How to bake an apple in the microwave, slow cooker or oven for babies

Mothers-in-law and mothers-in-law say that there is nothing better than an apple for a child: tasty, healthy, affordable, and grows in our gardens. The older generation is voicing information that was twenty years old.

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But you want up-to-date answers to your questions, don't you? Find out:

• Is an apple healthy at all?
• From what months can it be given to a child?
• how much fruit can be given to children of different ages;
• how to prepare apple complementary foods for your baby.

At what months should it be included in the baby's diet?

The World Health Organization states that complementary feeding can be safely introduced from 6 months. For children on artificial and mixed feeding, complementary feeding can be given from 4.5-5 months. Confidently reject the advice of grandmothers and do not measure out apple juice drop by drop, do not prepare puree until this age.

Modern pediatricians do not recommend giving fruits and fruit juices to children under 12 months. So, no apples until one year? Not necessary. You have the right to make your own decision, but in this case - only in the form of puree.

From seven months, offer your baby a compote made from local green peeled apples, but without added sugar. Proportions: a small fruit per glass of water. For older children, the pulp and water can be mixed in a blender.

The age of 8-9 months is a common time to introduce an apple into the diet of a healthy baby. Observe here: skin rashes, diarrhea, increased gas formation mean that the child’s body is not yet ready to accept a new dish. Wait another month.

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Fruit platter

The puree made from various fruits with the addition of ginger has an incredible taste. Attention: it is not recommended to give this treat to the youngest children. But adults will happily try it.

Compound:

• 2 apples;
• 2 kiwis;
• 2 pineapple slices;
• 1 tsp. chopped ginger root;
• 1 tsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice;
• 1 tsp. vinegar (apple vinegar only).

Preparation:

A multicooker greatly simplifies the process of solving many culinary tasks. Applesauce prepared in this miracle device will become a real lifesaver for busy mothers. Cook with pleasure and bon appetit!

Fruit and vegetable purees are mandatory products for children's diets. Nowadays you can easily buy ready-made baby purees in jars; there are plenty of them on store shelves. But still, the healthiest and most delicious puree is the one prepared by the hands of a caring mother. At the request of readers from the “” section, I will show you how very easy it is to prepare natural and inexpensive applesauce at home in a slow cooker, because apples are perhaps the most affordable fruit, especially now, in the season when they are local and not imported. Homemade applesauce will become for you not just a replacement for baby food in jars, but also an excellent dessert, an addition to pancakes, and a filling for pies. If you are preparing applesauce for a baby, it is recommended to use green apples, since they are less allergenic than red ones.

How to properly introduce it into complementary foods?

Up to one year of age, products are introduced in the following sequence:

• porridge;
• vegetable purees;
• kefir;
• cottage cheese;
• fruits.

There is no single point of view on the order of introducing the first components of complementary foods. Find the answer yourself or consult your pediatrician.

Find out what color fruits and vegetables your child is allergic to. Eliminate fruits of this color from your diet. As a rule, red apples most often cause a negative response in a small organism, while green apples are much less likely to do so. However, you will have to decide on the optimal variety for complementary feeding yourself.

Apple baked in a slow cooker with cinnamon

What do you need:

• large apple - 1 pc.;
• ground cinnamon - a pinch;
• honey or sugar - 1 tbsp. l.

How to cook:

1. Cut the core out of the apple.
2. Pour honey or sugar into the resulting funnel.
3. Place the apple in the multicooker bowl. Sprinkle a couple of tablespoons of water on the bottom.
4. Sprinkle cinnamon on the apple.
5. Turn on the multicooker by activating the “Baking” program. Cook the fruit for 30 minutes.

Using the same recipe, you can bake apple halves in a slow cooker.

For a child after one year

From 12 months, children can be fed fresh apples. Grate the fruit using a plastic grater to retain more vitamin C, or cut into pieces and peel. Don't sweeten it - natural fruit sugar is much tastier and healthier. At 2 years old, you can give an apple with the peel.

Fruits eaten on an empty stomach are digested in 20 minutes, but apple dessert immediately after a heavy lunch causes fermentation in the stomach. Therefore, fruits should be given between meals.

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Benefit, and that’s all!

Everyone knows that apples are a storehouse of vitamins and healthy components. They especially contain a lot of iron, which is so necessary for a growing body. When steamed, almost all the “benefits” will be preserved in the delicacy.

Compound:

• 5 apples;
• 1 tbsp. filtered water;
• granulated sugar to taste.

