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

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