Heat skillet apples cooked in a buttery brown sugar and cinnamon glaze. These aromatic spiced apples are good served as a facet 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 may make. This barely candy but satisfying recipe is flexible and takes simply 20 minutes to organize. 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 wonderfully tender texture!

Making wholesome cinnamon apples

Select candy apples. This is absolutely the key to assist cut back the quantity of sugar you’ll want or wish 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 delicate heat and an enormous enhance of taste. This concentrate on taste is vital for having fun with more healthy dishes.

Use much less sugar or a sugar various. Utilizing much less sugar makes this a more healthy recipe. I’m utilizing brown sugar however you’ll be able to completely swap in an equal quantity of your favourite various sweetener equivalent to monk fruit.

Notice: 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 good simpler recipe that doesn’t requiring peeling apples, attempt 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!

Greatest sort of apple for stovetop cooking

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

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

I don’t advocate grainy or comfortable apples equivalent to Crimson Scrumptious.

TIP: Make sure to slice your apples to the identical dimension and thickness to make sure even cooking.

Substitutions

Want vegan cinnamon apples? To make this recipe 100% plant primarily based, 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 need to 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 should use coconut sugar or date sugar in case you choose. Coconut sugar will take just a little longer to dissolve and style much less candy in my view.

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