APRICOT MUFFINS
These are moist and chewy. I sometimes add 1/2 cup of dates as well as the apricots. A family favorite!
Provided by Aunt Mamie
Categories Bread Quick Bread Recipes Muffin Recipes
Time 30m
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a 12 cup muffin pan, or line with paper muffin cups. Place apricots into a small bowl, and pour the boiling water over them. Let stand for 5 minutes.
- In a medium bowl stir together the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, whisk together the melted butter, oil, buttermilk and egg. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, and stir until just blended. It is okay for the batter to have some lumps. Drain water from apricots, and mix them into the batter. Spoon into the prepared muffin cups.
- Bake for 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the top springs back when lightly pressed. Cool in the pan over a wire rack.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 238.5 calories, Carbohydrate 36.2 g, Cholesterol 26.5 mg, Fat 9.2 g, Fiber 1.4 g, Protein 3.8 g, SaturatedFat 3.4 g, Sodium 258 mg, Sugar 19.3 g
APRICOT NUT BREAD
If you like apricots--you'll love this one.
Provided by JJOHN32
Categories 100+ Breakfast and Brunch Recipes Breakfast Bread Recipes
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Drain apricots, and save syrup. Puree apricots in a food processor, adding syrup if necessary to make 1 cup.
- Whisk together the flour, baking powder, soda, and salt.
- In a large bowl, cream together shortening and sugar. Add eggs one at a time, and beat fill fluffy. Add flour mixture alternately with apricot puree to the creamed mixture. Stir in nuts. Spread batter into a greased and floured 9 x 5 loaf pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 50 minutes. Remove from pan, and cool on a rack.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 222 calories, Carbohydrate 30.6 g, Cholesterol 31 mg, Fat 9.9 g, Fiber 1.4 g, Protein 3.9 g, SaturatedFat 2 g, Sodium 203.5 mg, Sugar 15.5 g
APRICOT PORK TENDERLOIN
The only way to cook tenderloin. The apricot preserves are a perfect marriage with pork. Sweet without being too sweet! A family favorite!
Provided by Hope
Categories Meat and Poultry Recipes Pork Pork Tenderloin Recipes
Time 55m
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Spread butter all over the pork tenderloin. Season with salt, pepper, and thyme. Combine garlic powder, apricot preserves, honey, and sherry in a separate bowl.
- Roast the pork in the preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes. Remove the pork from the oven and brush with the apricot sauce. Return the pork to the oven. Continue roasting, basting occasionally with the remaining sauce, until the pork is no longer pink in the center, about 15 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read 145 degrees F (63 degrees C).
Nutrition Facts : Calories 439.7 calories, Carbohydrate 62.9 g, Cholesterol 85.7 mg, Fat 11.4 g, Fiber 0.4 g, Protein 24.2 g, SaturatedFat 6.1 g, Sodium 200 mg, Sugar 42.9 g
APRICOT PIE RECIPE
Apricots are one of the few fruits that taste so much better when you cook them. There's also something magical about pairing them with cinnamon and a squeeze of lemon juice. This pie will make your taste buds dance. I love that this pie wasn't overly sweet, which only means that a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream on the side was less guilty. This flaky cream cheese pastry dough is the best. It doesn't come close to any store-bought crust. Best of all there is no shortening, lard or any other ingredients that would make you cringe. Love it up folks. :)
Provided by Natasha of NatashasKitchen.com
Categories Medium
Time 2h55m
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Once pie crust has cooled in the fridge at least 1 hour, and you are ready to use it, remove dough from the refrigerator and on a large sheet of parchment paper, roll it out into a 13-inch circle, sprinkling lightly with flour to keep the dough from sticking to your rolling pin.
- Transfer the dough to a 9-inch pie plate (the parchment paper makes it easy to transfer the dough; just put the rolled dough over the pie plate and peel off the paper backing.
- Take the next piece of dough out of the fridge and re-using the parchment paper, roll it into a second 12-inch circle. Use a pizza cutter to slice the second rolled dough into about 15 (3/4-inch thick) strips. Set aside until ready to use.
- Stir together the dry ingredients in a small bowl: 1/4 cup sugar, 2 Tbsp flour, 1 tsp cinnamon and 1/8 tsp salt.
- Pit apricots and slice into 1/2″ thick slices and place them in a large mixing bowl. Drizzle with 1 Tbsp lemon juice and gently stir. Sprinkle the sugar/flour/cinnamon mixture over the sliced apricots and toss gently to combine.
- Transfer prepared apricot filling into the bottom of your pie pan which should be lined with pastry dough.
- Use the strips of pastry dough to create a lattice top and crimp the edges. (See notes for full photo tutorial on how to make a lattice pie topping). I've made it easy for ya!
- Crimp together the edges or use the leftover lattice topping scraps to make a fancy woven border; Just make sure to push the border down onto the pie or it will disconnect from the pie and pieces of it will fall to the bottom of the oven and turn black (not that I'm speaking from experience ;)).
- Beat together 1 egg with 1 Tbsp cold water. Brush top and edges of pie generously with egg wash.
- Place pie on the center rack and bake at 425 ˚F for 20 minutes then place cookie sheet lined with foil under the pie to catch any drips then reduce oven to 375˚F and bake an additional 30 min until your filling is bubbling. Loosely Cover the top of the pie with foil if it is starting to brown too quickly. Here's the tough part: let the pie cool down ideally at least 2 hours so the filling thickens. If you cut it early, the pie will be too juicy and will fall apart on your plate if eaten right away. It will still taste amazing, but it firms up as it stands.
