Very Healthy Near Instant Baked Apple With Creamy Nonfat Yogurt
photo by Perfect Pixie
- Ready In:
- 4mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
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2
ingredients
- 1 large apple
- 2 dashes cinnamon
- 2 dashes ground cloves
- 2 teaspoons nonfat yogurt
- 2 teaspoons 'greek-style' nonfat yogurt (aka 'strained & stirred')
- 2 teaspoons granulated artificial sweetener
directions
- Wash and dry a large apple - any variety.
- Cut in half.
- Remove core and stalk section from each half.
- Place in a microwaveable bowl.
- Sprinkle apples liberally with cinnamon.
- Sprinkle apples with ground cloves - cloves are very strong-flavoured so be careful not to go too heavy!
- Spoon half a teaspoon or so of nonfat natural (plain) yogurt onto each half, mixing it across the surface of each half so the top area is well covered in the spicy yoghurt.
- Cook in microwave on full power until apple is nicely soft for about 2 minutes (microwaves vary - maybe more or less depending on your machine).
- Sprinkle half a large half-teaspoon of granulated sweetener over the baked apples.
- Place a generous teaspoonful of nonfat Greek-Style (strained & stirred) natural (plain) yogurt onto each half.
- Sprinkle a generous half teaspoonful of granulated sweetener directly onto each blob of Greek-style yogurt and mix it into it a bit with the back of the spoon.
- SERVE.
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NOTES:
- I make my own batches of natural non-fat yoghurt (here in the UK, natural yoghurt = USA plain yogurt). Sometimes I strain and stir part of a batch so I have a choice between normal thickness yoghurt and what we in the UK call "Greek-style" which is strained and stirred extra-thick, for different uses. I suggest two types here because the runnier sort smoothes over things more easily when appropriate. If you only keep one type then use whatever you have - it will be just fine :).
- Here's a handy tip for fresh ground clove -- I keep two sets of grinders/mills in use. In one mill I grind my peppercorns, another one I use for Fenugreek (mehti), in another I grind all-spice and lastly I grind whole cloves in the remaining one. I'm sure there are other spices that would work just as well in spare/extra mills but that does me for now! (I don't use salt, ever. I slum it and use Lo-Salt in small quantities if I absolutely must!).
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Reviews
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This was really tasty, but like ladypit I had the same problem with the yogurt separating into a watery substance at the bottom of the bowl. However after leaving it for a couple of minutes and giving it a good stir about, it did thicken up a bit. I made this as listed, apart from using just one teaspoon of sugar, rather than two teaspoons of sweetener.
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Pretty tasty treat! I used a macintosh apple (green, nice and crisp, a little sour) and only regular fat free plain yogurt. Mine is pretty thick though, so it worked fine. The only problem I had was that there was a sort of watery substance all on the bottom of my bowl after microwaving. It tasted good but looked awful! I will try this again and see what I can do to modify my presentation! Thanks for such a healthy one!