Not all sweets are a threat to the human body and are contrary to the principles of a healthy diet. A vivid example of this is apple marshmallow, prepared at home from healthy apples. It can be thin and dark or magnificent, similar to a souffle, and light. In the process of its preparation, an oven, a slow cooker, an electric dryer for fruits and vegetables or a bright summer sun will provide indispensable help.

Oven apple pastille

Thin apple leaf pastille cooked in the oven is a way to preserve the benefits of fruits in a compactly rolled roll until winter. This preparation is called still left-handed or fig, it can be prepared with or without sugar.

On one thin sheet of pastille, take:

  • 1500 g of unrefined fresh apples;
  • 300 g of sugar (or to taste, or even without it);
  • 50 ml of water.

Step by step recipe:

  1. Wash apples, wipe dry with a towel, if there are rotten or spoiled places, cut them out. Cut each fruit into quarters.
  2. Pour water into a pan with a thick bottom so that the fruits do not burn, and add the apple quarters. Then simmer everything on low heat with occasional stirring until the moment when the flesh disperses in mashed potatoes (about a quarter of an hour). An important component that provides the viscosity of applesauce and the elasticity of the prepared pastille is pectin, which is contained in sufficient quantities in the peel, so it’s better to stew and mashed the apples with the peel.
  3. Open the lid and allow the workpiece to boil for some more time so that excess moisture comes out. Then rub the mashed potatoes through a sieve to separate the peel of the seeds and other meal. Mix the resulting puree with sugar.
  4. Cover the baking sheet with parchment or foil, which must be slightly greased with vegetable oil. After that, put applesauce on it with a 5 mm layer.
  5. Then dry the pastille in the oven at 70-100 degrees with the door ajar or in convection mode for about 6-8 hours. The finished product will become hard and will have a glossy surface.
  6. Carefully remove baking paper from the pastille and then store it in a bag in the refrigerator, folded into a neat roll.

Cooking in a slow cooker

In addition to baking in the oven and languishing with a small amount of water on the stove, applesauce - the basis of pastille can be prepared using such a modern gadget as a slow cooker.

In this case, it is necessary to prepare:

  • 1500 g ripe apples;
  • 300 g of granulated sugar;
  • 2-3 g of vanillin.

Homemade process in a multicooker:

  1. Grind the apple flesh peeled and core to a puree condition using a blender, combine it with sugar and vanilla, transfer to a multicooker and cook in the Cooking mode for 90 minutes.
  2. Arrange the mashed potatoes after the heat treatment for drying on greased baking paper (parchment) and dry in any way possible (oven, electric dryer, hot summer sun).

Apple Cake Delicacy

During the preparation of juices with the help of juice cookers and juicers, a lot of waste remains - cake. Delicious marshmallows can be made from this by-product. Only in this case, apples for juice must first be peeled and peeled so that they do not fall into the marshmallow.

The proportions of the ingredients for the procurement will be as follows:

  • 1000 g of apple cake;
  • 150 g of sugar;
  • 50 ml of water.

The sequence of actions:

  1. In a container with a thick bottom, push-ups with water are languishing until they soften. Then sugar is added, everything is mixed and boiled for 20 minutes, opening the lid so that excess moisture evaporates.
  2. The mashed potatoes are allowed to cool slightly, and then dried in any of the available ways: in the oven with the door ajar (at 60-100 ° C), in the electric dryer (at 65-70 ° C), or in the open air, covered with gauze from insects.

Recipe for Electric Dryer

You can cook pastille not only from applesauce, which has undergone heat treatment, but also from raw fruits. So in the finished treat, more nutrients are stored. Only in this case it is better to use a special device for dehydration - an electric dryer.

To prepare apple pastille from raw apples in an electric dryer, you will need:

  • 2000 g of apples;
  • 200 g of sugar;
  • cinnamon to taste.

Cooking method:

  1. Peel the washed fruit, cut the seed boxes, and turn the resulting pulp into mashed potatoes using a blender. In its absence, you can just grate the apples on a fine grater, but in this case, the finished marshmallow will not be so plastic.
  2. In raw apple puree add sugar and some cinnamon as desired. Immediately place the resulting mass on paper-covered pallets of the electric dryer with a layer of no more than 0.5 cm. Dry for 6-9 hours, remembering to periodically change the pallets.

