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Recipe Cooked apples and apple broth – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

4 apples
sugar
star anise
cinnamon stick
cloves
lemon

Duration: 1 h 30 min

Level: Easy

Doses: 4-6 people

FOR THE APPLE STOCK
Peel apples and core them. Collect the cores and peels in a saucepan with 1/2 liter of water, 1 tablespoon of sugar and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice.
You do boil gently for 20 minutes, turn off and filter. Reduce the apple broth by at least half and let it cool.

FOR BAKED APPLES
Cut the apples cleaned into quarters and arrange them in a pan large enough to contain them without overlapping. Add 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, 2 anise stars, 4 cloves, a piece of cinnamon stick and 4 tablespoons of water. Cover with a lid and cook for 8-10 minutes, turning them halfway through cooking.
Serve them with the broth.

The sugar-free apple pie – Italian Cuisine

The secret? Simple: prepare it without sugar. Not without taste, though: only without sugar! A perfect recipe to eat lightly apple pie … light

The worry of accumulating pounds is the worry that always assails us when we are in front of a dessert. For this we offer you a recipe that will save yours craving for sweet and the need for do not get fat. How, you ask? Simply by preparing one sugar-free apple pie, perfect for the desire for sweetness (omnipresent) and to make peace with feelings of guilt.

How to replace sugar in a dessert

There are many ways to sweeten a cake without resorting to sugar: among the most used products there is the honey, which has different aromas depending on the origin of the essences used by the bees to produce it. For 100 g of sugar, consider 80 g of honey. Another substitute is the malt, which is made from the fermentation of cereals and is perfect for leavened cakes or creams. For 100 g of sugar, use 130 g of malt. Another option is the molasses, made from beetroot or cane sugar. You can use it for prepare biscuits or bread, 80 g instead of 100 of sugar. The rice syrup, which is obtained from the rice itself, can replace sugar in doses of 130 per 100 g. Also it apple or grape syrup it can be used instead of sugar, taking into account that it is sweeter: in this case, use 70 g of syrup for 100 g of sugar.

Apple pulp, perfect not only for this cake

Another option to do without sugar is to reduce the apple pulp in a puree, that you will mix together with the other ingredients to sweeten your dessert. This way you will only have natural fruit sugars which will make yours delicately sweetened Apple pie. As a quantity, calculate the puree resulting from two large apples for 250-300 g of flour. And if you want to enhance the sweetness even more, you can add sultana raisins soaked in the dough.

The recipe for sugar-free apple pie

Ingredients

300 g flour, 175 g butter, 1 egg, 1/2 sachet of baking powder, grated rind of one lemon, 4 large apples, 100 g chopped hazelnuts.

Method

First, prepare the apple puree. Peel two of them, detorsolatele and cut them into pieces. Put them in a pan and cook them with a drop of water until they fall apart completely. Pass them to the mixer and then set aside 200 g. Melt the butter in a bain-marie and then add it to a bowl with the apple puree, lemon zest, egg and mix well. Add the sifted flour with the baking powder, 50 g of chopped hazelnuts and continue to mix. Grease a 24 cm diameter springform pan, flour it and pour the mixture into it. Peel the remaining apples, cut them into thin slices that you will arrange on the surface of the cake. Finish with the remaining chopped hazelnuts and bake at 180 ° in a static oven for 45 minutes.

In the tutorial some more tips!

Text by Cristina Gambarini

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Autumn dessert: apple clafoutis – Italian Cuisine

A little pudding, a little fruit flan, the clafoutis is the dessert with a guaranteed result. And it's so quick and easy that you can even prepare it at the last minute

The clafoutis it's a French egg and fruit dessert that looks like a pudding, but it's not.
It should be served warm and is a real treat for the palate on autumn evenings.
Preparing it is very simple and you can use it the fruit of your choice, as long as it is in season.
During this time we suggest you try it with apples and raisins, scented with cinnamon.

The apple clafoutis recipe

Here's how to prepare this dessert.

Ingredients

450 g of golden apples
100 g of sugar
50 g of flour 00
250 ml of whole milk
80 g of raisins
2 eggs
10 g of butter
cinnamon

Method

First, let the raisins soften in water at room temperature and brown the apples in a pan with the knob of butter and a tablespoon of cinnamon. They simply have to caramelize a little, but always maintaining the consistency.

Separately, beat the eggs with the sugar and then add the milk and sifted flour.
Simply use a hand whisk.
You can flavor with grated lemon zest or vanilla extract.
Once the mixture is ready, grease a 24 cm diameter baking dish and pour the apples inside first, distributing them well, then the mixture with the eggs and finally the well-squeezed raisins.
Bake in a preheated static oven at 180 ° for about 35-40 minutes and serve the warm clafoutis with a scoop of ice cream or a sprig of semi-whipped cream.

Clafoutis in a pan

There is a faster version of this recipe which includes the cooking in a pan.
In practice it is one Fried eggs with apples, but the addition of flour makes the result slightly drier and more compact.
Just proceed as in the previous recipe and then mix the egg mixture with the apples and raisins and cook everything in a lightly buttered non-stick pan.
Maintain medium-low heat and proceed as for a classic omelette.
After about 5 minutes of cooking the base, help yourself with a plate or a lid e overturned the clafoutis to cook the other side.

Autumn alternatives

You can also prepare a delicious autumn clafoutis with other varieties of apple, such as rennet which goes great in desserts, or pears. Also great with grapes, as long as you find it in season and with persimmon in the persimmon apple vanilla version.
And you can also think of one salty version, maybe with pumpkin and zola!

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