Cooking apples in a slow cooker is a pleasure. Only one smell that spreads around the apartment, which is worth it. Fast, tasty, healthy! Apples are steamed, stewed, baked, stuffed with various sweets.
How to cook apples in a slow cooker?
The easiest way to cook baked apples in a slow cooker is as follows:
You will need: 6 apples, 3 tablespoons of honey, ½ teaspoon of cinnamon, vanilla sugar, whipped cream or ice cream.
How to cook:
- Wash the apples thoroughly, cut out the core with a special knife, along with the seeds and seed pods, gradually making a deepening. Leave the wall thickness at your discretion, depending on the amount of filling.
- The surface of each apple must be pricked with a toothpick so that the skin does not burst during the baking process.
- Mix cinnamon and vanilla sugar, gently stir the mixture into liquid honey.
- Fill the apples with honey and place them on the bottom of a multicooker greased with butter.
- Set the "Baking" mode and bake apples for 30 minutes. If the apples are very hard, then the process stretches up to 45-50 minutes.
- Put each apple on a separate plate, laying next to slides of whipped cream or small scoops of ice cream. If, during baking, caramel formed at the bottom of the bowl, then you can pour it over an apple.
To make apples baked with honey especially fragrant and tasty, it is better to use the varieties Ranet, Antonovka, Smith, Mackintosh or Granny. These are those apples that have a strong peel, dense pulp and a sour taste. It is from them that a delicious dessert is obtained with the most delicate pulp and with a divine aroma.
Apples in the Redmond slow cooker
Stuffed apples in puff pastry.
You will need: 4 fairly large apples, 1 layer of puff pastry, 50 g of honey, 50 g of peeled walnuts, ½ teaspoon of butter.
How to cook:
- Wash the apples, remove the stalk, cut out the core with seeds and seed pods with a special knife.
- Cut the walnuts into small pieces and mix them with honey.
- Fill apples with sweet mixture.
- Cut out 4 squares of 15x15 cm from puff pastry.
- Put an apple on each square and firmly connect the ends of the square above it, as if wrapping the apple in a handkerchief.
- Lubricate the bottom of the multicooker bowl with butter and put the apples in the dough.
- Set the "baking" mode and bake apples for one hour.
- Put the finished dessert on a plate and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
- If desired, fresh berries, dried fruits, jam, condensed milk, cheese can be used to fill apples.
Baked apples in a slow cooker means to please your loved ones with a delicious and healthy dessert.
When you want to cook a delicious and at the same time healthy dessert, many housewives prefer to make baked apples in a slow cooker. With the help of this kitchen unit, fruits are prepared without much difficulty, and a variety of recipes allows you to choose a delicacy according to your taste and mood, as well as based on the availability of certain products.
Baked apples are easy to prepare, but in order for them to have a rich taste and aroma, retain a fresh shade and shape, you need to know a few secrets.
- Any variety of apples is suitable for baking, as long as they have juicy pulp and a dense peel, and are undamaged. However, sweet fruits when baked are less tasty and fragrant than fruits with sourness. Apples of the Antonovka variety and similar ones are considered ideal for baking.
- When baking whole apples, they must be pierced in several places with a toothpick. As a result, they won't crack when baked. Otherwise, the dessert will not look appetizing.
- Stuffed apples can be baked in two ways. One option is to cut the core out of a whole apple and put the filling in its place. Another option is to cut the apple in half, remove the core and put the filling in the resulting recess. In any case, it is important to preserve the color of the apple. So that the apple pulp does not darken, it is sprinkled with lemon juice.
- For baking apples in a slow cooker, the Baking program is most often used. If the "Multipovar" function is provided, it can also be used. In this case, the multicooker bowl must be lubricated with vegetable or butter. Sometimes apples are baked in stewing mode. In this case, a little water, juice or syrup is poured into the bottom. The baking time depends on the power of the multicooker, the choice of program and the size of the fruits themselves. Usually it is 40-50 minutes.
As the filling in the preparation of stuffed baked apples, cottage cheese, dried fruits, berries, honey, rice and oatmeal are most often taken, but other ingredients can also be used.
Whole baked apples in a slow cooker
- apples - 0.8 kg;
- sugar - 20 g;
- ground cinnamon - 10 g;
- butter - 40 g.
