Quick Baked Pears

Ingredients

• Pears

  Raw

  2 large or 460g

• Sugar

  White, granulated sugar

  2 tsp or 8g

• Cinnamon

  Spices, ground

  ¼ tsp or 0.6g

• Cranberries

  Sweetened, dried

  ¼ cup or 30g

• Granola

  Cereals ready-to-eat, store bought

  ¼ cup or 31g

• Apple juice

  Canned or bottled, unsweetened, with added ascorbic acid

  ¼ cup or 62g

• Vanilla yogurt

  Low fat, 11 grams protein per 8 ounce

  ½ cup or 123g

Directions

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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