If you think that only meat and fish are cooked in batter, then you are deeply mistaken. The batter is universal, and the filling can be absolutely any, at your discretion. An interesting idea for the original dessert will be apples in batter: fragrant, tasty, tender with a crispy juicy center.
Apples in batter - general cooking principles
Apples in batter - a delicious, simple and quick to cook delicacy. This dessert will be a great alternative to fruit pancakes, pies, donuts. Especially it will be pleasant to those who do not particularly like to mess with the dough, but they are not averse to feasting on not just delicious, but healthy pastries.
But in order for apples in batter to work out well, it’s important to observe some tricks in their preparation:
• Choose non-sour apple varieties. Fruits must be strong and juicy.
• It’s also important to be responsible for cooking batter. Regardless of which main ingredient will be included in the test: kefir, sour cream, milk, mineral water, beer, batter should be uniform, viscous, viscous.
• Checking the consistency of the batter is simple: dip a spoon in the dough and, if you pull it out, you don’t see the gap, the batter will evenly cover the surface of the spoon, which means it’s correct.
• Be sure to ensure that the butter on which the apples are fried in batter is sufficiently well heated. The dough should immediately seize and crust.
• To make the batter airy and lush, it is better to whisk the proteins separately from the rest of the ingredients, and only at the very end of the batter to add them to the dough.
• Batter is prepared from products of the same temperature, mainly from cold ingredients.
The principle of cooking goodies is simple. Prepare apples: peeled, cut into the desired shape. Separately prepare batter. Slices of apples are dipped in the dough, after which they are fried in very hot oil on both sides.
Serve dessert in a cooled form, sprinkled with powdered sugar, cinnamon and any other powders.
1. Apples in batter: kefir recipe
Ingredients:
• two large apples;
• egg;
• 3 tbsp. l granulated sugar;
• 2 tbsp. l kefir;
• 1 tbsp. l flour;
• vegetable oil;
• powdered sugar.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse and peel the apples thoroughly.
2. Cut the fruit into rings approximately 5-7 mm thick.
3. Carefully cut the seed core.
4. In a small bowl, crush the eggs with sugar.
5. Pour kefir into the egg mass, mix.
6. Pour flour, stir so that the dough turns out homogeneous, without lumps.
7. Pour vegetable oil into a preheated pan, warm.
8. Dip each apple ring in batter, put in a frying pan in hot oil.
9. Fry the apples in batter on both sides to a golden blush.
10. Before serving, sprinkle the dessert with icing sugar.
2. Apples in batter: a recipe for milk
Ingredients:
• one sweet big apple;
• 3 tbsp. l flour;
• 50 ml of milk;
• egg;
• 2-3 tbsp. l Sahara;
• frying oil;
• two pinches of cinnamon.
Cooking method:
1. In a dry, deep bowl, mix the egg with sugar and cinnamon.
2. Pour in warm milk, add flour, whisk the soft batter soft in texture.
3. Rinse and peeled apple cut into rings or half rings.
4. Dip each ring into the batter, put on the oil warmed up in the pan.
5. Fry apples in batter over medium heat for 2-3 minutes on one side, then turn over and fry the same amount on the other.
6. Transfer to a paper towel.
7. As soon as excess oil drains, transfer to a plate.
8. If you want, you can decorate apples in batter with powdered sugar, grated chocolate.
3. Apples in batter with honey and cinnamon: recipe for sour cream
Ingredients:
• five medium-sized apples;
• 3-5 tbsp. l sugar (depending on the sweetness of apples);
• 2 yolks;
• 6 tbsp. l flour;
• 4 tbsp. l sour cream;
• 6 tbsp. l milk;
• 2 tbsp. l honey;
• cinnamon;
• butter.
Cooking method:
1. Mix the yolks with sour cream and milk.
2. Pour granulated sugar, whisk.
3. Add liquid honey and cinnamon to taste, flour, whisk again.
4. Adjust the consistency of the batter by adding flour or milk. The mass should be not too liquid, but not thick, viscous.
5. Peel the apples, cut into large, not thick slices.
6. Fry the apples on both sides until a light golden blush.
7. Serve cold.
4. Apples in batter with chocolate coating: recipe for beer
Ingredients:
• three apples;
• 150 ml of beer;
• 100 grams of flour;
• egg;
• 3 tbsp. l powdered sugar;
• a pinch of salt;
• chocolate glaze.
