Harley Pasternak’s Baked Apples with Yogurt Recipe
These baked apples with yogurt from celebrity trainer and nutrition expert Harley Pasternak are perfect for fall and beyond.
Like a cozy sweater in a snack — these baked apples with yogurt from celeb trainer and nutrition expert Harley Pasternak feel special and fancy without the mountain of ingredients required for your typical sweet treat.
These baked apples require some prep ahead of time as they take two hours to prepare in the oven, but the results make it worth it. Pasternak says this healthy baked apples recipe tastes like Christmas, and although it takes longer to make than a typical snack, it still only requires four ingredients. A tool you’ll want to have handy? An apple corer. You’ll put the corer in the apple, twist it a couple times, then push it through the bottom to remove the seeds. Pasternak recommends choosing a glass, Pyrex, or casserole dish to bake the apples. Once the apples are arranged in the dish with water, a generous amount of cinnamon sprinkled inside and outside the apples gives it a delicious flavor, along with a boost of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory benefits.
Bake this in an oven set to 325 degrees for two hours. After the apples are done, mix more cinnamon into Greek yogurt. Harley suggests putting the cinnamon yogurt mixture into a Ziploc bag and snipping off a corner so you can pipe it inside each apple more precisely. Genius!
When you’re done, you’re left with a sweet treat that makes a perfect snack or dessert. This nutritionist-approved treat contains a mountain of fiber and antioxidants that are great for your gut and brain health. And to top it all off, it’s absolutely delicious.
“You have the creaminess of the Greek yogurt, you have the soft, juicy apple, the cinnamon pops through. It’s one of my favorite things to have for a snack,” says Pasternak.
Tip:
This sweet oven-baked apple treat is the perfect reward after a hard workout. We recommend pairing this recipe with one of Harley Pasternak’s Superhero Series workouts on Alo Moves. Try it free with a 14-day trial.
Harley Pasternak’s Baked Apples with Yogurt Recipe
Ingredients
6 apples
1 ½ cups water
Cinnamon
Plain Greek yogurt or skyr
Directions
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
Core your apples so that they are still left whole. Line them up in a baking dish.
Pour the water into the dish, creating a bath for the apples.
Generously sprinkle cinnamon inside the cores, as well as on top of the apples. It is okay if the cinnamon gets into the water.
Cover the dish with tin foil and bake in the oven for 2 hours at 325 degrees.
Once finished, combine cinnamon to taste with the yogurt and spoon or pipe the mixture into the core of an apple. Enjoy!
Recipe Courtesy of Harley Pasternak
Harley Pasternak is a celebrity fitness trainer, nutritionist, and best-selling author based in Los Angeles. He holds a master of science degree in exercise physiology and nutritional sciences from the University of Toronto and an honors degree in kinesiology from University of Western Ontario. He is also certified by The American College of Sports Medicine and The Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology, and served as an exercise and nutrition scientist for Canada’s Department of National Defense.
As a fitness and nutrition specialist, Pasternak boasts the largest celebrity client roster in the industry. He is also a New York Times Bestselling Author whose titles have attained global bestseller status, which has led to translation in 14 languages in over 25 countries around the globe. Pasternak believes that you don’t need to spend hours inside a gym to create a healthy lifestyle — it’s all about how you spend your time outside of it, from incorporating regular movement into your day to better sleep and stress management.
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