Not all desserts are helpful. The best delicacies for health are fruits and berries. For those who are watching their figure, it makes sense to pay attention to the pears, because they are sweet, but they have even less sugar than apples. In addition, pears baked in a slow cooker will appeal even to those who have a sweet tooth, who do not follow the diet.
Cooking Features
Fresh pears can be eaten only in limited quantities, especially for people suffering from various diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Baked fruit is absorbed by the body better. In addition, they are very tasty, if only to prepare them correctly.
- Of spoiled pears do not make a tasty and healthy dessert. Moreover, even over-ripe fruits are not suitable for baking. For the preparation of pear dessert in a slow cooker, freshly ripened fruits or even slightly immature fruits are suitable.
- Pears should be thoroughly washed before cooking, even if they are from their garden. If the fruits are purchased, they should be washed very carefully, as it happens that they are treated with a special composition to give them a presentation.
- Most recipes for baked pears include adding sugar or honey to a dish. If you do not want pear dessert to provoke weight gain due to the large amount of calories received, you should not eat more than one pear per day. If you refuse to add sugar at all, then you can increase the portion by one and a half to two times.
You can serve baked pears with sweet sauce, yogurt, ice cream, although they are tasty by themselves.
Pears baked with almonds and cookies in a slow cooker
Composition:
- pears - 0, 4-0, 5 kg (2 pcs.);
- biscuit or biscuit - 100 g;
- almonds - 50 g;
- apple juice - 150 ml;
- sugar - 20-30 g;
- lemon juice - 5 ml;
- egg white - 1 pc .;
- unsweetened yogurt - 0, 2 l;
- honey - 50-70 g.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the pears, blot with a towel. Remove the stalk from them. Cut the fruit in half lengthwise. Teaspoon carefully remove the core.
- Drizzle the pears with lemon juice.
- With a knife, finely chop the almonds.
- Put the cookies in a bag and crush it with a rolling pin.
- Mix cookie crumbs with almonds and sugar.
- Whisk the egg white and add it to the resulting mixture.
- Fill the grooves in the pears with this mass.
- Pour juice in the bottom of the multicooker bowl. Put pears in it.
- Install the Baking program and cook the pears for 15 minutes.
- Melt the honey in a water bath until it becomes completely liquid. Mix it with yogurt.
- Put the pears on the plates, pour the yogurt-honey sauce.
Instead of a sauce, pears made according to this recipe can be served with ice cream, putting half a pear and a ball of ice cream on each plate.
Pears baked with walnuts and cheese in a slow cooker
Composition:
- pears - 0, 4-0, 5 kg;
- curd cheese - 100 g;
- hard cheese - 50 g;
- walnut kernels - 20-30 g;
- honey - 20-35 g;
- vegetable oil - 10 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Prepare the pears by washing them, dried, cut in half. Be sure to remove the core from the pears. Bottom each half cut a little pear pulp, so that the fruit was more stable.
- Melt the honey and brush them with pears.
- Fill the pears with curd cheese, grease them a little with their edges.
- In a mortar, use a pestle or a rolling pin to chop walnut kernels. Sprinkle with pear chips.
- Finely grate the cheese and put pears on top of it.
- Lubricate the multicooker bowl with a thin layer of oil. It will be convenient to do it with the help of a culinary brush.
- Put the pears on the bottom of the multicooker and run it for 20 minutes in the “Baking” mode.
Pears baked with walnuts and cheese can be served with coffee, hot chocolate or cocoa. With coffee or chocolate ice cream, they will also go well.
Pears baked with cottage cheese and raisins in a slow cooker
Composition:
- pears - 0, 4-0, 5 kg;
- soft cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- raisins - 50 g;
- honey (liquid) - 20 ml;
- water or syrup - 100 ml;
- cinnamon, powdered sugar - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the pears. Cut in half, spoon off the pulp from the middle.
- Smear the pears from the inside with melted honey.
- Mix cottage cheese with washed raisins, fill with halves of pears with cottage cheese mass.
- Sprinkle with ground cinnamon.
- Pour syrup or water to the bottom of the multicooker. Instead, you can also use juice or compote.
- Put the half pears in the slow cooker.
- Cook the pears in baking mode for 15 minutes.
- Before serving, sprinkle pears with powdered sugar, although this is not necessary, as they are sweet due to the sugars they contain, as well as honey and raisins.
If you want to limit sugar intake, raisins can be excluded from the recipe - pear dessert with cottage cheese will still be tasty.
Pears baked with honey and nuts in a slow cooker
Composition:
- pears - 0, 4-0, 5 kg;
- water or syrup - 50 ml;
- honey - 70 g;
- walnut kernels - 100 g;
- lemon juice - 10 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Prepare the pears for roasting by washing them, cutting them in half, removing the pulp from the middle.
- Pour lemon juice on pears.
- Melt the honey, smear the pears with a small amount of it.
- Mix the remaining honey with walnuts kernels chopped up in any way you like.
- Fill the pears with a sweet mixture.
- Put the pears in the slow cooker, at the bottom of which you need to pour a little water or syrup.
- Turn on the slow cooker by selecting the Baking program for 15 minutes.
The dessert prepared according to this recipe is very useful and does not threaten the figure at all if it is in moderation.
Pears baked in a slow cooker are not only tasty, but also a healthy delicacy. Yes, and cooking such desserts is a pleasure.
