apples and roll the strip with a roll, - you get a "rose".
7. So that the "buds" during baking do not turn around and do not lose their shape, put them in the recesses for cupcakes on a large silicone mold.
8. Place the “roses” form in the oven at 190 degrees for no more than 45 minutes.
9. When the products have cooled, sprinkle the "roses" with powdered sugar.
Apples in the oven with honey and curd filling
Ingredients:
• 7 apples, medium size;
• 150 grams of fat cottage cheese;
• one egg yolk;
• 60 grams of light raisins;
• 2 tbsp. l honey;
• 50 grams of toasted almonds;
• half teaspoon cinnamon powder
• 0.5 medium lemon.
Cooking method:
1. Soaked raisins soaked for five minutes in boiling water. Squeeze out all the water and, putting it on a sieve, dry it a little.
2. Scrub the zest with a fine grater from the lemon. Stir the honey well with freshly squeezed lemon juice (1 tsp), chop the almonds finely, and grind the cottage cheese twice through a sieve.
3. Carefully grind the curd with a yolk, diluted with lemon juice, honey, zest and ground cinnamon. You should get a smooth yellow mass with a splash of cinnamon.
4. Add finely chopped almonds, dried raisins and mix everything thoroughly again.
5. Without cutting through the apple, carefully remove the middle with a small thin knife so that a small but wide enough funnel forms in the fruit. This is best done by the stalk.
6. Fill the funnel with the curd and move the fruit onto a baking sheet lined with foil or parchment sheet.
7. Bake in the oven fruits filled with cottage cheese, at 180 degrees for half an hour.
Apples in the Oven with Honey - Drunk Apples
Ingredients:
• three small apples;
• dessert wine - 4 tbsp. l .;
• one hundred grams of dark raisins, pitted;
• dark honey - 4 tbsp. spoons.
Cooking method:
1. Half the fruit, remove the core and, without peeling, cut each piece into thin slices.
2. Put the sliced fruits in layers in a refractory form, pouring each layer with washed raisins.
3. Pour the apples laid out in the form of honey melted in a steam bath. Pour in the wine, cover with a sheet of foil and place in the oven.
4. Bake at medium temperature (190 degrees), 35 minutes.
Baked apples with honey caramel
Ingredients:
• ripe apples, any sweet and sour variety - 3 pcs.;
• 3.2% pasteurized milk - 100 ml;
• cocoa powder - 1 tsp;
• a third of a teaspoon of cinnamon powder;
• three tablespoons of honey;
• one raw yolk;
• one teaspoon of starch, potato;
• 25 grams of sweet cream butter.
Cooking method:
1. Mix cinnamon with starch and cocoa. Grind the mixture with raw yolk well and fill with hot milk. Thoroughly, until smooth, stir with a whisk, put the butter and bring to a boil.
2. Wash the apples, wipe dry with a towel and cut each into two halves along.
3. Remove the seeds and place the fruit at 200 degrees in the oven.
4. After a quarter of an hour, remove the baked fruits from the oven, fill them with cooked cream and bring to readiness by putting them back into the oven for 10 minutes.
Apples in the oven with honey and unusual creamy filling
Ingredients:
• six small apples;
• two large spoons of linden honey;
• 11% cream, natural - 50 ml;
• 1 raw yolk;
• 1/2 lemon;
• a large handful of peeled hazelnut kernels;
• cinnamon - two sticks.
Cooking method:
1. Peel apples (4 pcs.) Using a special vegetable knife and peel them into two halves. If fruit with “ponytails”, be sure to remove them.
2. With a knife, carefully remove the middle of the fruit with the seeds in it and place the apples, combining both parts of each, in a baking dish.
3. Pour some water into the mold so that it covers the fruit by only one centimeter, and put in the oven. Bake for half an hour, at 200 degrees.
4. Peel the remaining two apples and grate with a medium grater. Add lemon zest, honey, yolk, lemon juice, cream and mix well.
5. Fold the foil several times and make low portion rings out of it. The width of the rings depends on the size of the fruit. They should fit freely in rings. If you have special serving rings, you can use them.
6. Remove the fruit from the oven. Transfer the lower halves to portioned rings, set in a different form, and fill them with the filling, 2-3 cm. Put the upper halves of the baked fruits on top of the filling.
7. Between the rings put the cinnamon sticks and set to bake for another half hour, but already at 180 degrees.
8. In the baking process, periodically you need to get out and pour apples with the allocated juice.
9. Cool the prepared fruit and serve, sprinkling with finely chopped nuts. Fry the nuts well before chopping in a dry frying pan or bake in the oven.
"Sunny apples" - apples in the oven with honey and pumpkin
Ingredients:
• pumpkin - 400 grams;
• 300 grams of apples, Antonovka variety;
• 3 tbsp. l honey;
Cooking method:
1. Wash the pumpkin thoroughly under the tap, cut off the peel from it, capturing the firm flesh slightly greenish under it. Select all the seeds together with the fibers and cut the pumpkin pulp into small two-centimeter slices, one centimeter wide.
2. With approximately the same pieces, cut apples without peel, seeds and partitions.
3. In any thick-walled dishes lay in layers: pieces of pumpkin pulp, chopped fruit, pumpkin again, fruit again.
4. In a separate bowl, mix honey with freshly squeezed lemon juice and ten tablespoons of cold water. Mix everything well and pour plenty of honey lined with pumpkin fruit with a honey mixture.
5. Bake forty minutes at 180 degrees.
Apples in the oven with honey - baking tricks and useful tips
• To prevent whole apples from bursting during baking, pierce them in several places with a toothpick.
• If for cooking in the oven you decide to take red or pink late or mid-ripening varieties, try to choose very hard, unripe fruits
• If you overdo the apples in the oven, baked whole, the flesh will become too soft and will "spill over".
