Baked Apples with Hazelnuts
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45 minutes
These baked apples are cooked with a white wine sauce as well as a wonderful hazelnut, sultana and cinnamon stuffing.
PetraStange
3 people made this
Ingredients
Serves: 4
- Wine Sauce
- 1 tablespoon cornflour
- 3 egg yolks
- 2 cups (500ml) milk
- 1/2 vanilla bean
- 1/3 cup (90g) caster sugar
- 2 cups (500ml) dry white wine
- Filling
- 4 tablespoons hazelnuts, chopped
- 2 tablespoons caster sugar
- 4 teaspoons sultanas
- 15g butter, softened
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Apples
- 4 large apples, peeled and cores removed with an apple corer
Directions
Preparation:15min ›
Cook:30min ›
Ready in:45min
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
- Wine Sauce: In a small bowl, mix together cornflour, egg yolks and just enough milk to make a smooth paste.
- Bring the scraped vanilla bean, sugar and remaining milk to the boil. Whisk in the cornflour mixture and wine. Bring to the boil. Remove from heat and beat a few times. Let cool.
- Filling: Mix together hazelnuts, sugar, sultanas, butter and cinnamon. Use to stuff the apple cavities.
- Transfer apples to a buttered ovenproof dish. Pour over wine sauce and bake uncovered for 30-40 minutes. Serve with ice cold vanilla custard.
