Baked Ginger Pears Recipe

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These dressed-up canned pears are a nice alternative to baked apples. Sweetened with a little brown sugar and sprinkled with pecans and ginger, they're wonderful served warm or cold, notes Shirley Glaab of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

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Baked Ginger Pears Recipe

Prep/Total Time: 30 min.

Yield: 4 Servings

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Ingredients

2 cans (15 ounces each) pear halves in juice
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup chopped pecans
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
4 gingersnap cookies, crumbled

Directions

Drain pears, reserving juice; set aside eight pear halves and 1/4 cup juice (save remaining pears and juice for another use).
Arrange pear halves cut side up in an ungreased 5-cup baking dish. Combine the brown sugar, pecans, lemon juice and ginger; sprinkle over pears.
Spoon reserved pear juice around pears. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until bubbly. Garnish with cookie crumbs. Yield: 4 servings.

Nutritional Facts One serving equals 227 calories, 7 g fat (1 g saturated fat), trace cholesterol, 37 mg sodium, 43 g carbohydrate, 3 g fiber, 2 g protein.

Originally published as Baked Ginger Pears in Light & Tasty February/March 2003, p23