Healthy meal:Quick Baked Pears

Quick Baked Pears

 

Healthy meal:Quick Baked Pears

 

Prep time: 5 mins

Cook time: 6 mins

Total time: 11 mins

Ingredients

• 2 large Bosc pears


• 2 teaspoons sugar


• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon


• 1/4 cup dried cranberries or dried mixed fruit (such as Sun-Maid Fruit Bits)


• 1/4 cup low-fat granola


• 1/4 cup apple juice


• 1/2 cup vanilla low-fat frozen yogurt, divided into 4 small scoops

Instructions

1. Peel pears; cut in half lengthwise. Use a melon baller or grapefruit spoon to remove core and seeds, creating a hollow.


2. Place pear halves, with cut sides up, in a glass pie plate. Combine sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle evenly over pears.


3. Combine cranberries and granola; mound into hollows of the pear halves. Pour the apple juice in and around pear halves. Cover dish loosely with wax paper.


4. Cook in microwave on HIGH 6-8 minutes or until the pears are tender when pierced with a knife. Let stand in the dish 5 minutes. Use a large slotted spoon to transfer the pears to serving plates.


5. Drizzle juices from pie plate over pears and serve with frozen yogurt.

 

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Healthy meal:Quick Baked Pears