Serve your hunger without being over loaded with chocolate, whipped cream and marzipan. An apple a day keeps a doctor away is very well said proverb and I totally agree with it. Eating fresh apples is always good for you, but to get the full nutritional benefits associated with eating apples you should eat at least one fresh apple every day.
Fruits are rich in nutrients and vitamins which are responsible for fresh and glowing skin. Well all my friends would love to look young and graceful at same time. Apples are rich in fiber and vitamins.
Benefits
It lowers blood cholesterol, improves bowel function and reduces risk of stroke, prostate cancer, type II diabetes and asthma.
The disease-fighting profile of apples provides a multitude of health benefits, including a potential decreased risk of cancer and heart disease.
Apples are a delicious source of dietary fiber, and dietary fiber helps aid digestion and promotes weight loss. Well you cannot resist apples soaked in vanilla syrup
Ingredients
12 tbsp. butter
Softened 4 1/4 cups (300-425gms) of sugar
3 vanilla beans, cut lengthwise
1 medium sized lemon
4(500-750gms) golden delicious or gala apples
8 slices white bread (I prefer brown bread)
Preparation
1. Put the softened butter and (25-30gms) of sugar in a medium mixing bowl.
2. Using the back of a knife, scrape seeds from 1 of the vanilla beans into the butter, then mix well to make a soft, creamy vanilla butter.
3. Reserve vanilla pod.
4. Set vanilla butter aside.
5. Combine remaining sugar and 4 cups water in a saucepan; cover and boil over medium-high heat, swirling pan once or twice, until sugar dissolves, 4-5 minutes.
6. Remove or peel the rind of lemon and remove white pith by slicing lemon into two equal halves.
7. Peel apples, then cut out the core, leaving each apple intact.
8. Squeeze juice from lemon halves over apples to keep them from discoloring.
9. When sugar has dissolved, reduce heat to maintain a gentle simmer flame
10. Add the remaining 2 vanilla beans, the reserved vanilla pod, the reserved lemon rind, and the apples.
11. Poach, partially covered, until apples are just tender when pierced with a skewer, about 15 minutes. Transfer apples with a slotted spoon to a plate and set aside.
12. Pour 1 1/2 cups of the poaching liquid into a small saucepan and simmer on medium-high heat until thickened and syrupy, 10-15 minutes.
13. Set vanilla syrup aside to cool.
14. Reserve remaining poaching liquid.
15. Meanwhile, in a preheated oven to 350degrees F.
16. Spread crumbs (cut crusts of bread into slices and chop some of these slices into medium fine crumbs) of bread evenly on the baking sheet and bake them until golden brown at least for 10minutes(or 15minutes if your bread crumbs do not get golden brown)
17. Set them aside to cool.
18. Roll out each slice of bread with a rolling pin until there is no spring left in its crumb and it is completely flattened.
19. Butter both sides of each slice with some of the reserved vanilla butter.
20. Press 2 slices of bread, one on top of the other, into each of four individual 4 inch tart molds, allowing the corners of the bread to extend over the edge of the mold.
21. Set tart molds on a small baking sheet and bake until bread is brown on the edges and golden in the center, about 30 minutes.
22. Place poached apples upright in the center of each tart crust.
23. Combine bread crumbs and remaining vanilla butter in a medium mixing bowl, then spoon into hollowed-out centers of poached apples.
24. Spoon some of the reserved vanilla syrup over each apple and return to oven to bake until heated through and slightly browned on the edges, about 30 minutes.
25. Serve apples warm, drizzled with some of the reserved poaching liquid.
Via: Yumsugar