EASY APRICOT CAKE RECIPE
Apricot Cake is so easy to make from scratch! This simple but so flavorful cake is topped with fresh apricots and is perfect for summer entertaining.
Provided by Julia Foerster
Categories Baking
Time 1h20m
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C) and grease the bottom and sides of a 9-inch springform pan with baking spray or butter. Set aside.
- Using a food processor, blender, or immersion blender puree half of the apricots with the lemon juice and set aside.
- Quarter remaining apricots and set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment cream butter and sugar together at medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 4-5 minutes.
- Add eggs, one at a time. Then add vanilla extract and beat until combined.
- In a small bowl combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Add to the mixture and beat until just combined.
- Add pureed apricots to the batter and beat until just combined.
- Transfer batter to the prepared springform pan. Distribute the quartered apricots evenly on top of the batter and bake for 55-60 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean with only a few crumbs attached.
- Let cool then dust with powdered sugar.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 258 kcal, Carbohydrate 39 g, Protein 5 g, Fat 10 g, SaturatedFat 5 g, Cholesterol 75 mg, Sodium 139 mg, Fiber 2 g, Sugar 21 g, ServingSize 1 serving
HONEY APRICOT PORK CHOPS
These are absolutely divine!! So simple and so beautiful...this is definitely a trick up my mom-sleeve! They look like they require so much more effort than they really do. I love to serve them with roasted asparagus topped with a homemade lemon vinaigrette or some green beans.
Provided by Christie Biggers
Categories Main Dish Recipes Pork Pork Chop Recipes Pan Fried
Time 35m
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Pat the pork chops dry with paper towels, and sprinkle both sides with salt and black pepper. Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat, and brown the chops well on both sides, about 5 minutes per side.
- Stir in honey, apricots, and garlic; cover, and simmer until the pork is tender, about 8 minutes. An instant-read thermometer, inserted into the center of a chop, should read at least 145 degrees F (63 degrees C). Sprinkle with parsley, and serve chops topped with the apricots and pan juices.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 181.5 calories, Carbohydrate 13.3 g, Cholesterol 36 mg, Fat 7.8 g, Fiber 0.8 g, Protein 15 g, SaturatedFat 2 g, Sodium 122.1 mg, Sugar 11.8 g
APRICOT PUREE
Make and share this Apricot Puree recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Shandibear
Categories Dessert
Time 30m
Yield 1 Batch of frosting
Number Of Ingredients 3
Steps:
- Place the apricots in a large saucepan and add enough water to cover them.
- Cook over medium heat for about 20 minutes, or until apricots are very soft. Drain the apricots, reserving the cooking liquid. Set the pan aside for later use.
- Place the apricots in 2 batches in the bowl of your food processor fitted with the metal blade. Puree by pulsing on and off until the apricots are smooth. Add some of the reserved cooking liquid, if necessary.
- Scrape the puree back into the large saucepan and stir in the brown sugar and lemon juice. Cook over low heat, stirring continually, until the sugar is dissolved, about 5-10 minutes.
- Let cool, then store in an airtight container in the refrigerator, until needed.
- You can use this as is, for a filling, or if the flavor is too concentrated, add it to some buttercream. Then you will have an apricot buttercream filling.
- I torte my cakes into four cake layers and like to do three filling layers as follows:.
- Cake, filling, cake, buttercream flavored with filling, cake, filling and final cake layer. By doing this, you will have two layers of the apricot filling, one on the bottom layer, and one on the top layer and a middle layer of the buttercream flavored with the filling. The buttercream will take on a very pale peachy color.
- Just remember to pipe an icing dam around the layer before spreading the apricot filling.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 5034.2, Fat 8, SaturatedFat 0.3, Sodium 285.9, Carbohydrate 1308.9, Fiber 114.4, Sugar 1154.1, Protein 53.4
APRICOT PURéE
Categories Sauce Fruit Low Sodium Apricot Bon Appétit
Yield Makes about 1 1/2 cups
Number Of Ingredients 3
Steps:
- Stir all ingredients in heavy medium saucepan over medium heat until sugar dissolves and mixture simmers. Cover and cook until apricots soften, about 6 minutes; cool. Transfer mixture to processor and puree until almost smooth (some apricot bits will remain). Refrigerate. (Can be prepared 1 week ahead.)
Tips for Making the Best Apricot Puree
- Choose ripe, flavorful apricots. The better the apricots, the better the puree will be. Look for apricots that are plump and have a deep orange color.
- Wash the apricots thoroughly. This will remove any dirt or debris from the fruit.
- Pit the apricots. You can use a paring knife or an apricot pitter to remove the pits.
- Puree the apricots in a blender or food processor. Add a little bit of water or apricot juice to help the apricots blend more easily.
- Strain the puree through a fine-mesh sieve. This will remove any solids from the puree, resulting in a smooth, velvety texture.
- Use the apricot puree immediately or store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. You can also freeze the puree for up to 3 months.
Conclusion
Apricot puree is a versatile ingredient that can be used in a variety of recipes, from sweet to savory. It is a great way to add flavor and nutrition to your meals. Whether you use it in pies, tarts, smoothies, or sauces, apricot puree is sure to please. So next time you have some ripe apricots on hand, be sure to make a batch of apricot puree. You'll be glad you did!
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