Cooking method:
- Wash the apples. Pat them dry with a paper towel. Make several deep vertical cuts around the stalk, not cutting all the way to the bottom. Carefully cut off the top with the stem. Using a small spoon, remove the core, being careful not to break the integrity of the fruit.
- Mix sugar with cinnamon, distribute over apples, pouring into the holes formed. Cover with a “lid” - a cut top with a stalk.
- Grate the butter in small chunks directly into the multicooker bowl. Turn on the "Baking" mode by setting the timer for 40 minutes. When the butter is melted, put the apples into the bowl and lower the lid.
- After 20 minutes, check if the apples are ready. If they are not yet soft enough, bake them for another 10 minutes until the next check. If necessary, continue cooking apples until the program has finished.
You can serve apples without decorating them with anything, but they will be much tastier and more appetizing if you sprinkle them with honey or put whipped cream on them before serving.
Apples baked with cottage cheese and nuts
- apples - 1 kg;
- sugar - 20 g;
- chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- cottage cheese - 0.2 kg;
- lemon juice - 5 ml;
- vanillin - 1 g;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- walnut kernels - 50 g.
Cooking method:
- Wash the apples, cut off the top, remove the core with a knife or spoon. Sprinkle with lemon juice.
- Crush the walnut kernels. You can use a blender or just crush the nuts with a knife.
- In a bowl, mash the cottage cheese with a fork, break an egg into it, add sugar, vanillin, nuts. Stir thoroughly to get a homogeneous mass.
- Stuff the apples with curd. It should barely reach the brim. If you put too much filling, then when baking, it will rise and begin to boil away.
- Lubricate the container of the multicooker with oil, put fruit in it. Activate the "Baking" program for 40 minutes.
Before serving apples to the table, it is enough to pour them with the syrup formed during baking from the bottom of the multicooker.
Apples baked with cottage cheese and raisins
- apples - 0.7 kg;
- cottage cheese - 0.2 kg;
- sugar - 20 g;
- raisins - 100 g;
- butter - 50 g;
- cinnamon - 1 stick;
- mint - 6 leaves.
Cooking method:
- Wash the apples, dry them and cut in half, cut out the core.
- Mix cottage cheese with raisins and sugar, fill them with apples.
- Chop the butter into small pieces in the multicooker bowl.
- Run the Baking program for half an hour. When the butter is melted, put the apples into the bowl.
At the end of the program, transfer the apples to plates, garnish with a piece of cinnamon and a mint leaf.
Apples baked with nuts and honey
- apples - 0.6 kg;
- walnut kernels - 30 g;
- honey - 70 g;
- lemon - 0.5 pcs.;
- butter - 40 g.
Cooking method:
- After washing and drying the fruits, cut them in half and cut out the core, without making the recesses too large.
- Squeeze the juice from half a lemon, grease the apples with it at the cut points.
- Cut the kernels with a knife, not too finely.
- Grate the zest of half a lemon.
- Melt the honey to a semi-liquid state and mix it with the zest and nuts.
- Place a teaspoon of the sweet mass into the indentations in each apple.
- Lubricate the multicooker bowl with softened butter and put fruit in it.
- Bake with the lid closed in the “Baking” mode for 30 minutes.
Apples baked according to this recipe are best served with whipped cream or ice cream. If desired, you can add a little raisins or chopped dried apricots to the filling. In this case, the dessert will turn out even tastier and healthier.
Apples baked in dough
- apples - 1 kg (5 pcs.);
- flour - 0.27 kg;
- butter - 0.18 kg;
- salt - a pinch;
- powdered sugar - 100-130 g;
- berry jam - 100 g.
Cooking method:
- After washing the apples, cut off the top of them, cut out the core, leaving the bottom.
- Fill apples with jam.
- From the sifted flour, powdered sugar, salt and 150 g of butter, knead the dough. Divide into 5 parts, roll each piece into a ball, wrap in foil and put in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- Take out pieces of dough one at a time, roll and wrap the apples in the dough so that the hole through which the jam peeks out coincides with the center of the dough circle.
- Grease the multicooker bowl with the remaining butter. To do this, it should be cut into small pieces, put on the bottom and turn on the baking or frying mode. As soon as the butter is melted, the slow cooker can be temporarily turned off, and the butter is spread along the bottom with a cooking brush.
- Put the apples in the batter into the bowl and bake them using the Bake (or Bake) program for 40 minutes.
This dessert is served with jam or whipped cream. It also goes well with ice cream.
