Apples in cardamom cream
4 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Frozen puff pastry shells | |
| 1 | tablespoon | Unsalted butter; plus |
| 1 | teaspoon | Unsalted butter |
| 4 | larges | Jonathan apples; peeled, cored and thinly sliced |
| 3 | tablespoons | Sugar |
| ½ | cup | Evaporated skim milk |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Ground cardamom |
| 2 | tablespoons | Chopped pecans |
Directions
Bake puff pastry shells according to package directions. Melt butter in a heavy nonstick skillet over medium high heat. Sauté apples and sugar 12-15 minutes, stirring frequently. (Reduce heat if necessary to keep apples from burning.) When apples begin to caramelize, reduce heat to medium. Stir in evaporated milk and cardamom. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium low.
Simmer 1 minute. Stir in pecans. Just before serving, spoon fruit mixture into baked puff pastry shells.
Per serving: calories 437, fat 21.8g, 43% calories from fat, cholesterol 11mg, protein 6.0g, carbohydrates 58.1g, fiber 3.9g, sodium 217mg.
SOURCE >from www.mymenu.com >from Caravanserai: Mixing Spices with History: Recipes With Cardamom www.bayarea.net/~emerald/caravan/ Site has information about the history of cardamom, its storage, uses and folklore and mail order. Busted by phannema@... (jan 1998) Recipe by: Caravanserai: Recipes with Cardamom Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #1018 by KitPATh <phannema@...> on Jan 16, 1998