Preparation:

1. Wash the apples thoroughly and cut them into four parts.
2. Clean out the cores.
3. And wash the apples again and put them in a colander.
4. Pour water into the multicooker container.
5. Place the apple slices on a steaming grid and sprinkle them with granulated sugar to taste.
6. Let’s enable the corresponding option – “For a couple”.
7. Cook the apples for 15-20 minutes.
8. Let's cool the fruit.
9. Using a spoon, scoop out the apple pulp along with the skins. Of course, if the skins are spoiled, we will throw them away.
10. Using an immersion blender, beat the apple mixture to a puree consistency.
11. Ready! You can treat your baby.

How to bake an apple for a baby?

Classic recipe

1. Turn on the oven and preheat.
2. Wash the fruit, cut out the core with a knife, and pour a little sugar into the resulting hole.
3. Place on a deep baking sheet, adding a little water.
4. After 15 minutes, remove, cool, scoop out the pulp with a spoon and mash.

This dish is given to the little ones. Older children are fed baked apples with peel.

Apple-curd muffins

1. Cut the fruit, put it through a blender or grate it.
2. Add cottage cheese, sugar, mix gently.
3. Pour the mixture into molds.
4. Bake in the microwave or preheated oven.

Simple and healthy food for breakfast or dinner. For a five-year-old child, you can add nuts to these muffins.

In the microwave

1. Place several fruits on a plate and place in the oven for 3 minutes at 600 W.
2. Remove, cut out the core, add sugar.
3. Place in the oven a second time for 3 minutes at 600 W. Monitor the process so that the skin does not burst.
4. Keep the dessert in the microwave until it starts to rise, puffing up. This means that the pulp has turned into mush.
5. Switch off. Get it. Stir and eat the warm puree from the apple cup, and then the cup itself.

Cooking time: 10 minutes.

Video recipe in a double boiler

How to bake apples correctly

First, the apples must be washed under running water. Moreover, if the apples were bought in a store, then it is advisable to use a detergent with a sponge. After all, they are treated with special wax so that they do not deteriorate during transportation and storage. It is very harmful to the body.

Preparing apples for baking

You need to cut off the top of washed apples (where the branch was). The core does not need to be removed. It is believed that the core of the apple contains the most beneficial substances. Therefore, it is best to bake apples whole.

Pour a little cinnamon and sugar, if desired, into the indentation from the top. Usually it is only added if the apple variety is sour. After this you need to add half a spoon of honey. Of course, if you already have cinnamon and sugar, then you don’t have to add honey. But when baked it gives a magical aroma. Now you need to put all the apples on a baking sheet and put them in the oven, which has been preheated.

At what temperature should you bake apples?

Housewives often ask themselves: at what temperature is it best to bake apples? After all, if the oven is too hot, the apples may explode. If, on the contrary, it is weak, they will never bake.

It is best to choose 180 degrees. This is the optimal temperature for this dish.

How long to bake apples?

Bake the apples in the oven for about twenty minutes. Although the cooking time can be varied. It all depends on who loves what more.

• Many people prefer their apples to have a slight crunch. Then they don’t need to be baked for too long.
• For those who, on the contrary, like them to fall apart, you need to bake longer, wait until the peel on the apples begins to burst.

So why are apples so healthy? The fact is that these fruits contain a huge amount of pectin and fiber. The latter improves intestinal function, and pectin helps remove harmful substances from the body.

You need to cut off the top of washed apples (where the branch was). The core does not need to be removed. It is believed that the core of the apple contains the most beneficial substances. Therefore, it is best to bake apples whole.

Preparing for the winter

Chips in the microwave

1. Wash and cut the fruits, put them in salted water for 5 minutes to preserve color.
2. Remove and let the water drain. Place on a plate and place in the oven for 3 minutes at 300 W. Take it out and check for readiness.
3. Now you need to be careful: set the timer at 30-second intervals, constantly checking for readiness. Don't miss the moment when the chips start to burn. After about 3 minutes you will have soft chips.

Try it, it's delicious! Or save it for the winter: put it in a jar with a tight lid and put it in a closet.

You can prepare apple chips in an oven or a special dryer (dehydrator), but this will take much more time. Try not to dry it out!

Dried apples are shelf-stable products. They are used to make compotes in winter or eat after soaking them in water. It is important to preserve dried fruits for a long time. Cardboard boxes, thick fabric bags, plywood boxes lined with parchment, tightly sealed jars, and the freezer are good storage places. Bags and boxes are placed in the coolest place in the house, and best of all - on the balcony.

Applesauce

Cut the apples, remove the seeds, put them in a saucepan, add water (a little).

1. Simmer for 7 to 10 minutes.
2. Rub the hot mass through a sieve or mix with a blender. Add sugar as desired.
3. Boil again and place in sterilized jars. Roll up the lids.

Feed homemade puree to children over one year old in winter.

