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Recipe: Almond Baked 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
  • 1/4 cup 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 486, fat 30.7g, calories from fat 57%, protein 10.1g, cholesterol 47.8mg, dietary fiber 7.3g

Nutrients Exchanges
Calories 486 Milk Exchanges 0.0
Protein 10.1g 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 30.7g Lean Meat Exchanges 0.5
Saturated Fat 10.2g Very Lean Meat/Protein Exchanges 0.0
Mono-unsaturated Fat 14.7g Fat Exchanges 5.9
Poly-unsaturated Fat 5.8g
% Calories from Fat 57%    
Cholesterol 47.8mg
Sodium 117.6mg
Vitamins Minerals
Vitamin A 200.0IU Calcium 178.8mg
Thiamin (B1) 1.6mg Copper 1.0mg
Riboflavin (B2) 0.6mg Iron 1.8mg
Niacin (B3) 1.7mg Magnesium 90.5mg
Vitamin B6 0.8mg Manganese 1.7mg
Vitamin B12 0.4mcg Phosphorus 236.3mg
Vitamin C 5.7mg Potassium 482.9mg
Vitamin E 11.3IU Selenium 1.3mcg
Folate 33.1mcg Sodium 117.6mg
Pantothenic Acid 1.5mg Zinc 1.6mg