Any female person from early childhood knows that sweets harm the figure. However, we all love all kinds of desserts so much that it can be very difficult to refuse them at all. In addition, nutritionists unanimously reiterate that sometimes you can and should pamper yourself delicious. How to combine two such diametrically opposite concepts as a good figure and dessert? It turns out that all this is not so difficult, it is enough to replace a piece of cake or a bar of chocolate with a healthy and light fruit treat. Fortunately, their recipes are available in huge quantities and for every taste: baked pears , caramelized apples , tangerines in chocolate. However, let's move on from words to deeds and try to make a simple dessert of fruit.
Pears baked with cottage cheese
To prepare, you need soft homemade cottage cheese, egg white, vanilla sugar, a little chocolate and pear per one serving. Choose large, solid fruits. Best for baking suitable variety "Conference".
Making dessert is very simple. Pear cut into two halves. Ponytails can be left. We remove the core with seeds and make a shallow recess in the pear. Cottage cheese is mixed with vanilla sugar and protein (previously whipping it into a foam). We spread the finished mass into halves of pears, put the fruits on a baking sheet and put in the oven for about twenty minutes. We pour another hot dessert with melted chocolate or honey. You can sprinkle crushed nuts, powdered sugar on top.
Baked pears with cognac
Of course, such a dessert will require more effort from the hostess. But with this dish you can safely treat both friends and relatives. If you replace cognac with fruit syrup, a delicate delicacy can be offered to children.
In order to prepare a pear dessert with cognac, you will need a glass of milk, 4 medium-sized pears, 100 ml of cognac (syrup), 100 g of morning cookies, yolk, 2 tbsp. l butter, 50 g sugar, walnuts 5 - 6 pcs., starch 50 g, currant jelly 4 tbsp. l (can be replaced with any berry).
We breed starch in a small amount of milk. We put the rest of the milk on the fire, dissolve sugar, cow's butter in it, carefully introduce diluted starch and yolk. We need to get the usual milk jelly, a thick consistency. Make sure that milk does not get burnt, otherwise the smell will ruin the whole dish.
Peel the pears, cut out the middle. leaving a wall 1.5 cm thick, lay out berry jelly inside.
Knead cookies into crumbs, mix with crushed nuts, pour to the bottom of the mold, greased with margarine and pour cognac. We put pears on top and fill with milk jelly. Put in the oven for 10 minutes. heat temperature 180 - 190 degrees.
We serve the baked pears after the dessert has cooled well.
Caramel cream pear
A caramelized pear or apple is not only tasty, but also very beautiful.
Pear dessert with cream can be safely served even on holidays.
A dish is prepared in a few minutes in the microwave. It will take pears, at the rate of one fruit per serving. In addition, you will need butter, cane sugar and heavy cream.
We cook each portion separately. To do this, we clear each fruit from the peel, leaving the stalk. We put the pear on a plate, pour sugar around (3 tbsp.) And put small pieces of butter, and put in the microwave for five minutes to melt the sugar. Add cream, one spoonful per serving, and pour the pear with caramel. Garnish with mint or nuts.
Gourmet Salad
A rare festive table is complete without salad, but the traditional "Olivier" and "herring under a fur coat" will cause the figure even more damage than a piece of cake. Therefore, those who monitor the weight have to look for alternatives.
This salad is a find for gourmets, especially on hot summer days. Chicken with pear and grapes create an unusual taste, and lettuce leaves are refreshing.
It will take chicken fillet, unsweetened pear, seedless grapes, lettuce - lettuce or iceberg. For dressing, prepare a sauce of natural yogurt, pepper, salt and mustard (mix to your taste).
Boil the fillet and chop. Peel the pear and cut into cubes, cut the grapes in half each berry. Mix everything with sauce and spread on lettuce leaves. If desired, you can sprinkle with herbs.