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Healthy baked apples with golden oat and walnut crumble tops in a ceramic baking dish, cinnamon sticks and cranberries beside it, Christmas lights behind

Healthy Baked Apples

Whole Honeycrisp apples cored without piercing the bottom and filled with a small oat, walnut and cranberry crumble sweetened with one spoon of maple syrup for six apples. Baked under foil, then uncovered until the tops toast, and served warm with orange scented Greek yogurt instead of ice cream. About 200 calories per stuffed apple against roughly 340 for a slice of classic apple pie, made for the Christmas table.

  • Total Time: 55 minutes
  • Yield: 6 servings 1x

Ingredients

Scale
  • 6 large Honeycrisp or Fuji apples, about 8 ounces each
  • 1/2 cup rolled oats
  • 1/4 cup walnuts, finely chopped
  • 2 tablespoons dried cranberries, roughly chopped
  • 1 tablespoon maple syrup
  • 1 tablespoon butter, melted
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup water, for the baking dish
  • 1/2 cup plain nonfat Greek yogurt
  • 1 teaspoon orange zest
  • Extra cinnamon, for dusting at serving

Instructions

  1. Heat the oven to 375 degrees F. Choose a baking dish that holds the six apples snugly without crowding.
  2. Core the apples from the top, leaving a solid floor of flesh about 3/4 inch thick at the bottom of each well. Stand them in the dish and check that none of them lean.
  3. Stir the oats, walnuts, cranberries, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt together in a medium bowl until the spice coats everything evenly.
  4. Pour the melted butter, maple syrup and vanilla over the oat mixture and stir until it clumps lightly, like a loose crumble.
  5. Spoon the filling into the apples, dividing it evenly and packing it down gently, then mound the last of it slightly on top.
  6. Pour the water into the bottom of the dish around the apples.
  7. Cover the dish tightly with foil and bake for 25 minutes, until the apples have begun to soften and the filling has set.
  8. Remove the foil and bake 12 to 15 minutes more, until the oat tops are golden and a knife slid into the side of an apple meets tender flesh with slight resistance.
  9. Stir the Greek yogurt with the orange zest. Rest the apples 10 minutes, then serve warm with a spoonful of the yogurt and a dusting of cinnamon.
  • Author: Nora Ellis
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 40 minutes

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1
  • Calories: 200
  • Sugar: 24
  • Sodium: 90
  • Fat: 6
  • Saturated Fat: 1
  • Unsaturated Fat: 5
  • Trans Fat: 0
  • Carbohydrates: 35
  • Fiber: 5
  • Protein: 4
  • Cholesterol: 5

Find it online: https://nourishtable.com/healthy-baked-apples/