Apple Flautas
This is the recipe I reach for when I want something quick, homemade, delicious, and impressive. They require so little effort and can be made almost as quickly as they disappear! I especially like that you can make these little marvels with Splenda instead of sugar and substitute it whenever I make them for myself!
Tender apples sauteed in butter with cinnamon and sugar then spooned into crispy cinnamon sugar tortillas create the perfect hand held treat. My husband’s first word after taking a bite tonight was “Oh, WOW.”
Ingredients are: Sugar, flour tortillas, a few apples, butter or margarine, cinnamon, and a dash of lemon juice.
My recipe calls for 6 inch flour tortillas but in this tutorial I used ten inch.
Place sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl or cup.
Stir until blended
Peel and slice apples kind of thin.
Melt butter or margarine in skillet.
Brush butter on one side of tortilla
Sprinkle with 1/2 tsp of cinnamon sugar. Turn over and repeat with butter and cinnamon sugar on other side. Do this to all of the tortillas.
Place tortillas on cookie sheet in oven preheated to 325 degrees until just warm and pliable.
Put apple slices in skillet with remaining butter.
Now my recipe says to add a tablespoon of sugar to this but I looked at all that good cinnamon sugar I had left and just poured all of that in instead. I don’t know why I haven’t done it like this before!
Stir all that good stuff up. You want to cook these on medium low until they are tender but not mushy.
While your apples are cooking, remove your warm tortillas from the oven. Roll each of them up into a tube.
Place them on the cookie sheet tube side down and return to the oven for about ten minutes, until they are browned and crispy.
Once your apples are tender, add a teaspoon of lemon juice and stir that up.
After about ten minutes in the oven, your tortillas will look like this. Take them out of the oven.
with a large spoon, carefully open the tube, just do one of these at a time.
Spoon apple mixture into each one and then fold it back closed again, placing it seam side down onto a plate or platter.
EAT!!!
EAT ‘EM QUICK BEFORE SOMEONE FINDS WHERE THEY ARE AT AND STEALS ‘EM!
Ingredients
- 3 T sugar
- 3 T butter or margarine
- 3 to 4 apples, peeled and sliced thin
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 6 - 6inch flour tortillas
- 1 tsp lemon juice
Instructions
- Heat oven to 325. Mix 2 tablespoons of sugar with cinnamon and set aside. Melt butter in skillet. Brush butter on each side of tortilla, sprinkle each side with 1/2 tsp cinnamon/sugar mixture. Place tortillas on ungreased baking sheet and put in oven for a few minutes until just warm and pliable. Remove from oven and roll in tortillas loosely to make tubes, placing them seam side down on the baking sheet and returning to oven for about ten minutes, until browned and crispy.
- Meanwhile, saute apples in remaining butter in skillet over high heat with 1 T sugar, until browned and tender (or just dump the rest of your cinnamon sugar mixture in there with them!). Add in lemon juice. Remove browned tortilla tubes from oven and spoon apple mixture into them. Sit down and eat yours while you listen to moans of happiness from your guests.
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Posted by Christy Jordan
on Sep 4 2008. Filed under Dessert.
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We LOVE apples here, so these recipes are most appreciated~!
These flautas look so good! You really have me getting quite impatient for apple season!
Apple Flautas are fun and Yummy!!
Angie: thank you!! I adore them, too! I just don’t like the red ones from the grocery store, they don’t have any flavor! My mom has a neighbor with a huge apple tree and they have been sending me apples that are SOOOO GOOD!! Crisp with just a teeny bit of tart, OMG I could live on them!!
Stephanie: Hehe!! I may have burned my poor family out on apples by the time apple season rolls around this year! I’m making another apple recipe today!
Holly: Thank you!! I wish I could give these out to all of you. We need that kind of technology!
Im not big on apples. but this looks kinda yummy.. I bet the kids would like them. Thanks!
WOW Christy those look great. I know everyone in my house will love these. Quit making all these great things I cant keep up Christy. Ü
P.S. I wish i was part of your family LOL i wouldnt get tired of all these apple dishes.
Apple week sure has been yummy!!!
these really look good. I have lived in France so long that I forgot about them. Maybe I’ll introduce my kids to them – the US doesn’t just have McDonalds after all.
I made these and posted about them on my blog..they are so yummy..thanks for the recipe!
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WoW…I thought I had looked at all your recipes, but you proved me wrong! I have not see this one! This looks great. I’m gonna have to do this one!
God Bless,
~hugs~
Vickie
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These look really good.
Look at you getting all fancy with the plating and presentation! (Chef in me smiles really big)
These sound so good and comforting…mmmm….
Got everything but the apples. Gotta get some tomorrow! So happy that you remind us of recipes we have forgotten about!
I will definitely be trying these soon. Sounds like a good treat for the whole family. We have 2 teenage grandsons living with us and I know they would eat these faster than I could make them. Thank you, again!
These sound great … bet you could do these with other fruit too peaches come to mind
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Could you sub apple pie filling for the fresh apples?
Perfect, cozy fall dessert!
Couldn’t you fill you tortillashells with apple mixtureand bake them or would they be to moist?
Can this be made in advance and heated at a gathering later?