Baked apple - a healthy and delicious dessert!
What else does? That the delicacy was prepared simply and quickly.
The multicooker copes with this task perfectly.
It’s a pleasure to make baked apples in it.
Do not believe?
Baked apples in a slow cooker - general principles of preparation
Apples baked whole, halves and with different fillings. It all depends on the recipe and the ingredients used. For baking, you can use any kind of fruit, but they should not be broken and damaged. Whole apples are simply pricked in several places and sent to a slow cooker. But it’s much more interesting to cook fruit with different additives.
What is used for the filling:
• sugar, honey;
• nuts, dried fruits;
• berries;
• cottage cheese, cream cheese;
• various cereals;
• cinnamon, vanilla.
Often mixed several types of products and stuff the fruit. In apples, a hole is cut from the side of the stub. You can pre-cut the plate, which will serve as a hat. Large fruits can be simply cut in half and choose a center with seeds, you get unique boats.
Slow cooker before laying stuffed fruit grease with oil. Prepare a dish on the Baking program. Time is selected individually, depending on the type of apples used, the composition of the filling.
Recipe 1: Simple Baked Apples in a Multicooker
A wonderful way to cook baked apples in a slow cooker, which can be used for baby and diet food. If necessary, sugar can be eliminated or reduced.
Ingredients
• three apples;
• 3 tsp Sahara;
• 1 tsp without a hill of ground cinnamon;
• a slice of butter.
Cooking
1. Take a piece of butter and rub the bottom of the multicooker.
2. Turn on the "Baking" mode, let the unit until it heats up.
3. We wash the apples, remove the top cap, about 0.5 centimeters.
4. Take a small spoon and take out the stub along with the seeds. But do not pierce the fetus from the opposite side.
5. We shift apples to the slow cooker.
6. Mix granulated sugar with cinnamon. You can add a little vanilla instead or put both spices on it.
7. Evenly sprinkle aromatic sugar into each apple.
8. Cover with previously cut lids.
9. Close the slow cooker.
10. The baking time of apples largely depends on the variety and juiciness of the fruit. Sometimes 20 minutes is enough. Some apples and half an hour are not enough. Therefore, we regularly check the degree of readiness.
Recipe 2: Baked apples in a slow cooker with cottage cheese
A variant of stuffed apples in a slow cooker, for which you need ordinary cottage cheese. You can use already cooked curd mass as sweet stuffing, but it should not be liquid. Fruits for this dish are better to use large.
Ingredients
• 3-4 apples;
• 180 grams of cottage cheese;
• 2-3 tablespoons of sugar;
• 1 pinch of vanilla;
• 20 grams of butter;
• a little sour cream.
Cooking
1. Rinse the apples, cut out the middle so that the barrels turn out.
2. We mix cottage cheese with vanilla and sugar; honey can be used for filling. Add one or two tablespoons of sour cream to make the filling more tender.
3. If you use ready-made curd, then just knead with a spoon.
4. Fill the apples with sweet filling.
5. Lubricate the bottom of the multicooker, lay out the stuffed fruits at the same distance from each other.
6. Close the lid, turn on the “Baking” mode for 40 minutes. If the apples are soft, then 25 minutes is enough. In any case, after 20 minutes you need to check the readiness.
Recipe 3: Baked apples in a slow cooker with nuts and honey
A variant of baked apples in a slow cooker with an unusual aroma. It tastes best with walnuts. If desired, it can be fried a little, it will turn out even tastier.
Ingredients
• three apples;
• 30 grams of nuts;
• 70 grams of honey;
• some cinnamon;
• butter.
Cooking
1. Cut the nuts into pieces. Finely do not.
2. Add honey with cinnamon and stir.
3. Cut the middle of the apples, making a not very large hole.
4. Fill the prepared notch with sweet filling.
5. Stuff the stuffed fruits in the greased multicooker bowl.
6. Close and cook on the baking program for half an hour.
7. We take out the fruits, transfer to a dish, let the apples cool. The filling will be very hot.
8. Serve honey apples with ice cream, whipped cream, berries.
Recipe 4: Baked apples in a slow cooker with sweet rice
To cook such apples, you need boiled rice. It is not necessary to cook it specially, you can use the remaining side dish if no spices are present in the porridge.
Ingredients
• 0.12 grams of boiled rice;
• 50 grams of raisins;
• 1 tablespoon of sugar;
• 3-4 apples;
• 30 grams of oil.
