Alsatian cuisine, Baked apples, Alsace

Apple baked with whipped cream and spiced peanuts

Ingredients

Servings 6
  • 7 Granny Smith apples
  • 6 art. l. butter
  • 50 g dark brown sugar
  • 50 g dried cranberries
  • 3 art. l. oat flakes "Hercules" (requiring cooking)
  • 1 tsp finely grated orange zest
  • a pinch of salt
  • 6 tbsp liquid honey
  • juice of one orange (about 100 ml)
  • 400 ml cream with a fat content of at least 30%
  • 2 tbsp. l. powdered sugar

Cooking

Step 1

Preheat oven to 180°C. Scatter the nuts in a baking dish and place in the oven for 7-10 minutes until the nuts begin to change color. Remove from oven, cool.

Step 2

Combine protein and spices in a bowl, add nuts and mix well. Return to the baking sheet and place in the oven for 5 minutes. Cool completely, transfer to a jar with a tight-fitting lid. Peanuts keep up to 2 weeks.

Step 3

Preheat oven to 180°C.

Step 4

Peel one apple, cut into cubes with a side of 5-7 mm. Mix in a bowl 5 tbsp. l. butter, sugar, cranberries, oatmeal, orange zest, salt and chopped apples.

Step 5

Cut off the bottom of the remaining 6 apples (to give them stability). Cut off the "lid" 1 cm high, set aside. Peel the apples and use a teaspoon or scooping spoon to cut out the core and some of the flesh to form a large cavity.

Step 6

Melt the remaining butter in a frying pan that can be put in the oven. Place the apples cut side down and roast for 3 minutes until the cut is golden brown. Turn the apples over, reduce the heat to low. Fill the apples with the filling, perhaps with a slide. Place a lid on top.

Step 7

Pour orange juice into the pan, add honey and put the pan in the oven. Bake for 35-40 minutes, brushing with syrup from the bottom of the pan every 10 minutes. Cool to room temperature.

Step 8

Whip cream with powdered sugar. Put on apples, sprinkle with spicy peanuts.

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