APPLE RECIPES
Booklet made by the Greek professors and students of 3 Geniko Lykeio Galatsi, participating at Erasmus+ project: A.P.P.L.E.S.
Apple Pie Ingredients:
● 1/2 cup sugar ● 1/2 cup butter ● cinnamon (as much as you like) ● nuts Instructions:
Mix the ingredients into a pan. Then cut four apples (pick two kinds) into slices and place them above your mix. Afterwards, you can put the nuts and the pantespani on top. For the pantespani /cake you will need: ● 1/2 cup flour ● 1/2 cup sugar ● 2 eggs ● 1 & 1/2 tea spoons baking powder ● 1 or 2 vanillas Bake in the oven for an hour at 180οC and the apple pie is ready!
Cookies with apples and cinnamon Ingredients: ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
100gr. butter, 1 egg 130gr. brown sugar 60gr. fresh milk 250gr. all- purpose flour 1 teaspoon of cinnamon 1 vanilla 5gr. cooking soda 1 apple (about 120gr chopped in small pieces) ● 60gr. chopped nuts or hazzels or raisins Instructions: 1. Mix the butter with the brown sugar using a mixer for 4-5 minutes 2. Add the egg and mix for extra 3 minutes 3. Without stopping, add the milk and the flour (which you have first mixed with the cinnamon and the soda) 4. After 2 minutes, stop the mixer, add the apple and the nuts and mix carefully 5. Preheat the oven at 160 degrees (air mode). 6. Drop spoonfuls of cookie dough onto a pre-greased or a lined baking sheet. Make sure you leave spaces between them (they will spread out while baked). 7. Bake for 20 minutes
Apple Muffins Ingredients: ● 2 apples (middle- sized) ● 250 gr all- purpose flour or spelt flour ● 2 teaspoons baking powder ● 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon ● 125 gr. brown sugar plus 4 teaspoons for the decor ● 125 ml miel ● 60 ml runny yogurt or 30 gr. yogurt mixed with 30 ml milk ● 125 ml corn oil, 2 eggs ● 75 gr chopped almonds
Instructions 1. In a bowl mix flour, baking powder and 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon 2. In another bowl by using a whisk you can mix the brown sugar, the miel, the yogurt, the corn oil and the eggs 3. Cut the apples into cubes 4. Add half of the almonds into the flour and put the rest in another bowl 5. Mix the other half of the cinnamon and then 5 teaspoons of brown sugar into almonds. (This will be used for powdering). 6. Preheat oven at 200 degrees. Grease 12 cup muffin pan 7. Add the solid ingredients in one bowl into the other. Add the apples and mix carefully with a whisk 8. With a spoon fill the muffin pan and then powder with the mixture you have made 9. Bake muffins for about 20 min until they have self-raised and browned 10. Allow them to sit for 5 min before removing muffins from pan. Cool on a wire rack.
Apple Spoon Sweet Ingredients ● 14 apples (1500 gr cleaned) ● 1300 gr sugar
● 5 cups of water ● 7-8 cloves ● 2 cinnamon sticks
● 1 pinch of salt ● Juice of 3 lemons ● Peel of 1 lemon
Instructions: 1. We wash the apples thoroughly. 2. We put some water in a bowl and the juice of the 2 lemons (bear in mind that the water must cover the apples). 3. We remove the pits of all the apples with a special utensil. 4. We peel the apples with a sharp knife, and try to clean the corners. 5. We cut them in the middle and we put them into the bowl with water and lemon. 6. When we clean them all, we put in a pot the water, the salt, the sugar, the cinnamon, the cloves, and we let them boil for 5’ on a high flame. 7. We then put the apples in the pot and we cover them with a dish. When they start boiling, we reduce the fire at half. 8. We let them boil for another 5’. 9. We remove the apples from the fire and we let them covered with the dish for 20-24 hours. 10.The next day we take the dish away, put the peel and the lemon juice and we boil the sweet apples again until the sirup boils down for almost 10-15’. 11.We let it cool down and we put it in jars of glass, which will be warm.
Spoon Sweet Firiki Ingredients ● 20 firiki apples (a Greek variety of apples designated as PDO product, famous for its bitter taste) ● 1kg sugar ● 500 ml water ● vanilla ● blanched almonds ● a small bowl with water and lemon juice ● 1 tablespoon lemon juice Instructions 1. Peel the apples and remove the seeds with a tool. 2. Put them in the bowl with the water and the lemon juice so as not to darken, until peeling is finished. 3. In a wide pot put the sugar, the 500ml of the water and the vanilla, and leave it for approximately half an hour. 4. Before removing from heat, test with a fork if it is soft enough, otherwise leave it for a little bit more time. 5. If apples are soft but the syrup seems dilute, remove the apples and let the syrup boil until it thickens a little. 6. Before removing from the heat we can put the apples in a casserole with some lemon juice in order to add flavour. 7. In the inside part of the apples, we can put 2-3 shelled almonds. Finally, we place them in clean jars. This recipe is a traditional Greek one and it is basically cooked in mountainous and hilly areas of the country and mainly in Pelion where the Firiki apple variety originates.
Apple Roses Ingredients ● 4 apples, cored and halved (leave the skin on) ● Juice of 1/2 lemon ● 3 Tbsp marmelade ( we used apple and quince marmelade but you can use your favorite fruit) ● 2 Tbsp water (plus more for apple soak) ● 1 sheet of puff pastry
Instructions: Preheat oven at 375o C 1. Cut the apples in slices. 2. Put apple slices in microwave safe bowl. 3. Fill bowl with water and juice from half a lemon. Use enough water to make sure apple slices are covered by water. Microwave for 3 minutes. This will soften the apple slices and make them more pliable for rolling up. 4. Next grab a sheet of puff pastry. Flour your board and roll out the puff pastry. Cut the pastry with a pizza wheel or a knife to make 6 strips at around 7 cm wide. 5. In a bowl mix your marmalade with a couple tablespoons of water. Then spoon out the marmalade in the center of the strip of puff pastry. 6. Next place the apple slices long ways halfway on the strip. Keep adding slices until you reach the end. Then fold the puff pastry over the bottom of the apple slices. 7. Roll up the puff pastry and place in a greased muffin tin. 8. Bake the apple roses for 35-45 minutes. 9. Pull out of oven and let cool for 5 minutes.
Αpple-Pear Jam Ingredients: ● ● ● ●
1kilogram apples 1kilogram pears 1kilogram sugar 1-2 cinnamon sticks ● juice of one lemon Instructions: 1. Cut the fruits in little pieces 2. Boil the pieces in a pot filled with one glass of water for 10 minutes 3. Afterwards add the sugar and the cinnamon and boil the mix again in mid temperature for 35-40 minutes 4. 5 minutes before removing the pot from heat, we pour in the lemon juice which is used as a natural preservative. 5. We then store our jam in jars
Greek students cooked all of the recipes of this booklet themselves and then we all tasted them together. The recipes were performed by: Apple pie – Spyridoula Mitropoulou Cookies with apple and cinnamon – Christina Hotza Apple muffins – Margarita Papavlasopoulou Apple Spoon sweet – Elisavet Seferidi Spoon sweet Firiki – prof. Chrysanthi Korre Apple Roses – Giannis Monogios, Bill Mentzinis & Dimitris Mallios Apple-Pear Jam – Orfeas Kontogeorgos
Tasting apple pie, apple muffins and Apple spoon sweet
Cooking Apple Roses
Tasting Apple Roses and Spoon sweet Firiki
Cooking Cookies
Cooking Spoon sweet
Tasting Cookies with apples and cinnamon