Phyllo-Wrapped Poached Pears In Wine And Cinnamon

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Phyllo-Wrapped Poached Pears In Wine And Cinnamon

 

Recipe By : Healthful Cooking, Mary Carroll, StarTrib, 3/02

Serving Size : 4 Preparation Time :0:00

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Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method

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4 medium Bosc pears

2 cups nonalcoholic red wine

2 cups apple juice

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 cinnamon stick

2 teaspoons grated orange peel

8 sheets phyllo dough

3 melted unsalted butter -- up to 5

or as needed

4 cups vanilla low-fat frozen yogurt

OR ice cream

 

Serves 4.

 

Peel pears, leaving stem intact if possible. Using melon baller, core from

bottom. Place in heavy 2-quart saucepan. Add wine, juice, sugar,

cinnamon, and orange peel. Bring to boil over medium-high heat, then lower

heat to medium. Cook 20 to 30 minutes, gently turning pears to submerge

each completely, or until pears are tender. Remove from poaching

liquid. Set aside.

 

Bring poaching liquid to boil over high heat. Cook 5 to 10 minutes, or

until reduced by half and thickened to a syrup. Remove cinnamon stick and

discard.

 

Lightly butter a 9-by 12-inch baking dish. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

 

On clean, dry counter, lay phyllo sheets in stack. Brush top sheet with

melted butter. Repeat with next sheet. Place pear in center of two

stacked, buttered sheets of phyllo. Wrap ends of phyllo around top of

pear, twisting around stem. (Don't worry too much about how you do this --

the baking process creates beauty from chaos.) Lightly brush outside of

phyllo with butter. Stand pear in baking dish. Repeat with remaining pears.

 

Bake 15 to 20 minutes, or until golden brown. Serve immediately with

yogurt or ice cream drizzled with reduced poaching liquid.

 

Nutrition information per serving: Calories 571, Carbohydrates 110 g,

Protein 10 g, Fat 12 g, including sat. fat 7 g, Cholesterol 31 mg, Sodium

172 mg, Calcium 348 mg, Dietary fiber 4 g. Diabetic exchanges per serving:

1 milk, 3 fruit exch., 3 1/2 other carb. exch., and 2 1/2 fat exch.

 

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