PEAR & GINGER SNOW ,Low-sugar, Frugal, Healthy, Deconstructed and layered

A Thursday night treat without breaking healthy eating rules

Pear Snow, Deconstructed 

On Thursdays we sometimes lose the will to carry on, having to wait yet another day before the weekend begins.

It's on days like these that 67 likes a small culinary treat - something sweet, tasty and unusual but still low-sugar, low-fat and relatively healthy.

Pear Snow is the perfect solution.  Like Apple Snow, it's whipped cooked dessert fruit mixed with egg white or cream in soft yummy peaks.

Pear Snow forgoes the eggs, replaces cream with yoghurt cream and then - making life easier and prettier - serves it in layers. Grated fresh ginger teams up with candied ginger for exotic flavour without too many extra calories.  For extra colour contrast, toss a few redcurrants on each each fruit layer (opt).

It tastes absolutely wonderful; you won't believe it's a frugal, low-sugar, low-calorie dessert!      

Cost: £2.50
Serves: 3-4

Ingred:
   750 gr/ 1.5 lbs conference pears
   1 tsp butter
   1 tsp lemon juice
   1 heaped tsp fresh grated ginger

   1 recipe yoghurt cream with candied ginger (this needs to be started the night before or about 4 hours before needed)
   
   a handful of redcurrants

Method:

1.  Peel pears, quarter, remove fibrous cores, cut into 3 similar  sized pieces  
2. Add to a large non-stick frying pan with butter, lemon juice and fresh ginger
3. Cover with a lid and cook over med heat, stirring to prevent catching, until pears are soft and yielding - about 25 mins
4. Set aside to cool
5. Prepare Ginger Yoghurt Cream; refrigerate until needed
6. Blitz pears with a stick blender until of uniform consistency; refrigerate until needed
7. Layer in small water glasses: pears, a few berries if using, Ginger Yoghurt Cream

Tips:  

• If you liked this you will probably also like Baked Pineapple Pudding, a bit fiddly but make double the recipe on a weekend and freeze one for a late-week treat
• You can make this with dessert apples, using cinnamon instead of ginger, and plain yoghurt cream with added extract of vanilla 
• Ring the changes, adding blueberries or other berries

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This recipe has  been developed by B M Lee/ Bright Sun Enterprises.  It may not be reproduced without the author's written permission.