Monday, October 30, 2006

Baked Apples



Here’s a simple recipe, the only thing time-consuming about it is coring the apple if you don’t have a corer. I adapted this recipe from Cook Right For Your Type by Dr Peter J. D’Adamo (with Catherine Whitney), published by Century, 2001. This can even be had for breakfast, the books suggests. The link will tell you a little about this diet but meanwhile, happy baking!
I substituted the maple syrup with 'lemon-honey'. I don’t know whether that’s allowed, but this recipe is given here solely for cooking/eating pleasure and the book acknowledged because I feel honour-bound to do so, certainly not to promote any diet nor take away from it with substitutions/additions/omissions.
Here’s how:

4 apples (Rome, Granny Smith, Fuji)
½ cup chopped walnuts
½ cup mixed dried figs and apricots – I softened dry apricots by soaking them in hot water for an hour but maybe it’s not necessary
juice of ½ lime (I used a full lime)
2 tbsps butter or margarine
1 cup (236 ml) boiling water
2 tbsps honey

Preheat oven to 180 C (350 F, Gas Mark 4). Core apples, make sure you don’t pierce the bottom. Mix walnuts, dried fruit and lemon juice. Pour enough honey over this mixture to moisten well. Fill apples without packing them too tightly. If the mixture mounds at the top, it’s alright. Put a bit of butter on the top and put apples in a baking dish. Pour boiling water into the dish around the apples. Bake 20-30 minutes till the apples are tender.
While they are baking, the book says, you can baste the apples with the pan juices. I’m wary about this so I didn’t do it. When apples are done, transfer to a serving dish, pour liquid in pan (and any fruit mixture left over) and reduce over medium heat until thickened. Pour sauce over apples before serving.
The end result was a not-very-sweet-until-you-came-to-the-filling apple, but it really seemed to work as a light dessert. Maybe you could try it with a bit of ice-cream, or you could scoop out more of the apple and put in more filling. If you try it, let me know!

9 comments:

  1. Looks delicious sra! I din't know I want to all that sugary stuff, but that's just me:)) I would love serve this for dessert though.
    Baked apples with flavored syrup sounds good! Good job!!

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  2. Hi sra,
    new & different recip for me thanks for sharing.keep posting.

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  3. Hi Asha, this is not sugary at all - I had to force myself not to eat it with any added sweetener.
    Deepa, hi, thanks for stopping by.

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  4. Hi Sra,
    The apples look yummm.
    --sandeepa

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  5. I do still have some apples left. nice one to try out.

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  6. Hi Shaheen, let me know whether it worked for you.

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  7. That's likes ages ago and those many yrs back, I did not know the variety of apples or their names. This seems a very healthy recipe to try. Must say a nice substitute to maple syrup, which we get easily now.

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  8. Pari, Granny Smith weren't available then, now they are!

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