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Recipe tags: 5 or less ingredients, Bake, Easy, Fruit

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Desserts

Poached Pears

Recipe submitted by DaVita renal dietitian Geri from Washington.

Portions: 4

Serving size: 1/2 pear

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 2 D’Anjou pears
• 4 teaspoons butter
• 2 cups cranberry or apple juice

Preparation

1. Mix cinnamon and sugar in a small bowl.
2. Cut pears in half and using a spoon scoop out seeds and stem.
3. Make a thin slice across round part of pear, so that it lays flat in baking dish.
4. Place pears skin side down in a baking dish and sprinkle tops with cinnamon and sugar mix.
5. Place 1 teaspoon butter in the seed hole of each pear. 
6. Pour juice in bottom of pan.
7. Cover with foil and bake at 350° F approximately 30 minutes or until pear is soft when poked with fork.

Nutrients per serving 

• Calories: 165
• Protein: 0 g
• Carbohydrates: 30 g
• Fat: 5 g
• Cholesterol: 11 mg
• Sodium: 31 mg
• Potassium: 131 mg
• Phosphorus: 13 mg
• Calcium: 21 mg
• Fiber: 2.4 g

Renal and Renal Diabetic Food Choices 

Helpful Hints

• If your baking dish is shallow you may need less juice. The juice should only come halfway up the side of the pears.
• Pour juice over pears before serving if desired.

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  Venida M. says:

This recipe seems as if it will be easy and delicious. I will have to try it

Reviewed: Oct. 14, 2009, 3:12 PM  -  Inappropriate review?   

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