Cooking
1. Rinse the raisins, put in a bowl and pour hot water. Leave for half an hour.
2. Drain the water and mix the swollen raisins with boiled rice, season with sugar. But you can do without it, since the grapes are quite sweet. Or add a spoonful of honey.
3. Remove the “lid” from the apples, cut out the stub, make a large hole for filling with rice.
4. Fill the notch with sweet filling.
5. Lubricate the bottom of the multicooker with oil.
6. The remaining piece of butter is divided by the number of apples and put on top of the filling.
7. We shift the fruit into the container for cooking, cover with cut lids.
8. Turn on the "baking" mode and cook for about twenty minutes. If necessary, you can add time.
Recipe 5: Baked apples in a slow cooker with hercules and strawberries
A variant of amazing apples that are filled with oatmeal. We use the product of quick cooking. You will also need several strawberries. Similarly, for the filling, you can use raspberries, blueberries, blackberries.
Ingredients
• 2 large apples;
• 2 tablespoons of oatmeal;
• 1 spoon of honey;
• 5-6 berries;
• butter.
Cooking
We wash the apples, cut out from them barrels with walls of 0.5 centimeters. Or cut into two halves and make boats. We choose the most attractive option. Set aside for now.
Pour the cereal into a bowl, add honey and grind.
Cut the strawberries in half. Large berries can be in four parts. Mix with cereal. If blueberries are used, then we put the whole, the same with currants and other small berries.
Fill apples with oat filling.
We shift the stuffed fruits into the capacity of the multicooker, previously lubricated with a piece of oil.
Bake on the "Baking" half an hour. Open, check the softness of the apple with a toothpick. If the fruit remains stiff, then extend the cooking time by ten minutes.
Recipe 6: Baked apples in a slow cooker with Ricotta and raspberries.
A variant of apples baked in a slow cooker with delicate filling. Instead of ricotta, you can use another dessert cheese, for example, Almette. Not bad with mascarpone. The amount of ingredients in two servings, we take large apples.
Ingredients
• 2 apples;
• 70 grams of ricotta;
• 50 grams of raspberries;
• 1-2 tablespoons of sugar;
• some oil.
Cooking
1. Combine the washed berries with cream cheese, add sugar. If the apples are acidic, you can add more sand. It can be replaced with honey to taste.
2. Cut off the tops of the washed apples, which will be the lids.
3. From most of the fruit we cut capacious barrels.
4. Fill apples with a filling of dessert cheese with berries.
5. Cover with lids and send to the greased capacity of the multicooker.
6. Bake on the appropriate program for about twenty minutes. In this dessert, the main fruit should remain a little firm and it is important that it does not fall apart.
Recipe 7: Baked apples in a slow cooker in puff pastry
A variant of amazing baked apples in a slow cooker, which are cooked in a dough. Such buns and pies will please everyone, without exception. We use the ready-made puff pastry, as long as it takes.
Ingredients
• 2 apples;
• puff pastry;
• 2 tablespoons of raisins;
• 2 tablespoons of honey;
• some cinnamon;
• butter;
• one yolk or the whole egg.
Cooking
1. Cut the notch on the side of the stub from apples, the lid can be left out.
2. We mix raisins with honey, fill the resulting holes. If desired, grapes can be soaked before this, so that they are juicier.
3. Roll out the puff pastry, the thickness is not more than 4 millimeters.
4. Cut two pieces into which apples can be wrapped.
5. Put stuffed fruit in the center, grease the edges and pinch together. We make an effort so that the joint joins.
6. Similarly, pack the second apple in the dough.
7. We shift to the greased multicooker.
8. On top of the dough, grease the egg, try not to get on the dish.
9. Close and bake the hour. Install the appropriate program.
Baked apples in a slow cooker - useful tips and tricks
• Apples will not darken, the flesh will remain natural if, after cutting, sprinkle the fruit with lemon juice or diluted acid.
• You can fill fruit not only with cottage cheese or berries. Very tasty are apples with fillings of chocolate, marshmallows, marmalade. You can pour jam into the hole or lay jam.
• To prevent the apple from breaking during baking, peel the skin in several places. You can do this with a fork or a toothpick.
• An effective serving of baked apples will make an amazing dessert out of a simple dish. The fruit can be supplemented with ice cream, whipped cream, jam, sprinkle with powder or chocolate. And the role of the apple leaf is perfectly performed by a sprig of mint.
• To prevent the filling from apples, fill the hole not to the very top and leave room for the filling to rise when boiling.
