An apple a day, the doctor stays away from me", an old English proverb that is still used as a guideline for healthy living. After allApples are rich in sugars, organic acids, fiber, vitamins, minerals, polyphenols and flavonoids, and are known by scientists as "all-round healthy fruits". But many people seem to automatically block apples and fruits in winter, because they are so cold to eat!So how to eat this health fruit in winter to give full play to the effect?
In fact, the most convenient way to eat is to bake apples, because apples contain a lot of apple pectin, so if you bake apples (heat for 5 minutes), the molecular weight of pectin will be reduced, and the activity will be 9 times higher than that of raw apples. And the baked apples are soft and hot, and the taste will be much better than when eaten raw. If you have a microwave oven at home, wash the apples, cut them into four petals, and put them in the microwave for five minutes. If you have an oven, you can also remove the apple seeds and throw them in and bake them for 20-30 minutes, isn't it convenient?
The second is boiled apples, you can boil it with hawthorn, red dates, lemons, wolfberries, etc., which have a good moisturizing effect. Or it is good to stew it with white fungus and lean pork. Especially cook it with lean pork and drink it in soupIt can not only eliminate the unique peculiar smell of pork and increase the fragrance, but also because apples are rich in malic acid, dietary fiber, pectin, etc., we can avoid absorbing too much cholesterol when eating with meat.
In addition, there are more ways to cook apples in winter, such as making them in our breakfast cakes, or cooking porridge with oats, rolling a roll and baking it to make a high-value apple roll, and patiently waiting for a few months to drink our own brewed apple cider vinegar, which will be very helpful for us to absorb the nutrients of apples and maintain our figure. So let's share a few apples cooked to help us consume apples at home this winter.
1. Apple lean broth
Serving size: 1 pot
Duration: 1 hour
Ingredients: 300 grams of lean meat, 1 apple, 6 red dates, 1 white fungus, half a carrot, 1-2 slices of ginger, 6 bowls of water
Let's start doing it. 1. Wash and soak the white fungus softly. Cut the lean meat into small pieces, cored and diced the apples, and cut the carrots into cubes. Apples and carrots don't need to be peeled, and the stew with skin is very nutritious. 2. Put the carrots, lean meat, and ginger slices into the pot and stir-fry them slightly, and then add the red dates and diced apples after the meat has changed some color.
3. Pour in 6 bowls of water, then add the shredded white fungus and start simmering, it will take about an hour. 4. This is the appearance of stew, the soup is fruity and sweet, and the salt or something can be added by yourself.
Auntie crushed thoughts: It is best not to use the yellowed part of the root of the white fungus, so as not to affect the taste. Lean meat is recommended to use the tip of the back buttocks, and children can also use some pork belly if they eat.
2. Apple oatmeal porridge
Serving size: 1 small pot
Time: 10 minutes
Ingredients: 40 grams of instant oatmeal, three bowls of water, one apple, 6-7 red dates.
Let's start doing it. 1. Prepare all the ingredients, peel the apples and cut them into pieces, and remove the core of the dates. 2. After boiling water in a pot, pour in oatmeal and water, mix the red dates, and start boiling.
3. Cook until the oats become a little sticky, then add the apple pieces and continue to cook. 4. Keep stirring until the apples are soft and the oatmeal porridge is thicker, then turn off the heat.
Auntie crushed thoughts: If you have millet at home, you can also cook it together. However, the millet boils for a little longer, so you need to put the millet and cook it for five or six minutes before putting the oatmeal.
3. Coarse grain apple pancake rolls
Time: about two
Time: 25 minutes
Ingredients: 1 apple, 40 grams of low-gluten flour, 30 grams of brown whole wheat flour (can be replaced by whole wheat flour), 110 grams of milk, 1 egg (about 55 grams with skin), 20 grams + 10 grams of sugar, a teaspoon of black sesame seeds, 20 grams of butter.
Let's start doing it. 1. Beat the eggs into a bowl, pour in 20 grams of sugar, stir well, then pour in the milk and continue to mix well. 2. After that, sieve in the mixture of low-gluten flour and brown whole wheat flour, add black sesame seeds, and continue to mix well with egg whip. The batter should be lifted and dripping quickly in a straight line, if it is too thick, the cake will be thicker and hard after cooling.
3. Process the apples again, peel and core and cut into cubes, the smaller the better. 4. Put the butter in a pot and heat it over low heat to melt into a liquid state, then pour in 10 grams of sugar and mix slightly. Put the diced apples in and stir-fry, and the juice will gradually come out as the heat progresses, and the color of the diced apples will deepen slightly. Simmer until the juice is almost dry and the diced apples are soft.
5. Brush a thin layer of oil in the pan where the pancakes are prepared, and then evenly spread about half of the diced apples. 6. Take a large spoonful of the finished pancake liquid and slowly pour it into the pot, and then use the spoon to help the batter evenly wrap the diced apples and spread them into a circle. After heating for a while, you will see that the bottom of the pancake is already solidified.
7. Turn the pancake over and continue to cook the other side, and when both sides are cooked, you can remove the pancake from the pan. 8. Wear gloves or wait until it is not so hot, roll up the pancakes, and fix them for another ten minutes before cutting them and eating. It is also possible without rolling, and it is also convenient to eat it by cutting it into pieces.
