Baked Apples Breakfast Recipe
Key Takeaways
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Baked Apples Recipe: Core organic apples and stuff with raisins, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, nutmeg or cardamom, lemon peel, dot with ghee, bake with apple juice 45 minutes until tender.
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Breakfast Option: Simple oven-baked apples make an aromatic breakfast; variation uses baked pears halved and cored, suitable for using ghee or unsalted butter and apple juice.
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Ayurvedic Dosha: Recipe lists dosha notes as 0 Vata, - Pitta, - Kapha; spices like cinnamon and cardamom reflect traditional Ayurvedic flavoring and seasonal cooking.
0 Vata, - Pitta, - Kapha
Ingredients:
- 4 organic apples
- 2 cups apple juice
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg or cardamom
- ¼ teaspoon organic lemon peel or 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- ½ cup raisins
- ¼ cup sunflower seeds
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Ghee or unsalted butter
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Wash and core apples. Place in 8 inch x 8 inch baking dish.
Mix the raisins, spices, and seeds. Stuff this mixture firmly into the cored apples. Pour the apple juice into the pan and dot the center of each apple with a dollop of ghee or butter. Cover and bake for 45 minutes or until tender.
Variation:
Baked Pears: proceed as above, slicing pears in half and removing the bcore.
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Amadea Morningstar works with Ayurveda as a nutrition educator, writer, and cook. She first trained in Ayurveda in 1983. She is the founder of...
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