Baked Apples With Cranberries, Raisins, And Apricots Recipe - Cooking Index
Baked Apples With Cranberries, Raisins, And Apricots Recipe - Cooking Index
Lauren writes: "When it comes to making dinner, my husband, Stuart, and I have the perfect system. He's in charge of our backyard garden, and I'm in charge of cooking with what he harvests — things like basil, onions, lemons, and even apples. It's our favorite way to create a meal together."
Type: Fruit| 4 | Golden Delicious apples (large) | |
| 1/2 cup | 80g / 2.8oz | Golden raisins |
| 1/2 cup | 46g / 1.6oz | Dried cranberries |
| 1/3 cup | 53g / 1.9oz | Golden brown sugar - (packed) |
| 1/4 cup | 36g / 1.3oz | Chopped dried apricots |
| 3/4 teaspoon | 3.8ml | Ground allspice - divided |
| 1/4 cup | 49g / 1.7oz | Unsalted butter - (1/2 stick) - melted |
| 2 cups | 474ml | Sparkling apple-cranberry juice |
| 1/4 cup | 23g / 0.8oz | Frozen concentrated cranberry |
| Juice cocktail - thawed |
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Remove stems from apples. Using melon baller, scoop out core of each apple, making 1-inch-wide hollow center but leaving bottom of apple intact. Make 1/8-inch-deep cut in skin around center of each apple. Arrange apples, hollowed-side up, in 8- by 8- by 2-inch glass baking dish.
Mix raisins, cranberries, sugar, apricots, and 1/2 teaspoon allspice in small bowl. Pack fruit mixture into hollows of apples. Sprinkle any remaining fruit mixture around apples in dish. Drizzle butter into filling and around apples in dish.
Pour sparkling juice and cranberry concentrate into dish. Sprinkle remaining 1/4 teaspoon allspice into dish. Bake apples uncovered until tender, occasionally basting with cranberry juice mixture, about 1 hour 10 minutes.
Transfer apples to 4 bowls. Pour juices from dish into medium saucepan and boil until thick enough to coat spoon, about 4 minutes. Spoon sauce over apples.
Source:
"Bon Appetit, December 2004"
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