Baked apples
Serves 4
Ingredients:
4 medium cooking apples
1 dsp raisins
2 tsps Amaretto liqueur
110 g (4 oz) marzipan
1 dsp chopped almonds
Pinch cinnamon
Method:
1. Wash and core the apples. Soak the raisins in
the Amaretto liqueur.
2. Combine the marzipan, almonds and
cinnamon together with the soaked raisins.
Fill the cored apples with the mixture. Do
not be tempted to over-fill the apples. Score
around the middle of each apple.
3. Place in a solid container. Steam at 100°C
for 8–12 minutes
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Tip
Apples are Europe's most popular
fruit, and rank 3rd in the popularity
charts worldwide – after citrus fruit
and bananas. Apples are low in
calories with only 50 kcal per 100 g,
and contain plenty of fibre, pectin
and vitamin C. “An apple a day keeps
the doctor away!”
