Baked apples in the oven are a healthy alternative to sweets, especially for those on a diet. By adding a few nuts, dried fruits, or honey, you can prepare a delicious dessert at home.
Calorie content
The calorie content of baked fruits in the oven depends on what additional ingredients were used for cooking.
| Dish | Calories per 100 g |
|---|---|
| Classic baked apples | 44 |
| With sugar | 86 |
| With honey | 67 |
| With dried fruit | 103 |
| With nuts | 72 |
| With dried fruits and nuts (sweetener - sugar) | 141 |
| With dried fruits and nuts (sweetener - honey) | 115 |
Instead of sugar and honey, you can use Stevia extract. Then the dessert will turn out dietary.
Which apples are best baked
Varieties with “friable” pulp are suitable for baking in the oven. The best are:
- Antonovka.
- Rennet.
- Golden
- Saffron.
- Mac.
- Grant.
- Semerenko.
All sorts of sweet and sour green apples are also suitable. Red and yellow varieties are not suitable.
The classic recipe for apples without filling
To prepare a classic recipe in the oven, you need several ingredients. It is prepared quickly and easily.
- an Apple 4 PC
- cinnamon 1 tsp
- Wash fruits. You can bake whole or slices.
- Preheat the oven to 180. Put the fruits in a mold and send for 15 minutes.
- Pour out and sprinkle with cinnamon. Put back for 2-3 minutes.
Whole apples with sugar
Apples with sugar are more high-calorie, but if you replace sugar with honey, you can cook a diet treat.
- Green apples.
- Sugar to taste.
- Cinnamon.
- Ground nuts.
- Wash the fruits and core.
- Mix sugar with cinnamon and ground nuts.
- Put the fruits in a baking dish and put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 10 minutes.
- Remove, sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and nuts. Put back for another 7 minutes.
How to bake apples for a nursing mother
Baked apples are very beneficial for women during lactation. But you can not use red varieties, since they relate to allergens. But green and yellow are quite suitable for cooking.
Also, do not use honey, nuts and dried fruits. During pregnancy, such products are prohibited. The best option is baked fruits with a small addition of sugar, but it is advisable to do without it.
What are baked apples good for?
The main advantage is low calorie content. Fruits in this form are better absorbed by the body. However, the content of vitamins in them is less than in fresh ones.
Benefits for the body:
- High potassium content, which has beneficial effects on heart function.
- Maintaining an acid-base environment.
- Magnesium and sodium stabilize blood pressure.
- Decreased acidity in the stomach.
- The combination of apples and nuts strengthens teeth and bones.
- The pulp of baked apples in the oven helps with coughing.
- Help with sleep disorders and heart failure.
- They remove heavy metals from the body.
- Normalize cholesterol.
This dish is useful for people suffering from gastritis with high acidity. Malic and tartaric acid contribute to the absorption of food in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
Who can and who cannot eat them
Despite all the benefits, oven-baked fruits are contraindicated for some people.First of all, these are people who are allergic to apples. It is not recommended to use the dish for those who suffer from flatulence and peptic ulcer.
A negative effect on the body may not be associated with the fruits themselves, but with the wax used to process the peel, so it is recommended to wash them thoroughly in hot water before use.
Useful Tips
To make apples even tastier, there are some cooking tips.
- Fruits are better to buy locally made, rather than imported.
- A special taste and aroma can be given by adding vanilla sugar or vanilla essence.
- Apples go well with low-fat sour cream, cottage cheese, citrus fruits, and dark chocolate.
- An important point is the temperature in the oven. If the temperature is too high, the peel will start to burn, and the flesh will remain moist. The optimum temperature is 180-200 degrees.
- So that the fruits are evenly baked in the oven, you can put a container of water.
- You can bake in the microwave.
- During baking, fruits acquire an ugly hue. To avoid this you need to sprinkle with lemon juice.
- You can check the degree of readiness with a wooden stick or toothpick. The pulp is pierced with a stick and, if the stick easily passes through the peel, the dessert is ready.
- Baked pulp is used as baby food.
Spices give the delicacy an unusual taste and aroma. The main thing is not to limit imagination.
In the oven, baked apples can be eaten by almost everyone. It does not take much time to cook. You can bake with dried apricots, raisins, citrus fruits, nuts and any other ingredients. The pulp of apples contains a large amount of vitamins and minerals necessary for the human body.
