Apple pie: a special recipe using stale bread

A recipe for using up leftover stale bread and starting your day in a healthy and wholesome way, enjoying a delicious homemade dessert.

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  • Preparation time: 25 30-minute
  • Cooking time: 50 minutes
  • difficulty: low

How to make apple pie with stale bread

Double well-being and double fight against waste: apples and leftover bread, together, become a fantastic dessert for any time of day. apple pie It's a classic dessert, perfect for both a snack and a breakfast. BreakfastNot to mention that apples are rich in substances that are important for the health and well-being of the body: they contain vitamins, fibre, mineral salts and numerous antioxidant substances. Furthermore, it is a truly non-wasteful dessert: you know that you can prepare a delicious one apple pie Even with leftover stale bread at home? Today, thanks to the help of our friends at Mistofrigo, we offer you this version:recycle" and, at the same time, healthy and tasty. Before we dive into the recipe, here's some useful information for our health:

  • Starting the day by eating healthily is the first step to a healthy diet;
  • According to the guidelines, a proper breakfast should provide around 20 percent of the total calories needed for good health;
  • Taking as a reference a total daily caloric requirement of 2000 kcal, a healthy adult needs to have a breakfast of around 400 calories;
  • A balanced breakfast includes the right amount of fats, carbohydrates, and proteins.

The reference breakfast in accordance with the healthy model of the Mediterranean diet is made up of: milk or yogurt, 50g of bread with a thin layer of jam or 3-4 dry biscuits, a portion of fruit, and tea or coffee. You can get the same benefits of a healthy breakfast by eating a homemade apple pie: each slice has the same nutritional values ​​as 4 apples. cookies. But can you imagine the satisfaction of starting the day with a homemade dessert? Furthermore, this apple pie doesn't require the use of eggsSimple preparations come in handy when you're missing a few ingredients at home. Let's see, step by step, how to make this delicious apple pie with leftover stale bread:

Ingredients

  • 800 gr apples
  • 150 g of dry bread
  • 100 gr of brown sugar
  • 40 g butter
  • 1 tablespoon of milk
  • cinnamon

Preparation

  • Wash, peel, and slice the apples, then place them in a pan and add half the sugar and the cinnamon.
  • Cook the apples for about 10 minutes, with the lid on, and in the meantime grate the bread.
  • Place the butter and milk in a pan, heat without frying the butter and then add the breadcrumbs and the other half of the sugar.
  • Preheat the oven to 190°C and spread half of the bread mixture into a cake tin lined with baking paper.
  • Add the cooked apples and then spread the other half of the bread mixture.
  • Bake in the oven for about 15-20 minutes and your delicious homemade apple pie is ready, healthy and waste-free.

Apple pie recipe with leftover stale bread

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