Auntie crushed thoughts: The diced apples need to be boiled until soft before being added, otherwise the cake will be broken. The same goes for dicing, try to cut it smaller, if it's too big, the pie will not be so smooth. Fried apples can be replaced with corn oil if there is no butter, but it lacks a milky flavor.
4. Apple oatmeal muffins
Servings: About 12 pcs
Time: 30 minutes
Ingredients: 135 grams of apples, 200 grams of instant oatmeal, 400 grams of soy milk, 30 grams of sugar, 5 grams of baking powder.
Let's start doing it. 1. Peel and cut the apples into pieces, and put them in the wall breaker together with soy milk and oatmeal. 2. Then whip well into a delicate oatmeal apple paste.
3. After that, add baking powder and sugar, and mix well. 4. After the pan is heated over medium-low heat, scoop a spoonful of batter into the pot and try to arrange it into a circle.
5. Wait until there are a lot of bubbles on the surface, you can turn it over, and continue to heat the other side for a while until it is fully cooked. 6. After the finished muffins are cooled, they can be eaten with honey or jam.
Auntie crushed thoughts: This useless flour is all oatmeal, so it is softer and more glutinous than other muffins. Cook for about 2-3 minutes on both sides.
5. Apple rose rolls
Servings: 6 pcs
Duration: 1 hour
Crust ingredients: 80 grams of low-gluten flour, 22 grams of butter, 32 grams of apple syrup.
Apple filling: 1 apple, 40 grams of caster sugar, 40 grams of honey, 500 grams of water
Let's start doing it. 1. The thickness of the thin slices of apples should be consistent, about 2cm. 2. Then mix 40 grams of caster sugar, 40 grams of honey and 500 grams of water into the milk pot and boil until boiling. After that, pour in the apple slices and cook until soft, about two minutes. Remove the apple slices and drain. Sweet, syrup, and water are cooled and set aside.
3. Now let's start making the crust. Cut the butter into small pieces and soften it and mix it with the low-gluten flour. After kneading and blending, the low-gluten flour turns into a coarse corn flour state. 4. Then add the apple syrup just now, I added about 38-40 grams. Roll the flour into a dough and set aside to relax for 15 minutes.
5. After that, sprinkle some powder on the board to prevent sticking, and roll out the dough sheet into a rectangular sheet about 30cm long, the thinner the thickness, the better. 6. Then use that sharp utility knife and cut it into pieces about 15cm, 30cm long strip.
7. Take a noodle and stack the drained apple slices on top of the noodles one by one. This is what it looks like after stacking, about 7-8 pieces each. 8. Then roll it up from left to right.
9. This is what it looks like after rolling. 10. Then put it in the cupcake mold, and then arrange the petals of the apple to make that blooming effect.
11. Roll all 6 apple rolls and put them in the cake mold. 12. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, then put it on the middle layer and bake it for 30 minutes. In the remainder.
At 8 or 9 minutes, take out the apple rolls, brush them with a little honey, and then put them back in the oven to bake until the end is over.
Auntie crushed thoughts: Apple slices should be boiled in sugar water to become soft before they can be rolled, and you can also remove the raw taste of apples. Although this is simple, it does test patience and knife skills when slicing. It is placed in a paper cup to hold it in place, and if you bake the apple roll directly on a baking sheet, it will easily fall apart. Finally, bake until the apples are somewhat dry and golden brown around the edges.
6. Homemade apple cider vinegar
Serving size: 1 can
Time: more than 3 months
Ingredients: 400 grams of apples, 650 grams of white rice vinegar, 60 grams of rock sugar
Let's start doing it. 1. Cut the apples and remove the cores, then cut them into not too thick slices. 2. In the sterilized sealed jar, put in a layer of apple slices first, then a layer of rock sugar, and so on, until all the apple slices and rock sugar are placed.
3. Finally, stick to the edge of the jar, slowly pour the white vinegar into the jar, almost nine points full. Here you must soak all the apple slices in vinegar, and there should be no exposed ones. 4. After pouring, seal the jar and put it in a cool place or refrigerator, soak it for more than 3 months, and within 6 months, it is ready. To make apple cider vinegar, you need to take out the apple slices to filter out impurities, and then seal and refrigerate them. Usually, you can pour out a little apple cider vinegar, mix it with an appropriate amount of purified water or honey water, mix it well, and drink it. It can also be used in salads and salads, and the taste is very fresh.
Auntie Crushed Thoughts: The amount of apple and vinegar can be adjusted on a 1:1 basis. If you want to have a fruity flavor, add more apples, and vice versa, add more vinegar. Rock sugar can also be replaced with ** sugar, so that the vinegar color is more golden. For apple vinegar, it is best to choose white vinegar that is transparent and has no other additives in the composition as much as possible. After pouring in the vinegar, it is necessary to see that the apple slices are soaked in vinegar before sending it to be sealed, so that the apple slices will be fermented and soaked thoroughly, so as to avoid the deterioration of the apple slices exposed to the outside. The soaking time is recommended to be within 3-6 months, and if the time is too short, it will not be enough to soak.