Apples baked in a slow cooker are one of the healthiest desserts, especially if you use honey instead of sugar, include cottage cheese, dried fruits in the filling. Cooking it is not difficult even for a novice confectioner.
Apples, baked in oven are not only tasty, but also useful. Prunes and nuts as a filling go well with fragrant baked apple pulp. I used to bake apples in the oven, but now with the help of a slow cooker it is much faster and easier to cook such a dessert. To prepare this wonderful dessert, I used a Philips HD 3039 multicooker with a power of 960 watts.
To prepare baked apples, we need the following ingredients: apples, honey, nuts and prunes.
Wash the apples, cut off the top and remove the core, making a small indentation.
Rinse prunes, put 3 pieces in each apple.
Fry the hazelnuts and grind into large crumbs. Sprinkle nuts over apple filling.
Put a spoonful of honey on each apple. Poke holes in the apples on all sides with a toothpick.
Cover the bottom of the multicooker with baking paper. Set stuffed apples.
Bake on the "Baking" program for 25-30 minutes. During baking, periodically open to check the apples, the peel is wrinkled or burst - the dessert is ready. Then let the apples cool down.
What is the easiest dessert for kids you know? Many will surely remember about - a delicacy familiar to everyone since childhood. With the advent of multicookers in the kitchen arsenal, such a dessert can be prepared even easier than before.
Apples baked in a slow cooker are very juicy and tasty. The advantage of this cooking method is the absence of heat from the oven, as well as the maximum preservation of all the nutrients in apples.
There are a lot of recipes for making baked apples: they can be stuffed with homemade cottage cheese, baked in portions or whole.
Ingredients:
large apple - 4 pcs. (you can take small ones, they will bake faster)
honey - 2 teaspoons
ground cinnamon - 4 pinches
butter - a small piece
Apples in a slow cooker, recipe:
Wash apples thoroughly. If possible, you should choose green, if red - that is. thick-skinned varieties.
With a sharp knife or vegetable cutter, remove the core of the apple, but it is not necessary to “pierce” the apple to the end. The main thing is to remove the seeds. You do not need to peel the peel, you need to bake the whole apples.
To slightly enhance the taste of apples, put a pinch of ground cinnamon in the middle of each.
Grease the bottom of the multicooker pan with softened butter.
Put the apples in the pan, hole side up.
Turn on the multicooker, select the “Baking” mode, set the timer to 1 hour.
If you have smaller and softer apples, then it may take less time - about 40 minutes.
Today, a multicooker is no longer a luxury, but a vital household appliance. This appliance allows you to cook a variety of dishes. One of them is a delicious baked apple dessert.
How to choose fruits?
The taste of the finished dessert will depend on the choice of raw materials. Many people think that the sweeter the fruit, the better. But no: in this case, a thin-skinned sweet apple, even with a lot of sugar, will not have a taste, it will quickly fall apart under the influence of heat treatment. The best option is sour apples. For example, Antonovka, Simirenko. They are hard, sour, have a tough peel. Few prefer to consume these varieties raw. But for baking, they are perfect as well as possible. An exception in this case should be made for those suffering from pancreatitis, since sour varieties can exacerbate the disease. Therefore, only sweet apples are acceptable for them, and then in small quantities (you can start with a half, in the absence of pain, allow yourself the whole).
When choosing whole apples for baking, do not take too large or small fruits, the best option is a medium-sized fruit. It should not have damage, wormholes. If only large fruits are available, they are cut in half, the core is cleaned, the required ingredients are added.
Peeling the fruit from the peel is not required. With the “5P” diet, which occurs with pancreatitis, it is recommended to remove the peel from an apple, but in practice such a fruit will spread and an unpresentable product will turn out. In this case, it is better to bake an apple in a peel, and in the process of consumption, remove the skin from it.
For every housewife, in the end result, it is important to get an attractive dish so that the fruits are whole and not cracked. The cooking time also affects the last moment: after half an hour, the apples may begin to burst. Another factor to consider is the power of the household appliance, so before using it, it is important to read the instructions and individually adjust the cooking time.
Preparation of ingredients
The cooking process begins with preparation.
Each fruit is thoroughly washed and dried with a clean, dry towel. Using a sharp knife, the middle is removed, but this is done carefully. The result is a neat funnel (in no case do you need to cut through the fruit to the end).
