Best Poached Apples With Vanilla Yogurt Recipes

Cider-Poached Apples With Cinnamon Yogurt image

Provided by Derf2440

Categories Dessert

Time 40m

Yield 2 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 6

1 cup apple cider or 1 cup apple juice
1/2 cinnamon sticks or 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 golden delicious apple, peeled, halved and cored
1/4 cup nonfat vanilla yogurt, sweetened with artificial sweeter (aspartame)
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup toasted chopped pecans

Steps:

Bring apple cider and cinnamon stick to a boil in small sauce pan over high heat.
Let boil, uncovered, about 20 minutes or until liquid is reduced to about 1/2 cup.
Add apples; cover and simmer about 10 minutes or until apples are just tender.
Gently remove apple halves and poaching liquid from saucepan.
Refrigerate until cooled.
Combine yogurt and ground cinnamon in small bowl;reserve 1 tablespoon.
Divide remaining yogurt mixture evenly among 2 dessert dishes.
Place apple halves on top of sauce.
Sprinkle each apple half with toasted pecans.
Drizzle with reserved yogurt sauce.

Poached Apples with Vanilla Cinnamon Syrup image

Provided by Tyler Florence

Categories dessert

Time 1h

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 6

4 granny smith apples, peeled with the stem on
3 cups of sugar
2 vanilla beans, split and scraped
4 cinnamon sticks
2 quarts of water
Juice of one lemon

Steps:

In a roomy one gallon pot place peeled apples, vanilla, cinnamon and sugar. Cover with water then bring to a simmer over medium to low heat for twenty minutes. Once the apples are soft enough, pierce with a knife. Remove the apples with a slotted spoon to a holding plate. Reduce poaching liquid to a light syrup, then place the apples back in sauce pot and hold on warm until ready to serve.
Use four small serving bowls with matching underliner plates then place one apple in the middle of each bowl. Pour warm syrup over each apple and then garnish cinnamon sticks and vanilla beans.