Baked Apples With Mincemeat Cherries And Walnuts Recipes

BAKED APPLES WITH MINCEMEAT, CHERRIES, AND WALNUTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F. Boil first 3 ingredients in large skillet until reduced to 1 1/4 cups, about 12 minutes.
• Meanwhile, cut cone-shaped piece from stem end of each apple, 2 inches wide at top and 1 inch deep. Using melon baller, core, leaving bottom intact. Turn apple on its side. Starting halfway down, make 1/4-inch-deep slit all around. Mix mincemeat, walnuts, cherries, and crystallized ginger in small bowl; spoon into apples, mounding in center.
• Arrange apples in 11x7x2-inch baking dish. Spoon cider mixture over and around. Bake until apples are tender, about 45 minutes. Serve in shallow bowls.

BAKED APPLES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Scoop out the core from top of the apple, leaving a well. Do not cut all the way through. Stuff each apple with 2 tablespoons brown sugar and 1 tablespoon butter. Place in a shallow baking dish and sprinkle with cinnamon.
• Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes, until sugar begins to caramelize and apples are tender.

BAKED APPLES WITH CANDIED WALNUTS

Steps:

• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 450°F. Oil a baking sheet.
• Halve apples lengthwise and remove core with a melon-ball cutter or a paring knife. Melt butter in a 10-inch heavy ovenproof skillet over moderate heat and sprinkle with 1/2 tablespoon sugar. Arrange apple halves, cut sides down, on sugar and cook, undisturbed, until sugar begins to caramelize, 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer skillet to oven and bake apples until tender, about 15 minutes.
• While apples are baking, cook remaining 1/4 cup sugar with salt in a dry 7- to 8-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat, undisturbed, until sugar begins to melt, about 2 minutes. Continue to cook, stirring occasionally with a fork, until sugar is melted into a deep golden caramel, 1 to 2 minutes more. Remove from heat. Add walnuts, stirring to coat, then pour onto baking sheet and cool 10 minutes. Break nuts into small pieces if necessary.
• Stir together yogurt and 2 teaspoons honey.
• Serve apples, cut sides up, topped with yogurt and nuts. Drizzle with additional honey if desired.

MINCEMEAT STUFFED APPLES (JAMIE OLIVER)

Steps:

• preheat oven to 190 or gas mark 5, tip mincemeat into bowl add big pinch of the cinnamon, lemon zest, walnuts and port mix well.
• core apples with corer and stuff the hollow holes wirh the mincemeat mix.
• beat the egg and milk together. Lay pastry on a floured surface and roll out to thickness of 50p about 3 mm? (half thickness of pound coin) im rubbish with these kind of measurements.
• cut into eight even sized squares and lightly brush each with egg and millk wash. scatter half of demmerara sugar evenly across squares and then dust with a couple of pinches of cinnamon.
• place apple in centre of square of patry and bring pastry up around the apple pressing together so the apple is encased - do this with rest of apples.
• hold the apples with the pastry sealed on the top of the apple, facing upwards else your apple will slide off.
• transfer apples to baking tray lined with greaseproof, patry seal DOWN on the greasproof brush each with a little more egg and milk wash and scatter over last of sugar and remaining cinnamon.
• bake in hot oven fo about 40 mins , the patry should be golden and crispyand apples cooked through servce with the jersey cream, leftovers can be eaten cold the next day. sounds goody yum tums.

WALNUT BAKED APPLES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 2 quart casserole dish, or coat with non-stick cooking spray.
• Place apples in a large bowl. In a small bowl, mix together sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Stir spice mixture into apples until evenly distributed. Fold in raisins and walnuts. Spoon into prepared dish. Pour milk evenly over apple mixture.
• Bake in preheated oven for 45 to 60 minutes, or until soft and bubbly. Allow to cool slightly before serving.