Heat skillet apples cooked in a buttery brown sugar and cinnamon glaze. These aromatic spiced apples are good served as a aspect dish, over oats for breakfast or with a dollop of cream for a healthy-ish dessert.

Spiced apples are one of many best fall recipes you can also make. This barely candy but satisfying recipe is flexible and takes simply 20 minutes to arrange. Go away the on apple peels for ease and an additional enhance of fiber and diet.

To make this recipe: collect apples, cinnamon and nutmeg, sugar or your favourite sweetener, butter or vegan butter and a pinch of salt.

The important thing to cooking skillet apples completely each time is slicing the fruit into the identical sized items – each form and thickness. This ensures even cooking and a superbly tender texture!

Making wholesome cinnamon apples

Select candy apples. This is absolutely the key to assist scale back the quantity of sugar you’ll want or need to use to sweeten the recipe. As a substitute of Granny Smith, I’m utilizing Honeycrisp apples. Cameo and Envy ones are additionally crisp and candy.

Add spice. Cinnamon provides a refined heat and a giant enhance of taste. This give attention to taste is vital for having fun with more healthy dishes.

Use much less sugar or a sugar different. Utilizing much less sugar makes this a more healthy recipe. I’m utilizing brown sugar however you may completely swap in an equal quantity of your favourite different sweetener reminiscent of monk fruit.

Observe: If you happen to omit the sugar, your apples won’t have a syrupy glaze and many individuals won’t discover them candy sufficient.

For a fair simpler recipe that doesn’t requiring peeling apples, strive my No-Sugar Added Sluggish Cooker Applesauce. The sluggish cooked apples break down right into a candy and scrumptious sauce. And also you received’t miss the sugar!

Finest sort of apple for stovetop cooking

Select agency, candy apples that may maintain their form in the course of the cooking course of. A couple of of the most effective choices embrace these or comparable varieties:

• Honeycrisp
• Fuji or Braeburn
• Jonagold
• Cortland
• Granny Smith (particularly good for a tart taste)

I don’t suggest grainy or tender apples reminiscent of Crimson Scrumptious.

TIP: You should definitely slice your apples to the identical measurement and thickness to make sure even cooking.

Substitutions

Want vegan cinnamon apples? To make this recipe 100% plant based mostly, use an equal quantity of vegan butter.

Arrowroot powder may be swapped for an equal quantity of cornstarch.

Don’t have cinnamon? Cinnamon is a pure match however you should use different heat spices like cardamom or home made apple pie spice for extra depth of taste.

Swapping brown sugar. Brown sugar provides a wealthy, molasses-like taste to the apples. You need to use coconut sugar or date sugar in case you favor. Coconut sugar will take somewhat longer to dissolve and style much less candy for my part.

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