Baked Pear Dessert Recipe
Baked Pear Dessert Recipe
An alternative to fat-laden apple pie recipes, this decadent dessert is heart healthy, containing almost no sodium and just one gram of saturated fat.
Ingredients
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- 1/3 cup unsweetened apple cider or apple juice
- 2 Tbsp golden raisins
- 1 Tbsp chopped walnuts toasted
- 1/8 tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 tsp light brown sugar
- 1 pear, unpeeled, halved lengthwise and cored
Directions
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- Preheat oven to 250°. In a small bowl, combine 1 teaspoon cider, raisins, walnuts, cinnamon and brown sugar.
- On a small baking dish, arrange pear halves, cut sides up. Scoop raisin mixture evenly into pear halves. Pour remaining cider into baking dish. Cover with foil and bake for 45 minutes or until pear halves are soft. Spoon cider in dish over pear halves once or twice during baking.
- Discard excess cider. Serve warm.
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size
Amount Per Serving
- Calories
- 190
- % Daily Value*
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- Total Fat
- 9g
- 14%
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- Saturated Fat
- 1g
- 5%
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- Cholesterol
- 0
- 0%
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- Sodium
- 3mg
- 0%
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- Total Carbohydrate
- 27g
- 9%
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- Dietary Fiber
- 4g
- 16%
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- Sugars
-
- Protein
- 3g
- 6%