Baked Pears Stuffed With Walnuts and Raisins

Ingredients

•  2 apples or pears cored
•  ¼ cup mounaka raisins
•  ½ cup walnuts, chopped
•  ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
•  1 teaspoon stevia powder
•  ¼ cup apple juice

Method

•   Soak raisins in apple juice for up to 40 minutes.
•   Mix the walnuts, mounaka raisins, stevia and cinnamon.
•   Stuff the core with this mix.
•   Wrap each half in a foil.
•   Put in a baking tray and cover ½ inch of baking pan with apple juice.
•   Bake for 20 minutes.

Variation

You can just bake apples or pears and add some cinnamon, and sprinkle with raisins and nuts. This makes for a prefect sugar-free dessert and can work as a snack as well.

Shonali Sabherwal, macrobiotic nutritionist, chef and instructor and author of the books The Love Diet and The Beauty Diet.