I can’t get enough of apples this time of year. One of my favorite desserts is dutch apple pie, however, I reserve all of that latticed dough for Thanksgiving. Until then, slow cooker stuffed apples with figs, pecans, cinnamon, lemon, orange zest, and maple sugar are a beautiful and delicious treat, don’t you agree? If you are craving apple pie, you must give this recipe a try! These are drool-worthy!
Besides apples, figs are another great fruit in the fall. There are many great recipes with figs, but I think the Italians do it best: Bruschetta with Caramelized Figs, Fig and Pear Salad, Fig and Almond Cake, Fig Pie, Fig Gelato, Fig Cookies, Fig Jam…I could go on and on about all of the scrumptious dishes you can make with Figs. Just talking about it makes me want to go on a fig cooking spree!
I know they say an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but I think that is even more true with figs! Figs are known to be loaded with fiber, but they are also bursting with antioxidants, calcium, iron and potassium. Their most unique contribution is pectin. When you eat figs, they ferment into a probiotic in your intestines. How crazy is that!? Other probiotic foods include kombucha, yogurt, kefir, miso, and kimchi. If you don’t do probiotics or those other foods for healthy bacteria, this is one superfood you should reach for daily. Bonus: it doesn’t taste fermented. Who needs a nutritional supplement when you can pop 4 of these every day? Not to mention they are sooo good! I always have dried figs in my house as my fruit snack, but if I had a choice, I would reach for one of these apples instead. Nom Nom Nom! What do you stuff your apples with?
Ingredients
- 5 apples with the center core hollowed out
- *Whatever your favorite baking apples are will work, I used Granny Smith apples
- 5 dried figs (about a 1/4 cup)
- 1/3 cup of maple sugar or coconut sugar
- 1 tsp chopped crystallized dried ginger (crystallize your own with coconut sugar in the dehydrator! yum!) or 1/2 tsp fresh
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- 1/2 tsp orange zest (or another tsp lemon zest)
- 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- *Whatever is left from the lemon, squeeze on top of the apples
Instructions
- Mix the stuffing ingredients together
- Remove the center of each apple
- Stuff the apples with stuffing
- Squeeze the rest of the lemon on top of the apples
- Put the water in the slow cooker (if a little gets on the apples, that's alright)
- Put the apples in a slow cooker for 1.5 hours on high
- I tried to stop eating after 2 apples...Good luck!
What an amazing treat for a sweet tooth, with so much nutritional benefit, it just should be on the guilt list. But it isn’t! Yay, Michaell for giving us another way to get high powered food that tastes good. And, this one is really easy to make.
Now I know why I have my slow cooker ready to go.
And, thanks for mentioning that a serving is 4 figs. I just had my daily 4 and now I know that is just right. Oh, and even though September is fig season, couldn’t find fresh ones. So I bought dried figs, put them in a small bowl of hot water, and sliced them in half. This made them soft and yummy, and just the right sweet snack for 3pm in the afternoon.
That’s perfect! Soaking any dried food is a great way to rehydrate them, as I’m sure you know. Also, no need to soak them for this recipe. Dried figs make the perfect apple stuffing 🙂 Thanks for commenting!
Just met your mom, she told me about the stuffed apples with figs! I have to have one. I will make these tonight, they look tasty. I will pass this to all my family members, here and also there on the west coast.
Hi there! They really are quite awesome. My cravings for apple pie stopped at this recipe. I can’t wait to hear what you think. Thank you so much for commenting and for passing this blog along!
Balkan cuisine has these stuffed apples that are really good. But your recipe is something completely new, and it literally and figuratively takes the cake! I <3 figs so hard. Great recipe!
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Hi Aida. Thanks for commenting! I just looked up balkan cuisine and found a recipe for walnut stuffed apples. They look really good! I do love figs and apples married together, but I’m going to try the balkan version next time. Thanks again!
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I just got fresh figs. I remember trying to order the prosciutto wrapped figs in Rome, and they said, “Come back in September, when the figs are ripe.” Well, it’s September, and I may just use them with slow-cooker apples instead.
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