Quick Baked Pears

Ingredients

• Pears

  Raw

  2 large or 460g

• Sugar

  White, granulated sugar

  2 tsp or 8g

• Cinnamon

  Spices, ground

  ¼ tsp or 0.6g

• Cranberries

  Sweetened, dried

  ¼ cup or 30g

• Granola

  Cereals ready-to-eat, store bought

  ¼ cup or 31g

• Apple juice

  Canned or bottled, unsweetened, with added ascorbic acid

  ¼ cup or 62g

• Vanilla yogurt

  Low fat, 11 grams protein per 8 ounce

  ½ cup or 123g

Directions

1. Peel the pears and cut them in half lengthwise. Use a melon baller or grapefruit spoon to remove the core and seeds, creating a hollow.
2. Place the pear halves, cut sides up, in a glass pie plate. Combine the sugar and cinnamon, then sprinkle evenly over the pears.
3. Mix the cranberries and granola together, then mound into the hollows of the pear halves. Pour the apple juice in and around the pear halves. Cover the dish loosely with wax paper.
4. Cook in the microwave on HIGH for 6-8 minutes, or until the pears are tender when pierced with a knife. Let them stand in the dish for 5 minutes.
5. Use a large slotted spoon to transfer the pears to serving plates. Drizzle the juices from the pie plate over the pears and serve with vanilla yogurt.