Compote

1. Fill the jar with fruits a little higher than halfway.
2. Pour boiling water over it and leave until the jar begins to burn your hands.
3. Drain the water into a saucepan, add sugar to make the syrup very sweet.
4. Pour boiling syrup over the fruit, roll up the lid, turn upside down and wrap in a warm blanket for 24 hours.

A large amount of sugar is the key to long-term preservation. After opening the jar in winter, dilute the drink with water to taste.

Mothers often make puree and compote from assorted fruits. Children especially like apple-pumpkin puree and apple-plum compote. In addition to the most popular fruit in Russia, plums, cherries and apricots are sometimes added to home-canned baby food, but always without seeds.

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Unusual puree

Applesauce with condensed milk in a slow cooker turns out incredibly tasty. Serve it with pancakes for breakfast and your family will thank you.

Compound:

• 2 kg of sweet and sour apples;
• 3 tbsp. l. granulated sugar;
• 0.5 tbsp. filtered water;
• 200 ml condensed milk.

Advice! Choose high-quality condensed milk only from natural products. Better yet, make your own condensed milk.

Preparation:

1. We will prepare the products we need. Wash the apples thoroughly.

2. To make the puree tender in taste, peel the apples.
3. Cut the fruit into small pieces.

4. Place the apple slices in a multi-cooker container.
5. Add filtered water.
6. Set the “Quenching” option.
7. Covering the appliance with a lid, simmer the apples for 20-25 minutes after boiling. Don’t forget to periodically open the multicooker and stir the mixture.
8. Then add granulated sugar and stir. Cook the treat for another five minutes.
9. Transfer the resulting mass to a saucepan, cool slightly and use an immersion blender to beat until smooth.

10. Add condensed milk and stir well. Change the amount of condensed milk based on your own taste preferences.

11. Bring the puree to a boil in a saucepan on the stove, then simmer for five minutes on the lowest burner level.
12. Pour the puree into sterilized containers and roll up the lids.
13. Store in the refrigerator.

Baked apples with cheesecake

What do you need:

• apples – 3-4 pcs.;
• egg yolk – 1 pc.;
• cottage cheese – 150 g;
• vanilla sugar – 20 g;
• ground cinnamon - to taste.

How to cook:

1. Combine cottage cheese with egg yolks and vanilla sugar, beat.
2. Stuff the curd mixture into the apples from which the cores have previously been removed.
3. Place the fruit in the slow cooker, sprinkle with cinnamon, and bake for 30 minutes.

Apples according to this recipe are prepared quickly and simply, but their taste is incomparable. This dessert can even be made for a festive table, for example, for a child’s birthday.

Multicooker dish

A baked apple in a slow cooker for a child can be prepared using different fillings. Let's look at two possible options.

With cottage cheese and raisins

You need to prepare:

• apples - three pieces;
• three teaspoons of cottage cheese;
• two teaspoons of sour cream;
• three pinches of granulated sugar;
• Art. spoon of raisins.

1. The fruits are thoroughly washed, the lid is cut off, and the middle is cleaned. This must be done carefully and be sure to leave thick enough walls so that when baking the fruit does not turn into puree.

2. Combine cottage cheese with sugar, raisins and sour cream in a container. Mix well.

3. Fill the apples with filling.

4. Place the stuffed fruit at the bottom of the bowl. Close the lid. Set the “baking” mode. The dish takes thirty minutes to prepare. If this time is not enough and the apples are still a little hard, then turn on the “warm” mode, and the dish continues to cook for another half hour.

5. When placing the apples on a plate, you can pour honey over them.

Option with oatmeal

To prepare, take:

• apples;
• two teaspoons of oatmeal for each fruit;
• half a teaspoon of honey for each apple;
• dried apricots;
• boiling water.

1. The dried apricots are thoroughly washed and filled with hot water. Leave for five minutes to swell. Then they are crushed into small pieces.
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2. Oatmeal is mixed with honey and dried fruit.

3. The prepared fruits are placed in a bowl and filled with water. The “baking” program is set.

Awesome dessert of baked apples with toffee

What do you need:

• apples – 3 pcs.;
• toffee – 3 pcs.;
• vanilla ice cream – 3 scoops;
• sugar – 10 g;
• cinnamon – 5 g;
• butter – 30-40 g.

How to cook:

1. Cut off the tops of the apples and remove the cores. Leave the sides of the fruit about 1 cm wide and the bottom the same thickness. Cut the fruit crosswise until about halfway through (after baking, the “petals” will unfurl and the apples will resemble flowers). Place toffee in each.
2. Brush the apples with melted butter and sprinkle with granulated sugar mixed with cinnamon.
3. Place the fruits in the multicooker bowl and bake them until tender (this takes 30 minutes).
4. Place the apples in bowls and let them cool.

All that remains is to put a scoop of ice cream in each “flower” and serve a stunning dessert to the table.