Our favourite recipes featuring apples
When it comes to versatile fruit, apples rank pretty high. We enjoy them as apple juice or apple cider, baked in apple pie, apple crisp, in breads and muffins or used as a garnish in pork dishes.
Whether you fancy an apple-based soup, apple in a salad or as part of a tasty apple crumble, fall is the perfect time to make the most of this sweet tree fruit. We have 20 favourite apple recipes to easily help you get through a bushel (or two).
Favourite apple recipes: main dishes
1. Healthy Birchermüesli
Birchermüesli and its many derivatives are regular breakfast and dessert features at most Swiss tables and around the world. You can use all types of apples or a combination of apples and pears; seasonal berries also make a wonderful addition.
2. Beet and Apple Salad
A tart-and-sweet beet and apple salad pairs nicely with a wonderful cheese and onion sandwich for a full, balanced meal.
3. Gaspé Oyster and Apple Soup
Serve this rich soup in small cups so you don't spoil your appetite for the other splendid dishes that follow in the La belle cuisine menu.
4. Autumn Apple and Blue Cheese Salad
Use an Italian mix of frisée, curly endive, escarole, raddichio and/or Romaine lettuces for this seasonal salad. Walnut oil lends a hearty nuttiness to the dressing.
Whether you fancy an apple-based soup, apple in a salad or as part of a tasty apple crumble, fall is the perfect time to make the most of this sweet tree fruit. We have 20 favourite apple recipes to easily help you get through a bushel (or two).
Favourite apple recipes: main dishes
1. Healthy Birchermüesli
Birchermüesli and its many derivatives are regular breakfast and dessert features at most Swiss tables and around the world. You can use all types of apples or a combination of apples and pears; seasonal berries also make a wonderful addition.
2. Beet and Apple Salad
A tart-and-sweet beet and apple salad pairs nicely with a wonderful cheese and onion sandwich for a full, balanced meal.
3. Gaspé Oyster and Apple Soup
Serve this rich soup in small cups so you don't spoil your appetite for the other splendid dishes that follow in the La belle cuisine menu.
4. Autumn Apple and Blue Cheese Salad
Use an Italian mix of frisée, curly endive, escarole, raddichio and/or Romaine lettuces for this seasonal salad. Walnut oil lends a hearty nuttiness to the dressing.
5. Sauerkraut-Stuffed Pork Chops with Fried Apples
Hearty and warming, this dish has an attractive, colourful appearance and a sophisticated yet down-home taste.
6. Apple and Jerusalem Artichoke Soup
The fall crop of Jerusalem artichokes (sunchokes) -- the tubers of a native sunflower-like flower -- is starting to come in. The flavour and tartness of fresh apples cuts through the richness of the almost unctuous roots.
Favourite apple recipes: desserts
7. Apple and Pear Granola Crisp
Oats, nuts, apples and pears make a very healthy combination, especially when sweetening is kept to a minimum.
8. Savoury Apple and Onion Pie
This pie is inspired by Swiss and German traditions. If you wish, top with about 3/4 cup/175 mL grated old Gouda, Gruyère or Cheddar cheese before baking.
9. Apple Pie with Currants and Almonds
This version of apple pie is perfect after an apple-picking excursion. If you like sweet pie, add up to 1/4 cup/60 mL more granulated sugar to the filling.
10. Only-Apples Flan with Crème Anglaise
This cunning apple dessert truly highlights the natural appeal of apples and has all the appeal of a cake but far fewer carbohydrates. Crème anglaise is a classic custard-style sauce that goes with almost any dessert.
11. Green Tomato and Apple Hand Pies
Green tomatoes pair surprisingly well with apples. If apples are tart, add a little more sugar to the filling.
12. Apple Rum Raisin Pie in Phyllo
Use packaged frozen phyllo to form the light, flaky crust in this dessert.
13. Apple Spelt Cake
This Austrian homestyle cake is a wonderfully simple and fairly low-calorie apple dessert. Spelt is an ancient nutty-flavoured low-gluten wheat variety that grows in Alpine regions, so it is popular in breads and baking in Switzerland, Austria and northern Italy. Buy it at bulk or health food stores. If your apples are sweet, reduce the sugar in the apple layer.
14. Apple Pie with Chocolate Hazelnut Crisp
With its unusual crisp topping of hazelnuts and chocolate, no one will call this "plain apple pie."
Favourite apple recipes: snacks
15. Apple-Cheese Muffins
The winning flavours of apples and cheese and a not-too sweet batter make this muffin a good choice for breakfast, a snack or even dessert.
