Apple candy is an original Russian delicacy. There is even a “Museum of Pastila” in Kolomna, but it appeared thanks to the landowner Ambrosiy Prokhorov. It was he who suggested beating apples and drying them in the oven, for which he was awarded a medal at the gardening exhibition in St. Petersburg. Today, such a delicacy can be bought at any store or cooked at home - it will take a little food, but a lot of time.

Oven apple pastille

Homemade fruit pastille is a real tasty dessert rich in nutrients and vitamins. Therefore, instead of the purchased marmalade, it is better to cook a natural product that will appeal not only to the smallest gourmets, but also to their parents.

Cooking method:

  1. We take two kilos of apples, put them in a deep baking sheet, pour half a glass of water, turn on the oven at 170 ° C and bake for 40 minutes.
  2. We bake the baked fruits and cool and with the help of a sieve we grind in mashed potatoes.
  3. Puree the applesauce in a saucepan and cook over low heat until the mass becomes thick.
  4. Next, beat the composition with a blender together with a glass of sugar until the sweet granules completely dissolve. The mass should increase in volume and lighten.
  5. Now we take a baking sheet and cover it with parchment, on which we spread the thickened mass. We level it and dry in the oven for 6 hours (temperature 50 ° C), then turn it over and dry it a little more.
  6. Baking paper from the finished pastille will not be so easy to remove, so moisten it with water and leave it for a few minutes. Such a simple technique will help to maintain a smooth dessert surface.

Apple marshmallows can be rolled up or cut into squares.

Cooking in a slow cooker

In a slow cooker, you can quickly cook apple pastille.For a recipe you will need a kilo of apples, a spoonful of honey and some water.

Cooking method:

  1. To speed up the cooking process, peel the fruit from the peel, core and cut into small pieces.
  2. Now we put the obtained slices together with two tablespoons of water in the bowl, select the option “Baking” and set the time to 40 minutes.
  3. After this time, you need to remove the allocated juice, and cool the contents of the bowl.
  4. Add honey to the baked fruit and beat the mass with a blender until mashed.
  5. Thinly spread the mass on a baking sheet and dry in the oven or on an ordinary windowsill.

If you want to make a sweeter candy, then replace the honey with regular sugar. The finished product is best stored in a glass container.

Apple Cake Delicacy

Two healthy products can be prepared from apples at once - this is juice and pastille. The pulp of fruit will go to us juice, the cake - to the discussed delicacy. But how to cook a natural dessert from seemingly already processed raw materials, you will learn right now.

Cooking method:

  1. We put the apple cake in a pan, fill it with two glasses of water and cook for half an hour.
  2. The cooled mass must be spread out on a baking sheet with a thin layer and dried in the oven for an hour at a temperature of 100 ° C and with the door open so that the pastille does not turn out to be baked.
  3. During cooking, sugar, sweet powder or honey can be added to the pastille. But even without all the sweeteners, such a dessert turns out to be very tasty and low-calorie. To give it a little sweetness, just cut the pastille into small squares and sprinkle them with powdered sugar.

Recipe for Electric Dryer

Is it possible to compare a natural and healthy dessert even with the most expensive sweets? Moreover, fruit candy can be prepared at home. Especially today, when there are many different appliances that work real miracles in the kitchen.

 

One of them is an electric dryer, which allows you to quickly make a pastille from apples. As a rule, in such devices pallets without holes are provided on which fruits will be dried. If there is no such supplement, then you can buy special sheets for dryers or use a regular silicone mat.

Pastila can be prepared with sugar or honey, but we will tell you how to make dessert without additives.

Cooking method:

  1. The peeled pieces of fruit need to be crushed to puree in a meat grinder or a blender.
  2. From the resulting mass, you need to drain the juice, and spread the puree itself on a pallet with a thin layer.
  3. We put the tray with the contents in the dryer, turn on the device and dry it. The readiness of the pastille should be checked by touching the center - if the product does not stick, then the dessert is ready.
  4. We turn the warm pastille into a roll or simply cut into small squares.

Natural Applesauce Marshmallow

If you have already prepared mashed potatoes, then the process of making pastille becomes even easier. The main thing is to observe the correct heat treatment. If the house has a modern electric stove, then you should not worry, but with the old gas stove there may be difficulties. But there is one secret that will not spoil the dessert - just do not completely close the oven door during drying.

Cooking method:

  1. In the finished apple puree, add sugar or honey to taste, whisk, so that the mass doubles.
  2. On a baking sheet with baking paper, thinly pour a sweet fruit composition and dry in the oven for 6 hours (temperature 80 ° C).
  3. Cut the finished pastille into pieces.

With powdered sugar

From apples, sweet powder and egg whites, you can make a very tasty, but healthy dessert. Write down the recipe, everything is simple here.

Ingredients:

  • 1.3 kg of apples;
  • three glasses of sugar;
  • four egg whites;
  • 60 g of sweet powder.

Cooking method:

  1. First of all, put the fruits in a deep baking sheet and hold in the oven until soft (temperature 170 ° C).
  2. Mash the baked apples. You can use an ordinary sieve for this.
  3. Beat the whites in a thick foam, mix applesauce with regular sugar, then combine the protein and fruit mixture.
  4. Cover the baking sheet with baking paper and pour the resulting mass onto it. Level it and dry in the oven for 12 hours (temperature 60 ° C).
  5. Cut the finished dessert into small pieces and sprinkle with sweet powder.

How to cook outdoors

If in the yard in the summer the sun is frying with might and main, then the time has come to prepare dried desserts. So, without ovens and special electric dryers, you can cook apple marshmallows.

Cooking method:

  1. We begin the cooking process by removing the peel from the apples, peeling them from the seeds, and cutting them into small pieces. We put the slices in a pan, pour water and simmer the fruit until soft.
  2. Filter boiled fruit through a sieve to remove all the liquid, and grind it in mashed potatoes.
  3. We distribute the thick mass in a thin layer on a baking sheet with cooking paper and place it in the sun.
  4. As a rule, such a drying technology takes from three to five days, it is better to clean the pastille for the night at home. As soon as the top side dries, turn the dessert over and leave it in the sun for a few more hours.

Homemade apple and honey pastille

Since fruit pastille is a natural product, sweeteners should also have the same beneficial properties. So instead of regular high-calorie sugar, it is better to use nutritious vitamin honey.

Cooking method:

  1. Peel the apples, cut and simmer with water until soft.
  2. Then we turn the fruit slices into mashed potatoes, add honey to taste. You can also put some cinnamon for the flavor.
  3. We level the aromatic mass on a baking sheet with parchment and dry it in the oven, in an electric dryer or just in the open air. Cooking time depends on the drying option selected.

The finished pastille can be stored for several months, just wrap the dessert with paper and put in the refrigerator. The truth is whether such a delicacy will remain intact until the end of the term, a rhetorical question.

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