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Recipe: Almond Pears
Servings: 4
Preparation Time: 10 min.
Cooking Time: 20 min.
 
Ingredients:
  • 4 ripefirm pear, peeled, halved and cored
  • 12 Amaretto or almond cookie, finely crushed
  • 1/2 cup almonds, finely ground
  • 2 Tbs. sugar
  • 2 Tbs. unsalted butter
  • aluminum foil
  • 1 cup vanilla lowfat yogurt
This Recipe is considered:
Low Sodium
Cooking Directions:
Preheat oven to 400° F. Cut a thin slice from rounded side of pears to keep pears from tipping. Combine cookies, almonds, sugar, and butter in a bowl. Using a wooden spoon, stir and form a paste. Divide almond mixture evenly and spoon into pear halves. Arrange pears with almond side up in a baking dish with about 1/3 cup water in bottom of baking dish. Cover with foil and bake 20 minutes or until pears are tender. Serve with yogurt.
 
Per Serving: calories 435, fat 25.2g, calories from fat 52%, protein 10.0g, cholesterol 32.3mg, dietary fiber 7.3g

Nutrients Exchanges
Calories 435 Milk Exchanges 0.0
Protein 10.0g Vegetable Exchanges 0.0
Carbohydrates 47.8g Fruit Exchanges 0.9
Dietary Fiber 7.3g Bread Exchanges 0.0
Sugar 32.2g Other Carbohydrates/Sugar Exchanges 1.9
Fat Total 25.2g Lean Meat Exchanges 0.5
Saturated Fat 6.6g Very Lean Meat/Protein Exchanges 0.0
Mono-unsaturated Fat 13.0g Fat Exchanges 4.7
Poly-unsaturated Fat 5.6g
% Calories from Fat 52%    
Cholesterol 32.3mg
Sodium 116.8mg
Vitamins Minerals
Vitamin A 146.5IU Calcium 177.1mg
Thiamin (B1) 1.6mg Copper 1.0mg
Riboflavin (B2) 0.5mg Iron 1.8mg
Niacin (B3) 1.7mg Magnesium 90.3mg
Vitamin B6 0.8mg Manganese 1.7mg
Vitamin B12 0.4mcg Phosphorus 234.7mg
Vitamin C 5.7mg Potassium 481.0mg
Vitamin E 11.1IU Selenium 1.2mcg
Folate 32.9mcg Sodium 116.8mg
Pantothenic Acid 1.5mg Zinc 1.6mg