Natural Applesauce Marshmallow

Natural Belevskaya pastille, made from applesauce, is not inferior to air marshmallow. This delicacy glorified not only the city of Belev in the Tula region, but also the merchant Prokhorov, who established its production.

To reproduce this delicacy at home, you must prepare:

  • 2000 g of apples;
  • 100 g of white crystalline sugar;
  • 1 egg white
  • some powdered sugar to sprinkle.

How to cook:

  1. Bake apples in the oven until cooked (40 minutes at 180 degrees). Then turn the fruit into a smoothie, eliminating the peel and seeds.
  2. Beat the cooled apple puree with a mixer until fluffy at an average speed of the corollas for about 10 minutes, simultaneously adding half the prescription amount of sugar.
  3. Beat the chicken egg protein separately with the remaining sugar until stable peaks. Next, combine both masses and beat for another 10 minutes so that it stops draining from the spoon.
  4. Set aside 1/5 of the total amount of the workpiece in a separate bowl, and distribute the remaining 2 cm with a layer on a baking sheet or mold and dry in an open oven until the cake stops sticking to your hands.
  5. Free the cooled pastilles cake from baking paper, which was covered with a baking sheet, and cut into four identical pieces. Fold them in a pile, smearing previously laid apple mass. Top and sides also cover all with whipped applesauce.
  6. After this, the pastille is again returned to the oven for 1.5-2 hours. Then it is cooled in a natural way, and served, cut into portioned pieces.

With powdered sugar

The traditional way to store homemade pastille is in a plastic bag rolled up. But if you prepare a pastille from apples and nuts, then cut into small cubes and roll them in icing sugar, then the treat will turn into useful homemade sweets that should be stored in a dry place in a tightly closed container.

For apple-nut candy in powdered sugar you will need:

  • 1000 g of apples;
  • 200 g of any nuts;
  • 200 g of sugar;
  • 20 ml of lemon juice;
  • 8 g of vanilla sugar;
  • icing sugar for boning.

Working process:

  1. Peel apples and seeds, sprinkle with lemon juice and bake in the oven until soft. Then turn baked fruits into a homogeneous homogeneous puree.
  2. Slightly fry the nuts in a dry frying pan, remove the husks and chop to a crumb with a small amount of pieces.
  3. Combine applesauce, chopped nuts, both types of sugar together. Stir the mass and distribute on a baking sheet with a layer of 5-10 mm.
  4. Heat the oven to 150 degrees, then turn off the heat, put the baking sheet with pastille and dry for about 2 hours with the door ajar. Repeat if necessary.
  5. Cut the pastile into cubes, rhombuses or rectangles, roll in icing sugar.

How to cook outdoors

Knowing how to make apple marshmallow in an oven or an electric dryer, it will not be out of place to get acquainted with the technology of drying in the fresh air. Of course, this method can be used only on a hot summer day, when the sun is especially active. In a city apartment, a balcony or windowsill is suitable for these purposes.

What will be needed in the cooking process:

  • 1000-2000 g of apples;
  • 50-100 ml of water.

Stages of cooking:

  1. Wash the apples, cut off all the spoiled places, cut into small slices and simmer with a small amount of water until soft.
  2. As soon as the fruit pulp is dispersed under the influence of temperature, open the lid on the pots and allow sufficient moisture to evaporate.
  3. After that, rub the apples through a sieve, and put the resulting mashed potatoes in a baking sheet covered with baking paper, protect the pastille from insects from above, covering it with gauze. Dry pastille in the open air is necessary 4-5 days, hiding in the house at night.

Homemade Apple Marshmallow with Honey

Since apple-honey pastille will require a sufficient amount of honey (its ratio to applesauce is 1: 2), it is better to prepare such a dessert in small portions, drying in small molds, for example, for baking muffins.

Amount of ingredients used:

  • 500 ml of prepared applesauce;
  • 250 ml of liquid honey.

Cooking Technology:

  1. Bake washed and halved apples in the oven until cooked, then mashed with a blender and separate from the cake by passing through a sieve. Measure the cooled apple puree in the amount required by the recipe and beat with a mixer until splendor and increase in volume.
  2. Separately, beat the mixer with liquid honey into a lush mass. If at hand there is only sugar, then you just need to melt it a little in a steam bath.
  3. Combine both masses and beat well again. Next, spread the mixture on greased tin cupcake tins. Apple marshmallow dries with the addition of honey in the oven at 40-50 degrees. Then glue the finished layers in pairs with liquid honey and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

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