Winter is apple season. Raw they are a real blessing for your health with lots of vitamins and pectin for example.
In winter I especially love to cook dishes with apples. They make me feel very much like outside freezing cold temperatures with lots of snow, inside the fireplace makes a warm atmosphere and the hot baked apples are served with their incomparable smell and taste…
It seems a little bit like I miss this winter atmosphere. But not really, it is also very nice to stay the first time of my life the so called winter season in a very warm country. Here in Dubai is now very pleasant weather, sunny, but not hot, and the apples taste good as well!

Try my favorite drink; serve it hot in winter or on the rocks in summer (like we do here in Dubai)

Apple Tea

Ingredients: (10 portions)
6 apples (royal gala or elstar), cut roughly with skin and kernels
1 organic lemon, cut into slices with the skin
2 slices ginger
5 l water
2 – 3 Table spoons Acacia honey

Methods:-

Let all ingredients simmer for min. 1 hour. Strain it.

Serve hot or on the rocks.

Chef’s Tip:
Add some plums or elderberries, if available, to have a nice color, or serve on the rocks with mint leaves.

It is also possible to use pears instead.