Baked Apples with Cheddar and Walnuts

By dette

You can easily halve this recipe to make just 2 servings. Just about any other apple variety would work here, but be sure the apples are baked until tender before you fill them with the cheese and nut mixture.

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp chopped walnuts
• 4 McIntosh apples
• 1/2 c. shredded reduce-fat cheddar cheese
• 1/4 c spoon-size shredded wheat cereal, crushed

Details

Servings 4

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Place the nuts on a baking sheet and bake until golden and fragrantk, 4-5 mintues. Transfer the nuts to a plate to cool.

Pare the skin from the top third of the apples. Core the apples, leaving a 1/2 inch base intact at the bottom and a 1 1/2 inch wide opening at the top. Place the appels in a small baking pan, cover loosely with foil, and bake until tenfer, about 15 mintues.

Combine the walnuts, cheese, and cereal in a bowl. Stuff the apples with the cheese mixture. Cover loosely with the foil and return to the oven. Bake until the cheese melts and the apples are tender, aobut 5 mintues.
Let cool 10-15 mintues before serving.

154 cal; 5 g fot fat; 2 g sat fat; 8 mg chol; 75 mg sod; 24 g carb; 4 g fib; 5 g prot; 117 mg calc POINTS: 3

You can store leftover baked apples in the refrigerator fora day or two and rehat them in a microwave oven at 50% power for 1-2 Mintues