So that the fruits do not darken, after a funnel-shaped recess is cut out, it does not hurt to sprinkle them with a small amount of lemon juice or a solution of citric acid. Fine granulated sugar or honey is added to the funnel.
With a toothpick or a fork, punctures are made in the skin in several places. This will keep the fruit from bursting.
The apple can be stuffed. Berries, nuts, cereals, dried fruits, cottage cheese, walnuts (almonds, hazelnuts and pine nuts), pumpkin, candied fruit, banana, as well as marmalade, chocolate, marshmallows are used as fillings. Used to fill funnels with jam and preserves.
At the same time, it should be remembered that the recess should not be filled to the brim, since jam can flow out when boiling.
A whole apple can be covered with a cut top on top. Given individual taste preferences, you can sprinkle it with cinnamon.
General principles of preparation
The process of cooking baked apples in a slow cooker cannot be called complicated, but the cooking technology should be followed.
The bottom of the pan of the appliance is lubricated with vegetable or butter. Fruits are stacked in one layer with slices up. To prepare the delicacy, the baking mode is used (cooking time is from 30 minutes to 1 hour).
After turning off the device, the apples are transferred to a dish in which they cool. They are eaten warm or chilled. The dish can be watered with fruit syrup or sprinkled with powdered sugar. For a spectacular presentation, it is complemented by whipped cream, chocolate chips, mint sprig.
With what and how can you bake?
There are many recipes with which you can cook apples baked in a slow cooker, which makes it possible to choose a new combination of foods each time, get new taste sensations.
Consider the most delicious and simple ways to cook baked apples in a slow cooker.
With sugar or honey
This option is optimal for dietary and baby food.
You should take a teaspoon of sugar for one apple, preferably brown (sugar can be eliminated by replacing it with a teaspoon of flower honey), a piece of butter, a teaspoon of cinnamon (added as desired).
The bottom of the bowl is lubricated, the baking mode is turned on. At the same time, apples are being prepared: the hat is cut off, the core is cleaned, granulated sugar is placed in the hollow, the hat is returned to its place. Next comes the baking process.
With cottage cheese and raisins
Little peanuts can be difficult to feed with cottage cheese. To solve this problem, this wonderful dish was created.
Sweet minced meat is made: 2 tablespoons of sugar, 100 g of raisins, a pinch of vanilla, a little sour cream are added to 150 g of cottage cheese to obtain the desired consistency (but it should not be too liquid). Can be used for stuffing and honey.
The resulting mass is distributed into four apples with a cut out middle. Take 20 g of butter to lubricate the bottom. In the baking mode, the cooking process takes place, which, depending on the type of product, takes from 25 to 40 minutes (readiness should be checked after 20 minutes).
With cottage cheese and nuts
Since not all consumers of desserts are fans of raisins, it is possible to offer a combination of healthy cottage cheese with no less healthy nuts.
It is required to take 4 larger apples, 200 g of cottage cheese, 50 g of walnuts, 2 tbsp. l. sugar, 1 egg, lemon juice, vanillin, vegetable oil for greasing the mold.
Washed and peeled apple halves should be sprinkled with lemon juice. Cottage cheese is kneaded in a small container, to which chopped walnut kernels, granulated sugar, vanillin are added. All this is thoroughly mixed until a homogeneous mass is obtained. This mass is the filling for the prepared halves. Filled cups are placed on the bottom of the device, previously lubricated with oil. 40 minutes after the activation of the baking program, the dish is ready.
With honey and nuts
Another recipe for those who like to indulge in nuts. For one apple, 25 g of honey, 10 g of walnuts, cinnamon, oil for lubrication are taken.
Nuts are crushed, but not to a fine state. The recess in the apple is filled with nuts, honey is placed on top, lightly sprinkled with cinnamon. The following is the standard procedure.
With hercules and strawberries
The collaboration of hercules and berries gives maximum pleasure and benefit. Apples need to be taken larger in the amount of two pieces. They should be cut in half. Free from the bones, making a recess in the middle - it turns out a boat.
These boats are filled with filling, for which you should take 2 tbsp. l. instant hercules, 1 tbsp. l. honey, 5-6 strawberries (variations are possible: raspberries, blackberries, currants, blueberries). Oil will be needed to lubricate the bowl.
