These are some of our favorite recipes, mostly from Cooking Light, but we tend to edit portions and ingredients
that suit our taste buds (e.g. when a recipe calls for 1 minced garlic clove, we use about 4 :) ).
Other recipes are passed down from family and friends.
Enjoy!

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Blueberry Crisp

I prepared this recipe for dessert, with Blackberry Margaritas and Fresh Raspberry Lemonade (along with an apple-strawberry wine, a blueberry wine, and a key lime wine) for beverages, Baked Black Beans with Chorizo, Grilled Stuffed Jalapenos, and Strawberry-Avocado Salsa with Cinnamon Tortilla Chips for appetizers, and Flank Steak Tacos with Cabbage Slaw and Chimichurri Halibut Tacos with Grilled Pineapple-Avocado Salsa for the main course for our first Finer Things Book Club meeting ~ they were all a hit!

 

Ripe, fresh blueberries are perfect for this dish, though frozen berries will also work. But keep them frozen, and bake the crisp 10 or 15 minutes longer as needed. Thawed berries are too fragile to toss and give off lots of liquid. Serve warm or at room temperature with fat-free vanilla frozen yogurt -- a 1/2-cup scoop adds only about 70 calories a serving.

* I doubled the ingredients and used a pound of blueberries and a pound of strawberries ~ delicious!

Yield: 8 servings (serving size: about 1/2 cup)
Ingredients:
Cooking spray
4 teaspoons cornstarch, divided
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pound fresh or frozen blueberries
2 1/4 ounces all-purpose flour (about 1/2 cup)
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
3 tablespoons chopped walnuts
2 tablespoons cornmeal
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup chilled butter, cut into small pieces

Preparation:
1. Preheat oven to 375°.
2. Coat an 8-inch square glass or ceramic baking dish with cooking spray. Sprinkle 2 teaspoons cornstarch evenly in dish.
3. Combine remaining 2 teaspoons cornstarch, 2 tablespoons brown sugar, vanilla, and blueberries in a large bowl; toss. Place in prepared baking dish.
4. Weigh or lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife. Combine flour and next 6 ingredients (through cinnamon) in the bowl of a food processor; pulse twice to combine. Add butter; pulse 5 times or until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Spoon topping evenly over blueberries, packing down lightly. Bake at 375° for 30 minutes or until filling is bubbly and topping is golden.

Nutritional Information:
Calories: 217
Fat: 8.1g
Saturated fat: 3.9g
Monounsaturated fat: 1.8g
Polyunsaturated fat: 1.7g
Protein: 2.2g
Carbohydrate: 35.9g
Fiber: 2.4g
Cholesterol: 15mg
Iron: 0.9mg
Sodium: 195mg
Calcium: 25mg

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