Cooking method:
1. Sift flour into a bowl of suitable size, add egg yolk, pour beer. Mix well.
2. Pour a pinch of salt into the egg white, whisk until foam.
3. Mix the yolk mixture with the protein mass.
4. Wash the apples, dry. After removing the core, cut the fruit into rings.
5. Thoroughly dip the apples in the prepared batter.
6. Gently lay the fruit in a pan-heated butter, fry on both sides until golden.
7. Put the finished apples on a paper towel to remove excess oil, then transfer to a serving plate.
8. Pour the dessert with chocolate icing.
5. Caramelized apples in custard
Ingredients:
• large sweet apple;
• 160 grams of sugar;
• 80 ml of water;
• 20 grams of butter;
• 40 grams of flour;
• egg;
• a teaspoon of sesame seeds;
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
1. Pour in a small saucepan of water, put the butter. Bring the mass to a boil.
2. Remove the pan from the stove, add the flour in small portions into the hot creamy mixture, stirring continuously so that no lumps form.
3. Remove the resulting custard dough to cool to room temperature.
4. Add the egg, mix thoroughly.
5. Peel the apple and cut into cubes about 1-1.5 cm.
6. Put the slices in a pan with custard dough, mix.
7. A tablespoon scoop the apple mass with batter, spread it on an oiled baking sheet.
8. Cook the apples in custard batter at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
9. Remove the pan, let the apples in the batter cool completely.
10. While the fruit is frozen, pour vegetable oil into the stewpan, pour sugar, mix.
11. Boil the sugar until dark golden.
12. Add sesame to the syrup, mix, remove from heat.
13. Pour ice water into a large bowl.
14. Transfer a few pieces of the cooled apples in a batter to the finished hot caramel, mix.
15. Carefully remove the slotted spoon and immediately immerse in ice water, then transfer to a plate covered with a paper towel.
16. With the rest of the apple slices, follow the same procedure.
17. Serve a fragrant dessert, sprinkled with powdered sugar or just like that.
6. "Drunk apples" in batter
Ingredients:
• four apples;
• 3 tbsp. l cognac;
• 3 tbsp. l Sahara;
• 200 grams of ghee;
• icing sugar, cinnamon;
• half a glass of flour;
• a couple of spoons of olive oil;
• 100 ml of beer;
• 100 ml of water;
• two egg whites.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse and peeled apples and seeds cut into circles.
2. Mix cognac with sugar in a bowl, pour apple rings with this mixture for 20 minutes.
3. While the apples "get drunk", prepare a batter: mix water with beer and olive oil, add two whipped protein and sifted flour into the mixture.
4. Carefully mix batter or whisk in a blender.
5. Dip the apple circles in the batter, fry until deep golden in deep fat.
6. When serving apples on the table, do not forget to sprinkle them with powdered sugar and cinnamon.
7. Apples in a magnificent batter with lemon zest
Ingredients:
• two apples;
• two eggs;
• 6 tbsp. l flour;
• half a teaspoon of baking powder;
• 100 ml of milk;
• a teaspoon of grated lemon peel;
• two pinches of vanilla sugar;
• 150 grams of granulated sugar.
Cooking method:
1. Beat eggs with sugar and a zest mixer. You can experiment and use orange or grapefruit instead of lemon peel, and it is also acceptable to put a citrus mix in the dough.
2. Pour in the milk, mix.
3. Add flour, vanilla sugar and baking powder, whisk. The batter should get thinner than the pancakes.
4. Thoroughly washed and peeled apples cut into small slices.
5. Dip each slice in batter, fry in hot oil for 3 minutes on each side.
Apples in batter - tricks and tips
• If you want the dough to be soft, cover the pan with a lid and crunchy - accordingly, fry without a lid.
• Do not put apples in batter in a pan close to each other so that they do not stick together. This can worsen the appearance of the dessert, and the oil temperature due to the large number of apples can drop sharply and the batter will remain unbaked.
• Apples must be sliced just before cooking the treats, otherwise the fruit will darken.
• To make apples especially tasty, after frying them must be laid out on a paper towel to get rid of excess oil.
• The dish, of course, although flour, but has a small calorie content, so even those who lose weight can afford a few apples in batter for breakfast, without fear for the consequences. To make the delicacy easier will help using only proteins and not roasting, but baking in the oven.
• An interesting combination of apples in batter with honey mixed with powdered sugar cinnamon, liquid chocolate, boiled sugar syrup.
• For all the above recipes, you can cook not only apples in batter, but also pears, bananas, peaches and other fruits.
