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Healthy Pan Cooked Apples In Red Wine Recipe

Posted on August 5, 2009 by healthy-chef

Ingredients (Serves 4)

• 4 eating apples
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• 40 g low fat spread
• 60 g light muscovado sugar
• 1 small orange
• 1 cinnamon stick, broken
• 150 ml red wine
• 225 g raspberries, hulled and thawed if frozen
• sprigs of fresh mint, to decorate

1. Peel and core the apples, then cut them into thick wedges. Place the apples in a bowl and toss in the lemon juice to prevent the fruit from discoloring.
2. In a frying pan, gently melt the low fat spread over a low heat, add the sugar and stir to form a paste.
3. Stir the apple wedges into the pan and cook, stirring occasionally, for 2 minutes until well coated in the sugar paste.
4. Using a vegetable peeler, pare off a few strips of orange rind. Add the orange rind to the pan along with the cinnamon pieces. Extract the juice from the orange and pour into the pan with the red wine. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 10 minutes, stirring.
5. Add the raspberries to the pan and cook for 5 minutes until the apples are tender.
6. Discard the orange rind and cinnamon pieces. Transfer the apple and raspberry mixture to a serving plate together with the wine sauce. Decorate with a sprig of fresh mint and serve hot.

Variation: For other fruity combination, cook the apples with blackberries, blackcurrants or redcurrants. You may need to add more sugar if you use currants as they are not as sweet as raspberries.

Original recipe from Healthy Cooking Recipes