Description
Beloved British chef Jamie Oliver’s baked apples offer a simple dessert with rich autumn flavors. Cinnamon-spiced walnuts and sweet dried fruits nestle inside warm, tender apples ready to delight your palate.
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 large apples, rinsed and patted dry
- 3 tbsps (43g / 1.5 oz) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- ¼ cup (50g) packed light or dark brown sugar
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
- ¼ cup (21g) old-fashioned whole rolled oats
- 2 tbsps raisins, dried cranberries, or chopped nuts (optional)
- ¾ cup (180 ml / 6 fl oz) warm water
Instructions
- Preparation: Preheat oven to 191°C (375°F), creating an ideal thermal environment for baking apples.
- Filling Creation: Blend butter, sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg into a harmonious mixture, gently folding in oats, nuts, raisins, and dried cherries to craft a rich, textured filling.
- Apple Transformation: Select pristine, symmetrical apples, meticulously coring them with a precise vertical cut, leaving a three-quarter depth cavity and removing seeds with a delicate spoon touch.
- Architectural Assembly: Position cored apples in a ceramic dish, lavishly filling each with the prepared oat mixture until generously overflowing, then delicately pour warm water around the apple base to establish a protective moisture barrier.
- Culinary Alchemy: Slide the prepared dish into the preheated oven, allowing the apples to bake for 40-45 minutes, transforming them into tender, almost translucent vessels of sweet complexity.
- Final Flourish: Upon extraction, optionally caress the baked apples with their own luxurious pan juices, enhancing their glossy exterior and amplifying the depth of flavor.
Notes
- Choose Perfect Apples: Select firm, symmetrical baking apples like Honeycrisp or Granny Smith that hold their shape during cooking and provide a delightful texture.
- Prevent Core Cracking: Cut cores carefully, stopping three-quarters down to maintain apple structure and prevent splitting during baking.
- Create Moisture Magic: Adding warm water to the baking dish creates a protective environment, ensuring even cooking and preventing apple burning.
- Customize Cooking Time: Adjust baking duration between 40-45 minutes depending on desired apple softness – shorter for firmer texture, longer for melt-in-your-mouth consistency.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: British
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 4
- Calories: 220
- Sugar: 20g
- Sodium: 5mg
- Fat: 9g
- Saturated Fat: 5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 34g
- Fiber: 3g
- Protein: 1g
- Cholesterol: 15mg