16. Warm Spiced Apple Cider
This warming drink is great to serve when you return home from a walk or to take along in a Thermos.
17. Curried Oven-Dried Apple Slices
Beat cravings for salty snacks with these flavourful chips.
18. Caramel-Apple Beignets
These swoon-inducing beignets (French-style doughnuts), with their fantastically rich dough and enticingly flavourful filling, will make your kitchen more popular than Tim Hortons.
19. Apple Nut Melba Toasts
Apple Nut Bread makes fabulous melba toasts that will keep for weeks while retaining a real apple-and-nut flavour, so it's a great way to preserve any leftover bread, but you might even bake the loaf just for the toasts. They are wonderful with cheese or pâté or simply spread with butter.
20. Apple and Speck Canapés
A plate of simple appetizers in the Viennese tradition makes a pretty start to a Mother's Day lunch.
There are hundreds of varieties of apples and some may work better in certain recipes than others, but it's always important to choose fresh, local apples when possible! Visit your local farmer's market to find an orchard or farmer near you.
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Hearty and warming, this dish has an attractive, colourful appearance and a sophisticated yet down-home taste.
6. Apple and Jerusalem Artichoke Soup
The fall crop of Jerusalem artichokes (sunchokes) -- the tubers of a native sunflower-like flower -- is starting to come in. The flavour and tartness of fresh apples cuts through the richness of the almost unctuous roots.
Favourite apple recipes: desserts
7. Apple and Pear Granola Crisp
Oats, nuts, apples and pears make a very healthy combination, especially when sweetening is kept to a minimum.
8. Savoury Apple and Onion Pie
This pie is inspired by Swiss and German traditions. If you wish, top with about 3/4 cup/175 mL grated old Gouda, Gruyère or Cheddar cheese before baking.
9. Apple Pie with Currants and Almonds
This version of apple pie is perfect after an apple-picking excursion. If you like sweet pie, add up to 1/4 cup/60 mL more granulated sugar to the filling.
10. Only-Apples Flan with Crème Anglaise
This cunning apple dessert truly highlights the natural appeal of apples and has all the appeal of a cake but far fewer carbohydrates. Crème anglaise is a classic custard-style sauce that goes with almost any dessert.
11. Green Tomato and Apple Hand Pies
Green tomatoes pair surprisingly well with apples. If apples are tart, add a little more sugar to the filling.
12. Apple Rum Raisin Pie in Phyllo
Use packaged frozen phyllo to form the light, flaky crust in this dessert.
13. Apple Spelt Cake
This Austrian homestyle cake is a wonderfully simple and fairly low-calorie apple dessert. Spelt is an ancient nutty-flavoured low-gluten wheat variety that grows in Alpine regions, so it is popular in breads and baking in Switzerland, Austria and northern Italy. Buy it at bulk or health food stores. If your apples are sweet, reduce the sugar in the apple layer.
14. Apple Pie with Chocolate Hazelnut Crisp
With its unusual crisp topping of hazelnuts and chocolate, no one will call this "plain apple pie."
Favourite apple recipes: snacks
15. Apple-Cheese Muffins
The winning flavours of apples and cheese and a not-too sweet batter make this muffin a good choice for breakfast, a snack or even dessert.
16. Warm Spiced Apple Cider
This warming drink is great to serve when you return home from a walk or to take along in a Thermos.
17. Curried Oven-Dried Apple Slices
Beat cravings for salty snacks with these flavourful chips.
18. Caramel-Apple Beignets
These swoon-inducing beignets (French-style doughnuts), with their fantastically rich dough and enticingly flavourful filling, will make your kitchen more popular than Tim Hortons.
19. Apple Nut Melba Toasts
Apple Nut Bread makes fabulous melba toasts that will keep for weeks while retaining a real apple-and-nut flavour, so it's a great way to preserve any leftover bread, but you might even bake the loaf just for the toasts. They are wonderful with cheese or pâté or simply spread with butter.
20. Apple and Speck Canapés
A plate of simple appetizers in the Viennese tradition makes a pretty start to a Mother's Day lunch.
There are hundreds of varieties of apples and some may work better in certain recipes than others, but it's always important to choose fresh, local apples when possible! Visit your local farmer's market to find an orchard or farmer near you.
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE:
-10 tasty ways to eat apples
-A printer-friendly guide to making classic fruit pies
-4 seasonal apple sauces
Page 1 of 1
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