Baked apples
(at time of publication)
Ingredients
- 6 apples
- 40g reduced-fat spread
- ¼ cup sliced almonds
- ¼ cup chopped dried apricots
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ cup soft brown sugarlight brown cane sugarX
- ½ cup apple juice
- ½cup water
Instructions
1 Preheat slow cooker to high. Core apples about three-quarters of the way through, making a hole about 4cm round the top of each. Use a sharp knife to score around the centre of each apple.
2 Mix spread together with almonds, apricots, cinnamon and sugar and use to fill apple cavities. Place apples in slow cooker, filling side up.
3 Pour juice and water around apples. Add a little more water if liquid does not come to just over halfway up apples. Cover and cook for 2-2 1/2 hours until apples are tender.
Serving suggestion
Serve apples immediately after cooking with low-fat yoghurt, sprinkled with ground cinnamon.
Variations
Make it gluten free: Check cinnamon is gluten free.
Nutrition Info (per serve)
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Calories 164cal
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Kilojoules 680kJ
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Protein 2g
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Total fat 8g
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–Saturated fat 1g
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Carbohydrates 20g
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–Sugars 20g
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Dietary fibre 3g
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Sodium 30mg
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Calcium 40mg
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Iron 1mg
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