Baked Apples Stuffed With Figs and Walnuts
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 6 large baking apples (Rome Beauties, Pippins, or Golden Delicious)
- 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
- 1⁄2 cup cut up dried calimyrna figs or 1/2 cup black mission fig
- 1⁄2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts
- 4 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1⁄4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup chilled heavy cream (optional)
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°; lightly butter a 13x9 inch baking dish.
- Core apples; using a vegetable peeler, remove a 1-inch wide strip around the top of each apple; place the apples in the prepared baking dish.
- Lightly brush a food processor bowl and blade with the vegetable oil and finely chop the figs and walnuts.
- Add in the butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon; process until blended; transfer the mixture to a small bowl.
- Stuff the cored apples tightly with the fig mixture, mounding any extra on top of the apples.
- Bake the apples, basting them occasionally, with any juices that form, until tender when pierced with a metal or wooden skewer, 45 minutes to 1 hour.
- Serve warm, either plain or with heavy cream.
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