Healthy Poached Pears Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 L dark grape juice
- 6 pears, peeled, cored and quartered
Method
- Pour juice into a saucepan and bring to the boil.
- Lower the heat, add pears and simmer for 10–15 minutes or until just tender. Turn pears over to cover in juice during cooking.
- Remove from the heat and allow to cool in the syrup. Serve warm or cold
Microwave Instructions
Arrange pears in a deep microwave dish, add juice and microwave on HIGH (100%) for 5 minutes.
Turn pears and microwave for 3–5 minutes or until tender. Allow to cool and serve.
Recipe from Healthy Food Fast © State of Western Australia, 2012. Reproduced with permission.
Variation:
Try substituting apple juice for grape juice and adding 1/4 cup caster sugar.
Serving Suggestion:
Pour over syrup and serve with a dollop of low-fat natural yoghurt or reduced-fat vanilla ice cream.
Nutrition Information
| per serving | per 100g | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 588 kJ | 228 kJ |
| 141 Cal | 54 Cal | |
| Protein | 0.6 g | 0.2 g |
| Fat, total | 0 g | 0 g |
| — saturated | 0 g | 0 g |
| Carbohydrate | 34.1 g | 13.2 g |
| — sugars | 31.4 g | 12.2 g |
| Sodium | 24.4 mg | 9.5 mg |
| Fibre | 3 g | 1.2 g |
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