first posted 6/8/16
Chunks of chilled soft fruit make fabulous, utterly welcome summer desserts. This one is served in squat drinking glasses* to display their fine contents, topped off with a pillow of yoghurt and sprinkled with molasses sugar.
It's dessert that is so good for you. Berries and stoned fruit are the least sweet of fruits and the most nutritionally valuable.
Black Molasses sugar is the closest of sugars to the natural state of sugar beets and is full of valuable vitamins and minerals. Left on yoghurt overnight, it melts, leaving a deeply sweet glaze that's ever-so-slightly bitter - but in a good way. (If black sugar isn't available, use the darkest brown sugar you have.
For the photo, 67 used a variety of soft fruits: nectarines, cherries, kiwi fruit, strawberries and blueberries 'cause that's what was in the fridge after a fruit binge. But a single berry or soft fruit, or even a single or variety of less pricy fruits like apples, oranges, bananas, pears will be perfectly fine. (If using the less pricy fruits, stir in a generous pinch of cinnamon or ginger before topping with yoghurt.)
This is best made on the night before needed.
Cost: as little or as much as you like
Feeds: 1 or more
Ingred:
whole berries OR
peeled, cut up fruit OR
both
2-3 generous tbsp strained 0%-fat plain dairy or plant yoghurt
a drop or two of vanilla extract (opt)
1-1.5 generous teaspoons molasses sugar per serving
Method:
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It's dessert that is so good for you. Berries and stoned fruit are the least sweet of fruits and the most nutritionally valuable.
Black Molasses sugar is the closest of sugars to the natural state of sugar beets and is full of valuable vitamins and minerals. Left on yoghurt overnight, it melts, leaving a deeply sweet glaze that's ever-so-slightly bitter - but in a good way. (If black sugar isn't available, use the darkest brown sugar you have.
For the photo, 67 used a variety of soft fruits: nectarines, cherries, kiwi fruit, strawberries and blueberries 'cause that's what was in the fridge after a fruit binge. But a single berry or soft fruit, or even a single or variety of less pricy fruits like apples, oranges, bananas, pears will be perfectly fine. (If using the less pricy fruits, stir in a generous pinch of cinnamon or ginger before topping with yoghurt.)
This is best made on the night before needed.
Feeds: 1 or more
Ingred:
peeled, cut up fruit OR
both
2-3 generous tbsp strained 0%-fat plain dairy or plant yoghurt
a drop or two of vanilla extract (opt)
1-1.5 generous teaspoons molasses sugar per serving
Method:
