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This baked apples with raisins Sunflower seeds and recipe makes it easy to use your preserved raisins in a traditional dessert everyone will enjoy.
by Fotolia/Liv Friis-larsen
45 minutes COOK TIME
4 servings SERVINGS
Ingredients
- 4 large Cortland apples
- 1/2 cup homemade raisins
- 1/4 cup sunflower seeds
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1 cup apple cider
- Non-fat vanilla flavored yogurt
Directions
- Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350 degrees.
- Core apples and remove the top third of the peel. Combine raisins, seeds, zest, juice and spices.
- Place apples in a baking dish just large enough to hold them snugly. Fill apple centers with raisin mixture; pour cider over apples.
- Cover and bake 45 minutes, basting as needed. Serve with a spoonful of the vanilla-flavored yogurt.
This Baked Apples With Sunflower Seeds and Raisins Recipe uses your preserved grape crop as part of a warming baked apple dessert.
Read more about growing and preserving seedless grapes: Sensational Seedless Grapes.
— From The Cook’s Garden by Ellen Ecker Ogden
Author Kris Wetherbee and her photographer husband, Rick, tend an 8,000-square-foot organic garden, along with sheep, cows, chickens and pigeons on their 40-acre homestead in the foothills of western Oregon.