The flakes are placed in a bowl, rubbed with honey. Strawberries, depending on the size, are cut into two or four parts, mixed with cereal. In the case of using small blueberries or currants, cutting is not required - they are put whole. The prepared filling fills the recesses in the apples, which are baked in the baking mode for half an hour, and if necessary, even longer.
with rice
A zealous hostess will not lose the side dish left over from dinner. Boiled rice, provided there are no spices in it, is very suitable for stuffing apples baked in a slow cooker.
For 3 medium apples, take 1 tbsp. l. sugar, 50 g raisins, 100 g boiled rice. Prepare butter for greasing and stuffing.
The raisins are steamed, after half an hour the water is drained, and the raisins take part in the preparation of the mixture with rice. The mixture is seasoned with sugar (it can be replaced with honey). The top in the form of a lid is removed from the apple, the core is removed and an impromptu pot is obtained, which is filled with cooked minced meat. A piece of butter is placed on top of the filling, and all this is covered with a cut lid on top.
In puff pastry
Such an original and simple recipe will provide a cozy tea party with the family or help out if guests are expected.
For two apples you need to take 2 tbsp. l. raisins, 2 tbsp. l. honey, ready-made puff pastry, the yolk of one egg, cinnamon, oil for greasing the bottom.
Honey mixed with pre-soaked raisins is poured into the recess cut in the fruit.
The dough is rolled out with a thickness of 3-4 mm, pieces of such a shape and size are cut out of it, in which it is convenient to wrap apples.
The fruit is wrapped in this “clothes”, the edges are carefully pinched. The finished pie is placed on the bottom of the multicooker bowl, greased with vegetable oil. An egg yolk is applied on top of the product with a brush. Baked for an hour.
In the test
A pie version of baked apples is another recipe, according to which you should take 5 fruits, 300 g flour, 200 g butter, 100 g icing sugar, currant jam (you can use any other fruit) - 100 g, salt. In clean apples, the core is cut out, jam is laid out in the resulting pits.
Flour is sifted through a sieve. 180 g of oil are added to it (the remaining 20 g will be used to lubricate the form), powdered sugar, salt. The dough is kneaded and divided into 5 equal parts. Balls are formed, each is wrapped in a piece of food foil and sent to the cold (for about half an hour). Then, in turn, each piece is rolled out, an apple is placed in it so that the center of the rolled circle coincides with the hole in the apple through which the jam peeps through.
Using the baking program, the dessert will be ready in 40 minutes.
With prunes and dried apricots
The dish will appeal to both little gourmets and their parents.
To implement the recipe, you should prepare 4 apples, 2 pieces of dried apricots and prunes (you can take one thing), 100 g of cottage cheese, a little sugar and ground cinnamon - according to the individual preferences of consumers.
Dried fruits are poured with hot water for five minutes. Softened slices of dried fruit are cut into several pieces, mixed with cottage cheese, granulated sugar and cinnamon powder. Prepared hollows of apples are filled with the mixture. They are placed on the bottom of the appliance bowl greased with butter. Traditionally, the baking mode is used for half an hour. Alternatively, you can use the stewing program if you want to get a steamed product.
These apples are served warm with fruit jam or honey.
With dessert cheese
Delicate filling will create a unique taste of the dessert. You can use varieties such as Ricotta, Mascarpone, Almette.
The calculation of the ingredients is presented for two large apples - 70 g of cheese, 50 g of raspberries, 1 tbsp. l. granulated sugar, a little oil for greasing the mold.
Fruits are being prepared: the top is cut off, which will act as a lid, a barrel is formed from the main part of the apple (the middle is cut out more).
Berries are combined with cheese, sugar is added. The barrels are filled with cheese mass, covered with improvised lids, and sent for baking for 20 minutes. The baked fruit should be slightly firm in order to hold the shape of the finished product.
In addition to the above recipes, there is a fairly simple way to bake apples in a slow cooker for a nursing mother. A novice housewife who does not have practical skills in working with food products can be offered to bake apples in pieces. In this case, cleanly washed, pitted fruits are cut into cubes (you can slice or slice). The original workpiece is placed on the oiled bottom of the device in one layer, which is sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon powder on top.
Instead of sugar, honey can be used if there is no allergy to this product. For such pieces, a shorter baking time is required than for whole fruits: usually 15-20 minutes are enough (the time depends on the variety, the thickness of the cut pieces). Such baked apple slices or cubes can take place as an independent dessert dish, or they can be an addition to ice cream, pancakes, pancakes.
How to cook delicious baked apples in a slow cooker, see the following video.
