We have two apples trees on our Camano Island property. If you have apple trees, you'll know that in the fall you get more apples than you can deal with. You give some away (until the neighbors pull their curtains when they see you coming). You make apple sauce, apple crisp, apple cobbler, apple pies. It's a problem like the zucchini one - What do you do with the bounty?
Well here's an idea you may not have considered... apples as a vegetable side dish with dinner.
Apples as a Veggy
- Quarter, core and cut up into approximately 1" pieces enough apples to fill a 4 qt sauce pan half full
- Chop up a medium onion
- Mince 4 large garlic cloves
- In the sauce pan, sauté the onion and garlic in 2 Tbsp butter
- When the onion has softened, add the apples to the pan, and 2-3 Tbsp white wine to deglaze, and cover.
- Cook covered until the apples have softened, then uncover and cook just until the sauce has thickened.
- Serve hot
For variations on the basic recipe, try these:
- Add 1/2 tsp (or to taste) curry powder
- Add 1/2 tsp Garam Marsala and deglaze instead with 2-4 Tbsp Marsala wine or Sherry
- Add 1/2 tsp cumin and 1/2 tsp (or to taste) chili powder. Deglaze instead with 2-4 Tbsp red wine