Children usually like to eat snacks, but the ones bought are not healthy. Make some snacks like this at home, which is clean, hygienic and delicious. Apple is known as "wisdom fruit" and "memory fruit". People have long discovered that eating more apples can improve memory and intelligence. Apples are not only rich in sugar, vitamins and minerals and other nutrients necessary for the brain, but more importantly, they are rich in zinc. Let’s make a delicious and nutritious snack using apples.
1. Carrot apples
1. Wash the apples, peel them, cut them into small pieces and set aside.
2. Crack the eggs into a bowl, add starch and stir evenly to make a starch paste.
3. Put the cut apples into the starch paste and coat them evenly with a layer of starch.
4. Pour oil into the pot, and the oil temperature will be 60% hot. Add the apples coated in starch, fry until golden brown, remove and drain.
5. Pour an appropriate amount of oil into the pot, pour in white sugar, the ratio of white sugar to water is 2:1, simmer over low heat and stir-fry until the sugar turns white and turns into light yellow. fire.
6. Pour in the fried apples while they are hot, evenly coat the apples with syrup and serve on a plate.
2. Apple Pie
1. Dissolve the salt in water. Take the butter out of the refrigerator without reheating it, cut it into cubes with a side length of about 2.5cm, and put it into the flour so that the surface is covered with flour.
2. Add salt water, mix well and form into a ball. Place it in the refrigerator to relax for more than 1 hour.
3. Take out the refrigerated dough, roll it into a rectangular shape, fold it from 1/4 on each side to the middle, and then fold it in half to complete a 4-fold fold. Pay attention to keeping the pie crust at a low temperature. When rolling and folding, you can use a very small amount of thin dough, but not too much, otherwise it will affect the taste of the finished product.
4. Do this 3 more times, and finally complete 4 times of 40% fold. After folding the dough twice, put the dough in the refrigerator for more than 30 minutes before operating.
5. Peel and core the apples and cut into small cubes. Put diced apples, fine sugar and lemon juice into a pot and simmer. There will be more juice at first. Slowly simmer until the water thickens and dries up, and the apples become golden and translucent. Then turn off the heat, add cinnamon powder and mix well. If you don’t like cinnamon powder, you can leave it out.
6. Note: When the water content becomes less and less, pay attention to stirring to avoid burning.
7. Take out the refrigerated pie dough, roll it out to 2mm thick, then cut it into 16 pieces that are slightly larger than the 4-inch pie plate, and put it in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
8. Take out the pie crusts, place them on heart-shaped pie plates, and press to make the pie crusts and pie plates tightly combined.
9. Spread the sponge cake crumbs on the pie crust, and then put the apple filling.
10. Cover the apple filling with another layer of pie crust, pinch the edge with the lower pie crust, press the edge of the mold with your hands, and cut off the excess dough.
11. Apply egg wash to the edge of the pie crust to make it adhere well. Use a small mold to cut a small leaf shape from the remaining pie crust and place it on top of the apple pie for decoration.
12. Brush the surface of the pie crust with egg wash, place it in an oven preheated to 200°C, use upper and lower heat on the middle and lower layers, and bake for about 25 minutes.