Apples are rich of all vitamins, minerals and fibres. It decreases the blood cholesterol (LDL). The antioxidants in apple are very helpful to our health. Did you get bored eating apple daily? Here are some recipes with apple.

Apple jam

Ingredients

• Ripen apples,1kg
• Sugar, 1kg
• Citric acid, 2ml
• Food color, A little

Method

1. Peel off the apples and remove all the seeds
2. Cut it into small pieces
3. Add some water and boil for 5 minutes
4. Make it a paste using a spoon
5. Add sugar to this paste and boil it until it froths
6. Now add some food color to it
7. Test the jam whether it is ready or not by adding a spoon of jam into cool water, if it is ready it doesn’t mix in water
8. Switch the stove off
9. Add some citric acid to it and mix thoroughly
10. Keep it in an air tight container after cooling.

Apple Halwa (Halva)

Ingredients:

• Ripened apples, 2
• Sugar, ½ kg
• Milk, ½ liter
• Ghee, 50g
• Cardamom powder, food color, A little
• Raisins, 10

Method

1. Peel off the apple skins and remove all the seeds
2. Grate the apples
3. Remove the water in the apple by squeezing with a soft cotton cloth. Fry the grated apple in ghee for 3 minutes.
4. Add milk and food color and boil for 10 minutes in a low flame
5. Now mix sugar in it and cook it until the mixture becomes thick
6. Add cardamom powder and raisins before removing the vessel from the stove

Precautions while using apples:

1. While preparing sweets with apple add sugar at initial stage to retain apple’s color.
2. Keep other fruits distant from apples because apple releases ethylene which spoils other fruits and vegetables.
3. To ripen apples naturally keep them in a polythene bag and punch small holes in it. Keep it at room temperature. Observe them after 3 days that they are ripened and ready to eat.