It can be nice to finish off a meal with something sweet. But, all too often, something sweet can mean lots of sugar, lots of fat and – unfortunately - lots of calories! Our Vanilla Mint Apples with Prunes are light, pretty and delicious and contain just 270 calories per serving.
Ingredients
2 tbsp. lemon juice
2 apples
1 vanilla bean
4 tbsp. sugar
4 mint leaves on stem
100 g Sunsweet prunes
2 egg yolks (size L)
1 heaped tsp. starch
275 ml milk
30 g Amaretti
Instructions
- Mix 375 ml water and 1 tbsp. lemon juice in a bowl. Peel apples, divide them by four and remove the core. Immediately place apple pieces in the lemon juice water mixture to prevent them from going brown.
- Split vanilla bean lengthwise into two halves. Scrape one of the pod halves with the unsharpened side of your knife. Bring 100 ml water, 1 tbsp. lemon juice, 2 tbsp. sugar, vanilla seeds and the vanilla bean to a boil. Wash 3 mint leaves on the stem and add them to the syrup. Take apple quarters out of the lemon juice mixture and add them to the syrup. Sauté them for 12 minutes on low heat. For the last 3 minutes, add the prunes. Allow apples and prunes to cool off in the syrup. Remove mint stems and vanilla bean.
- For the vanilla sauce, scrape the second half of the vanilla bean. Whisk egg yolks, 2 tbsp. sugar, vanilla seeds and starch in a pot. Add milk while whisking the mixture and put vanilla bean in the sauce. Heat on medium temperature and stir well until the sauce gets slightly thick. Do not boil the sauce because otherwise it will clot. Allow to cool off.
- Serve apples and the prunes with vanilla sauce. Crumble Amaretti and sprinkle over the dish. Wash 1 stem of mint and remove the leaves. Garnish dessert with mint leaves and Amaretti crumbles.
