"Golden recipes" for delicious apple preparations for the winter

Apple jam

Any varieties are suitable for jam - from Antonovka to more rare and specific ones. We present four main recipes for this winter dessert.

"Five minutes"

This recipe is very popular as it makes great jam in a short amount of time.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of apples;
• 400 g sugar;
• spices (optional): vanilla, cinnamon.

How to prepare a dish:

1. Each apple must be thoroughly rinsed under running water. Cut off the peel from them only if there is damage on it.
2. The next step is slicing. Apples are best cut into wedges, but can be diced if desired. The only rule is don't cut them too large.
3. Sprinkle generously with sugar on top, mix thoroughly so that each wedge is candied. After the apples have been mixed, place them in a saucepan.
4. Leave the saucepan with apples in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
5. During this time, a sufficient amount of juice should be released, which will be your syrup. If there is too little of it, just add some water.
6. Turn on the heat and place the pan with the resulting mass. Bring to a boil and cook for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally with a spoon, to prevent the brew from burning.
7. Now prepare the jars separately. Each jar must be washed and sterilized in order to preserve the jam immediately.
8. Pour the resulting dessert into jars, let it cool for a few days, and place in a cool, dark place.

Jam in a slow cooker

You will be able to cook a delicious dessert even if you do not have a stove, but there is a slow cooker. To do this, you need:

• 1 kg of apples;
• 0.5 kg of sugar.

How to prepare this dessert:

1. Wash the apples well and cut into thin slices.
2. Place them in a multicooker. Do not feel sorry for the apples and stack them in a dense layer, end-to-end.
3. Pour your sugar on top. Moreover, it is better not to pour on all the slices, but pour granulated sugar into the center of the bowl, so that later it is evenly distributed.
4. Now everything is simple: turn on the "Stew" mode and leave your mixture to simmer for two hours.
5. Turn off the multicooker, and without cooling, pour the freshly made jam into jars.

Sugar-free apple marshmallow

Making homemade marshmallows is very simple and quick. All you need is apples and sugar. This is a great dessert that will delight the whole family. Required proportions:

• 4.5 kg of apples;
• 4 kg of sugar.

How to do:

1. We bake the apples whole in the oven. No additional manipulations with fruits are carried out, they are simply laid out on a baking sheet and sent to bake.
2. It is not difficult to understand that the fruit has already been cooked. They will change color and become darker, and then crack a little.
3. Now take a sieve and rub the fruit through it. During these actions, seeds, peel and core should be sifted from the grated apple.
4. Pour sugar into the resulting puree and put this mixture on the stove so that it boils until medium thick.
5. Now take a deep baking sheet and place the resulting mass on it in an even and thick layer. Adjust the temperature to 70 ° C and place your dessert in the oven. Bake for 12 hours.
6. When the candy is ready, just remove it from the oven, cool it, sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired.

Jam with slices "Amber"

Such jam is the best dessert for the winter, which can be enjoyed by the whole family.

You will need:

• 1 kg of apples;
• 1 kg of sugar.

The procedure is as follows:

1. Rinse the fruits thoroughly with water and cut into slices, removing all seeds from them.
2. Pour sugar into a saucepan, then add a little (about 100 ml) water and cook until the syrup becomes transparent and the granulated sugar is completely dissolved.
3. Add the apples to the saucepan and place the brew on the stove.
4. After boiling, boil it for 5 minutes, and then remove from heat and let cool properly.
5. Repeat the procedure twice more.
6. Now you can put the prepared dessert in pre-sterilized jars without cooling and complete the canning.

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Compotes

Apples also make excellent compotes that take us back to childhood. We will tell you two basic recipes so that you can indulge yourself with this wonderful drink.

With rose hips and lemon

Quite a simple and healthy compote recipe using rose hips and citric acid.

You will need:

• 2 handfuls of rose hips;
• 3 liters of water;
• 2 apples;
• lemon acid.

How to cook:

1. Boil water, add rosehip berries there and keep on fire until the brew boils. Then reduce heat and simmer for about 10-15 minutes.
2. At this time, you can prepare your fruit. Cut them into wedges, remove the seeds and place in a saucepan over the rose hips.
3. Increase the heat again and bring your broth to a boil. Once it boils, turn off the heat and leave on the stove with a pinch of lemon juice.
4. Strain and enjoy.

With orange without sterilization

The peculiarity of this compote is that the jars do not need to be sterilized before conservation. All you have to do with the jar is rinse it out with baking soda. To make a blank, you will need:

• 10 apples;
• half an orange;
• 1.5 cups of sugar;
• 3 liters of water.

Procedure:

1. Put the water on the fire so that it boils.
2. Prepare apples and an orange: just wash the apples under water, and cut the orange in half and cut into slices.
3. Place the fruits in a jar so that they fill about a third of the entire space.
4. Fill the jar with freshly boiled water and wait 5-7 minutes.
5. After that, pour the water into a saucepan and boil the broth again.
6. Pour water into the jars again, and this time screw them up with a lid.

Delicious apple preparations

In addition to jam, jam or apple compote, you can make many other delicious preparations.

Apples in grape syrup

This very original dish is not difficult to make. You will need:

• 1.5 kg of grapes;
• 50 ml of water;
• 0.5 kg of sugar;
• 1.3 kg of sweet apples.

Now the recipe itself:

1. Soak the berries in a bowl of water, and then drain the water.
2. Next, add pure water and put the grapes on fire. Cover with a lid and cook for at least 30 minutes so that the berries are well boiled and softened.
3. After a lot of juice is released, you need to squeeze it out and get rid of the pulp and skin. Pour the juice into a separate saucepan, add sugar to it and cook for another half hour.
4. Remove the skin from the fruit and cut it into small cubes so that they are properly soaked in syrup.
5. Pour fruit into grape syrup and cook for a quarter of an hour. After that, remove the brew from the stove and let it cool down.
6. Repeat the procedure two more times.
7. Ready! You can pour the dessert into the jars.

Apple marmalade

The apple marmalade recipe for the winter will be a real boon for sweet lovers.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of apples;
• 0.5 kg of sugar.

Procedure:

1. Grind apples with a blender or rub through a sieve.
2. Add sugar to the resulting puree and cook over low heat until it hardens.
3. In order for the marmalade to freeze faster, a bag with apple peel and seeds is preliminarily placed in the water. After cooking, it is removed.
4. After cooking, the marmalade can be dried in the oven.

Apple-pear puree

To prepare this delicious puree you will need:

• 250 g apples;
• 250 g of pears;
• 400 g of sugar.

What to do:

1. Rinse the fruits under running water, peel them off and remove the seeds. Then cut them into cubes or slices and place them on the bottom of the saucepan.
2. Add 1 tbsp to them. l. water.
3. Heat until the water boils, and simmer for half an hour over low heat, not forgetting to put a lid on top. As a result, the fruit should become soft.
4. Grind the resulting mass with a blender until puree right in the pan.
5. Add sugar to the mixture, bring to a boil and stir well.
6. Done, you can put the puree in the jars.

Indian Chutney sauce

Making a salty Indian Chutney sauce in your kitchen is not at all as difficult as it seems.

You will need:

• 1 kg of apples;
• 1 liter of water;
• 1 tbsp. l. mustard;
• 1 kg tomato;
• 2 pcs. onions;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 0.5 cups raisins;
• 0.75 cups sugar;
• 5 tsp curry;
• 200 ml of apple cider vinegar;
• 4 tsp salt.

How to cook:

1. Remove the skin from the apples, cut them into wedges, place in a saucepan, add water and cook.
2. After boiling water, they must be boiled for another 25 minutes.
3. Wrap the mustard in cheesecloth and place in a saucepan.
4. Add chopped onions.
5. Remove the skin from the tomato, cut it (no need to mince it) and put it in a saucepan.
6. Add curry, sugar, pepper and raisins. Don't forget to add salt. The final touch is finely chopped garlic and apple cider vinegar.
7. Now cook, stirring slightly, for 3 hours.
8. Remove the mustard before pouring into the jars.

Pickled apples with pepper

To prepare this dish you will need:

• 3 kg of bell pepper;
• 3 kg of apples;
• 4 liters of water;
• 800 g sugar;
• 300 ml vinegar.

What to do to prepare apples:

1. Wash and cut the peppers (strips) and apples (quarters).
2. Boil water, throw sugar and vinegar into it.
3. First, boil the pepper for 1-2 minutes, take it out and put it in jars.
4. Apples follow the same pattern.
5. Pour the marinade over the jars and close.

Drying apples in the oven

The apple is a great dried fruit and is quite easy to dry.

We will now talk about how to make dried apples. You only need apples and sugar.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Wash the fruit and cut into rings.
2. Boil the sugar syrup, cool it and place the apples there for a day.
3. Place baking paper and apples on a baking sheet.
4. Place in oven for 6-8 hours at 60 ° C. Turn the slices over from time to time.
5. The dried delicacy is ready!

Here are the basic recipes for the blanks, so now you just have to choose the one you like and cook it.