Delicious desserts with fruit

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Published: 12/10/2011 - Updated: 09/09/2018

• Author: K. Laura Garcés G

Fruits are the favorite ingredients of the most requested desserts. On this occasion we chose 5 fruit: guava, high in vitamin C; apple, ideal for the stomach and rich in fiber and minerals; coconut, rich in oil; mango, high in fiber and vitamin A, and the delicious cherries. And to see that health can also be enjoyed, here we give you these delicious desserts:

Europe Apples 

Servings: 6

Ingredients

• 6 apples
• A cinnamon stick
• 100g of brown sugar
• A lemon 
• 500 ml of cream
• A few leaves of fresh mint
• Sweet wine

Preparation

1. Peel the apples and put in a saucepan with a little water (3 tablespoons), a tablespoon of sweet wine and cinnamon stick. Heat and let simmer for 25 minutes.
2. Remove the cinnamon stick, crush apples until you make a puree, remove the excess liquid and leave to cool.
3. Mount cream. Mix the puree with cold cream and add grated skin of a lemon. Place in the refrigerator.
4. Serve in individual glasses and garnish with a fresh mint leaf.

Guavas in cream

Ingredients

• 1 can of condensed milk
• 1 cup of sour cream • ½ Kg
• Guavas (ripe)
• Vanilla drops
• Lemon drops

Preparation

1. Wash the guavas and cut the crowns and the tail. Split in half and remove the seeds. Blend guava with cream and milk.
2. Add a few drops of lemon.
3. Put in the fridge and serve cold.

Baked apples

Servings: 4

Ingredients

• 4 golden apples
• Brown sugar
• Honey 
• Butter

Preparation

1. Remove the core of apples.
2. Arrange the apples in a baking dish and fill with nut butter. Sprinkle brown sugar and fill with a teaspoon of honey.
3. Bake in preheated oven about 45 minutes at 180 ° temperature.
4. Serve with cream, orange juice, ice cream, condensed milk or anything you like. (Before baking you can sprinkle the apples with a little sweet wine)

Coconut Chocolates

Servings: 40 candies

Ingredients

• 1 / 4 cup of egg whites
• 1 / 2 cup of sugar (100 grams)
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla
• Grated coconut (necessary amount)
• 250 grams of chocolate to cover

Preparation

1. Put egg whites and sugar in a small saucepan.
2. Bring to low heat, stirring with a strong hand beater (without stopping).
3. When it is boiled, a skin is  formed in the bottom of the pan and the sugar dissolves completely to form a syrup.
4. When it reaches that point remove the pan from heat.
5. Add grated coconut to form a mass that doesn't stick on fingers and you can work with hands.
6. In order to do it comfortably, work when it still is warm, with some butter in your hands.
7. Take small portions and form spherical balls.
8. Let rest for 24 hours in a dish
9. This is essential to avoid fatty elements.
10. Put the piece on a fork and bath with chocolate. As you finish bathing fit on white paper (sulfite, butter or bread).
11. Let dry.
12. Keep them stored in boxes with cellophane. Keep them in a dark, dry place (not in refrigerator). (To bathe you can use chocolate that contains hydrogenated fats coverage but a low percentage).

Country Pudding

Servings: 12

Ingredients

• 1 liter of milk 
• 150 grams of rice
• 200 grams of sugar
• 5 eggs
• 50g of butter
• A pinch of salt
• 1 teaspoon of lemon zest

Preparation

1. Bring the milk, three fourths of a cup of sugar and rice in a saucepan.
2. Stirring to dissolve sugar.
3. Allow the rice to cook low heat until it has absorbed all the milk.
4. Remove from heat, add butter, pinch of salt, grated lemon peel and let cool a few minutes.
5. Incorporate the beaten egg.
6. Put in the mold half cup of sugar, wet with a few drops of water and bring to high heat until you get a golden caramel color.
7. Make it run around the mold and let cool.
8. Pour the preparation of rice.
9. Carry a water bath and cook in a moderate oven on a baking sheet with two or three inches of water for 45 minutes.
10. Remove from mold when it is warm.
11. Serve with cream.

Marsala Cherries

Ingredients

• 1 cup of Marsala
• 1 cup of water
• 5 / 8 cup of superfine sugar
• 900 g of cherries
• 1 cinnamon stick of 2 inches size
• Lemon rind

Preparation

1. Bring to boil, stirring constantly, the Marsala, sugar, lemon rind, cinnamon and water.
2. Reduce heat, simmer for 5 minutes and withdraw the cinnamon.
3. Add cherries, cover and simmer for 10 minutes.
4. Transfer the cherries to a bowl.
5. Return to the fire pan and bring to boil for 4 minutes.
6. Pour the syrup over the cherries, and then set aside to cool for 1 hour.
7. Serve with cream.

• K. Laura Garcés G

  Writer, therapist and lecturer. She is a lover of natural medicine and the power of mind and emotions in body and life. In addition, he has studied nutrition and develops appropriate diets to support this healing process.She has written more than 1500 articles in magazines in Spain and Mexico, winner of two literature contests. Linkedin.