15 Best Green Apples Recipes, You Need to Try
If you are looking for green apples recipes, then you need to look no further. All 15 of these easy recipes use green apples. But you can really use any apple in them. I prefer a combination of apples to get the perfect flavor.
Grab a recipe below, your green apples, and a few kitchen tools and get started making a great fall apple recipe your family will love.
Before we get to the best apple recipes, there are a few kitchen tools that will make preparing these recipes a little easier.
Kitchen Tools for the Green Apples Recipes
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A mandolin works great for apples. You can make thin slices or thick slices by adjusting the setting. And you can slice a lot of apples quickly. I highly recommend one.
Paring knives are so useful for so many tasks and can make slicing apples quick and easy. If you don’t have a mandolin, then this will work. The chef knife is a little bigger and great for dicing apples.
For most of the apple recipes, you’ll want to peel the apples. A vegetable peeler is the perfect tool for the job. It takes just the skin and leaves the apple. Be sure to cut the top of the apples off first to make it easier to get the peeling started.
A melon baller works great to remove the core with the seeds, without removing a lot of the apple. I scoop the stem portion from the top of the apple. Then I scoop the blossom end of the apple. Cut the apple in half and scoop the seeds out. Your apple is ready to slice.
A large bowl for mixing batters and cakes. A small bowl for mixing the crisp topping.
Pastry Cutter or Your Fingers
A pastry cutter is nice for cutting in butter into flour. But my favorite way is to use my hands with a pinch and drop method. Pick up the butter or fat out of the flour, pinch and then drop it. Do this repeatedly until the fat is cut into the dough.
Cast Iron Skillet or Regular Skillet
We need this for cooking the cinnamon apples. A cast-iron skillet is nice, but any skillet will do.
You’ll need a pie dish for making the pie, loaf pan for making the apple bread, square and rectangular baking pan for the cakes and crisps.
15 of the Best Green Apples Recipes
Below, I’ve included a few breakfast recipes and a few dessert recipes. But many of them could be a breakfast or a dessert, depending on how you serve them. Any of them would be a great addition to your meal plans. Let’s start with the brunch or breakfast recipes first.
Apple Brunch Recipes
If you are looking for a few yummy breakfast or brunch recipes with apples, this list is for you. If you have tart green apples or a combination of apples you are waiting to use in a recipe, I’m sure you’ll love any of these recipes.
There are even a couple that I’d consider healthy breakfasts, like the caramel apple oatmeal or the apple cinnamon bread. And other that are more decadent like the apple fritter, which are like chopped apple dumplings but deep fried.
1.Apple Fritters
Apple fritters are really easy to make. If you can measure and stir, you can make these fritters. Just mix flour with baking powder. Stir in the egg and milk. Then I use my deep fryer to make it easier to keep the oil at the right temperature. But you can also use a pan with oil on the stovetop over medium heat too.
Serve them with a sprinkle of powder sugar and a drizzle of maple syrup, to make them perfect.
2. Apple Crumble Bars
These apple crumble bars are perfect for using green apples in. The tartness of the granny smiths pairs really well with the sweet brown sugar crumble topping.
It has layers and layers of thin apple slices sandwiched between and shortbread crust and the crumble topping you can eat it for breakfast. Or you can add a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of a warm square and eat it as a dessert. Either way, these are delicious.
3. Apple Cinnamon Bread
This is an easy, quick bread recipe that can be made with olive oil instead of butter. So it’s a vegetarian recipes for those who eat vegetarian. It’s a simple recipe where you take the dry ingredients, mix with the apples and wet ingredients. Then sprinkle the top with cinnamon sugar and nuts then bake.
4. Apple Mini Muffins
These cute little apple muffins have a nice brown sugar and nut topping. You can use a tart green apple or a sweet apple. Both will work well in this recipe. In this recipe, I show you how to shred an apple without having to core it too.
5. Apple Pie Pancakes
Have apple pie for breakfast, well at least the flavor of apple pie in a pancake. These can be made egg free and dairy free so they are vegan. Give this a try on a fall weekend morning.
6. Caramel Apple Oatmeal
This is one of the healthy recipes with apples. And it’s a comfort food breakfast too. If you want to keep it super healthy, skip the homemade caramel sauce, but it’s so good and can be made ahead of time too.
7. Apple Coffee Cake
This coffee cake has nice pieces of diced apple in the cake portion. Then it’s topped with a brown sugar and cinnamon topping that melts into the top of the cake. Making for a little crunch before you dive into the soft cake portion. It’s easy to make from scratch, only taking about 10 minutes to mix and then bake.
Apple Dessert Recipes
Crisp apples are plentiful in the store in the fall and any type of apples will work in the recipes below. But when you mix sugar or brown sugar and a tart apple, the flavor combination is great.
I like to have a crisp apple when making a baked recipe. They hold up better than softer apples. The apple varieties that work best are granny smiths, honey crisp, pink lady, gala, and northern spy.
8. Apple Pie
Apple pie is a classic dessert everyone needs to know how to make. It’s great when made with granny smiths, but I like a combination of apples for it best. I mix apples like pink lady, granny smiths and honey crisp to make a great apple pie.
9. Apple Crumble Cake
This delicate cake has pieces of apple mixed in and it’s topped with a crumble topping. So no frosting needed just a dollop of whipped topping. It’s a quick cake recipe to make and perfect for an easy fall dessert.
10. Apple Crisp Recipe
This is my grandma’s recipe, and it’s good food. But then again, I loved just about anything my grandma would make. This is one of the easiest apple desserts on the list.
You take sliced apples and top it with a delicious crumble topping and bake. But be sure to soften the butter but don’t melt butter for this recipe. You want it soft but not melted to make the topping perfect.
11. Baked Apples
This recipe for baked apples is unique. It is “baked” in the microwave, making for an easy recipe that is quick to make. The filling is a mixture of cinnamon, sugar, and butter that melts into a delicious sauce to enjoy with the cooked apple.
12. Fresh Apple Cookies
A simple cookie recipe that uses fresh apples in a yummy brown sugar dough. These are so good, these are a must try fall recipe.
13. Apple Brown Betty
This is a beginner’s apple recipe. If you don’t bake or are a beginner baker, this is the perfect recipe for you. The nice thing about this recipe is it starts with bread. So no flour, no batter, just cut, mix, and bake. But it’s so good, your family will love it.
Apple Sauce Recipes
Apples can be cooked into a delicious sauce or chunky sauce. Then you can use the sauce on ice cream or more.
14. Cinnamon Apples
These are apples in a cinnamon and brown sugar sauce, they are like southern fried apples. This sauce is great over ice cream.
You can also drizzle it over homemade biscuits, add a dollop of whipped topping for a delicious and easy dessert. Or it can be just a great apple side dish too.
15. Homemade Applesauce
This is our go to recipe for homemade applesauce. If you like tart applesauce, you can use granny smith apples or sweet apples for a sweeter sauce. I like to use a combination of both. It’s super easy to make and can be made without sugar too. If you’ve never made applesauce before, you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to make.
Those are 15 of the best green apple recipes for fall. I’d love to know which one you’ll be trying first. Leave me a comment below and let me know.