Sautéed Apple Power Bowl Recipe
I met my husband’s grandmother, who is now 103 years old and going strong, about 30 years ago. She had a habit of drinking only hot water all day. No lemon or lime or juice added. Just plain hot water. I don’t know what possessed me to follow her lead, but I did and I never looked back. I drink warm or hot water every morning to start my day and throughout the day, if possible. I absolutely love it. When a waiter at a restaurant asks me what I’d like to drink, I always say ” a mug of hot water, please. No additional glass of water is necessary.”
For whatever reason, my digestion is just happier avoiding anything cold, except when the weather is quite hot. During the winter, I even cook my fruit, which many of you saw on my Instagram stories over the holidays. When fruit is cooked, I think it tastes sweeter. I love the soft texture and how comforting it feels, especially when the weather is hovering close to zero as it was last week in Utah. Yikes!
One of my favorite winter breakfasts is a big bowl of warm porridge (usually oatmeal) topped off with either sauteed vegetables or cooked apples or bananas. Sometimes I skip the oatmeal and make a bowl of cooked apple chunks and top that with all sorts of protein and fat like almond butter, hemp seeds and coconut flakes. It’s incredibly satisfying and keeps me full until lunch. This recipe is from the breakfast section of my first cookbook, Kitchen Matters. I say, first cookbook because I am getting ready to shoot my second cookbook very soon! I am so excited that I am doing another book. This one will be released in early Spring 2020. I poured so much heart and into Kitchen Matters and nothing makes me happier than seeing your posts of my recipes. Thank you so much for sharing those. I haven’t asked in a while, but if you never wrote a review of my book on Amazon and you have something nice to say ;), I would appreciate that so much!
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Stay warm and healthy! xx
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- 2 teaspoons unrefined virgin coconut oil or vegan butter like Miyoko's Kitchen
- 2 apples, any variety, unpeeled, cored and chopped into 1-inch pieces
- ½ cup unsweetened apple juice or water
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Pinch of sea salt
- Add some protein: a drizzle of nut butter or a dollop of Greek yogurt
- Add something crunchy: chopped nuts, seeds, toasted coconut, pomegranate seeds, granola
- Warm coconut oil in 9” or 10” skillet over medium heat. Add apple chunks to the skillet and sauté until lightly golden brown on all sides.
- Add juice, cinnamon, and a pinch of salt and raise the heat so that the juice simmers, stirring the apples occasionally. Cook until the juice is almost all evaporated, about 4 to 5 minutes. Apples should be tender, but not falling apart.
- Serve with suggested protein and crunchy add-in’s. My favorite is a bowl of warm apple chunks with a drizzle of almond butter, pomegranate seeds, hemp seeds and toasted coconut flakes.
10 Comments
This is delicious!!
Glad you enjoyed it. SO perfect for a fall or winter morning.
Any chance that you can include the nutritional information?
This is one of those recipes where it is difficult to calculate the nutritional information, because there are so many ways to make it. A medium apple has 95 calories, 25 grams of carbohydrates, 4 grams of fiber, and 19 grams of sugar (natural, of course). 1 teaspoon of coconut oil adds 4.5 grams of fat and 39 calories. Then it depends if you use apple juice or water and it depends on how you top it (nut butter, coconut, hemp seeds, etc.)
What about baking the apples instead of sautéing?
You can definitely do that, but it will take much longer and I don’t know how long it would take because that would depend on how you cut them and what temp you bake them at. I also wouldn’t use that much liquid if you were going to bake them. I designed this recipe to be for a quick weekday morning breakfast – hence the stovetop.
My daughter Madeline absolutely loves this bowl. She has it at least once a week; it is divine.
Oooh, I love hearing that!
As the saying goes…”Great minds think alike.” I made this this morning! We went back to school today so it was perfect. It’s one of my favorite things to make and eat. I made the apples over break and we had them on our waffles one morning. Delicious!
Perfect way to start of the day (or year!) xo