Let’s start with the savoury ones

Savoury apple recipes

1.Grated into coleslaw

2. Apple slices spread with peanut butter as a snack

3. Added to vegetable soup

4. Roasted along with sweet potatoes and parsnips

5. Cooked and mashed with potatoes

6. Apple jelly

7. Bramley apples can be used to make a tomato and apple soup

8. Bramley apple added to a chicken casserole

9. Sliced and fried served with sausages

10. Fried and served with bacon (or fried, sliced, paprika sprinkled aubergine – vegan alternative to bacon)

11. Apple cider vinegar

And now the sweet apple recipes:

1.Apple sponge

2. Apple semolina pudding (can use leftover whey instead of milk if you have some)

3. Stewed

4. Baked

5. Crumble

6. Chocolate / toffee apples

7. Apple cooked with sugar and cinnamon, layered with breadcrumbs fried in a bit of vegetable spread or butter and then chocolate chips stirred into them at the end. Served cold with cream. 

8. Slice the apples thinly and put them in a pan with a little butter some sugar, cinnamon and a squeeze of lemon cook gently until golden brown and serve warm with yoghurt or creme fraiche.

9. Apple butter/ compote

10. Apple and cinnamon cake

11. Apple pie

If you have too many apples to use up all at once, keep them in the fridge because they will last longer than if you leave them out. You could also freeze them – one group member says she removes the core, slices them into chunks and freezes without cooking them for use in puddings. A lovely suggestion also was to make something for a neighbour you haven’t yet befriended. Finally if all else fails put them in the compost or leave them out for the birds.

Join the Facebook group here: The Eco Thrifty Kitchen Club. You can also look back at last weeks post on 12 wonderful ways to use up ground almonds!

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Storing a glut of apples

In the fridge

I usually keep apples in the fruit drawer of my fridge (separate from the vegetables). They last much longer there than they will in a fruit bowl out on the counter.

Freeze

To keep them long term, another option is to freeze them. If you are going to freeze them to use in future recipes, I would recommend peeling, slicing and blanching first. To blanche apple slices put them in boiling water for a minute. Leave until completely cool before freezing. If you want to keep your slices of apple separate, spread them out on a tray in a freezer. Then put them into a container once frozen.

Don’t chuck out the apple scraps. You can use them to make apple cider vinegar or homemade apple scrap tea (just pop the peels/ deseeded cores in hot water)!

Wrapped up in newspaper

I haven’t tested this out, but I have read that a glut of apples can be stored, wrapped individually in newspaper. They need to be kept somewhere cold and not too dry. Be careful of leaving them unattended in a shed or garage though, as they might attract rodents. You should check on them regularly to make sure that they aren’t going off (and that they aren’t becoming mouse food).

Apple recipes ideas

Now that you have all these apples, you want to do something with them!

Three of my favourite ways to use up apples include:

• Making apple crumble
• Adding a peeled and diced apple to a homemade soup to sweeten it
• Sliced apple and banana drizzled with nut butter and sprinkled over with cinammon and sunflower seeds.

For some more ideas to use them up, check out these 22 apple recipes ideas.

Give away some of your glut of apples

If you have so many apples that you won’t be able to use them all, give them away. You can give them to friends and family or via an app like Olio. Another option is to leave them outside the front of your home in bags with a sign saying please take. I found some apples left like this once and it made my day!

A variation on that theme – you could make the apples into things like jams, chutneys or cake and then give some of them away as a gift. They could make great end of year teacher gifts or festive presents.

If you are still stuck for ideas, or want to share how you have used your apples up, come and join the Eco Thrifty Kitchen Club. It’s a Facebook group set up with the aim to help people reduce food and kitchen waste!

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