Kate’s Baked Apples: A Recipe from the Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook
Kate O’Donnell, author of The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook series, shared with us a warming fall recipe ahead of her upcoming workshop Ayurveda: Self-Care Through the Fall Season, held at Una Yoga on Sunday, October 25
Kate’s Baked Apples
Baking these apples will make your home smell like the holidays! This recipe is worth the effort—baking apples renders them very digestible and cleansing. The slow, steady heat of baking increases the grounding quality of the otherwise light and dry apple. Taking a baked apple to enjoy at work will bring you that cozy feeling.
4 large apples, cored
1/4 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cup raisins
4 dried figs, finely chopped
2 dried apricots or dates, finely chopped
3 tsp sweet spice mix
1 cup apple juice, cider or water
16 whole cloves, for decorating the apples
4 tsp honey, optional for garnish
Preheat oven to 350.
Mix all the filling ingredients together in a bowl and let them soak while you core the apples.
Pierce each apple with four cloves (for flavor and decoration). Place the apples side by side in an 8x8 baking dish.
Spoon the filling into the cored apples, letting some sit on top of apples. Pour remaining juices over top and into the pan.
Bake 25 minutes or until very tender. For added flavor, you can “baste” the apples by spooning some of the liquid from the bottom of the pan over the apples part way through cooking.
Optional: Serve with a drizzle of honey over top.
Join Kate O'Donnell and Rich Ray at Una Yoga for an afternoon learning about fall foods and self-care techniques from Ayurveda, and how Ayurveda and the Mind can give you tools to regulate the nervous system, sleep better, and find your calm.
Ayurveda: Self-Care Through the Fall Season will be held at Una Yoga on Sunday, October 25, from 11-2pm
Register here
