Apple and Ginger Clafouti – a summer virtually fat free dessert!

About time we had some food on this blog, so here’s my recipe for…

Apple and Ginger Clafouti

(serves 8 – or two very hungry eat-loadsers – one slice shown in picture)

 

Preparation time – about 15 mins (not including cooking)

Ingredients

4 – 5 medium sized cooking apples

500g fat free fromage frais (I use Tesco light choices Natural Normandy Fromage Frais)

4 eggs

5 tbs artificial sweetener – plus sweetener for apple (to taste)

Ginger root – inch or so finely chopped (or ground ginger)

Nutmeg (pinch)

Cinnamon (pinch)

4 Cloves

Vanilla pod or dash of vanilla essence

2 or 3 tbs of water

 

Method

Preheat oven to 150 degrees C/Gas mark 2.

Peel apples and slice into saucepan (discard cores) Add sweetener to taste, 4 cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, half the ginger, water to stop sticking. Then simmer gently on hob until apples soft.

Meanwhile, beat together the eggs, fromage frais, 5 tbs of sweetener. Add the remainder of the chopped ginger, the vanilla pod if using or vanilla essence.

Spread softened apples over a large flan dish (remove the 4 cloves if you prefer not to bite into them later). Then cover apples with fromage frais mix and bake for 45 to 55 minutes. Keep an eye on it – I find this can burn quite easily once it’s nearly cooked. When it is cooked it will feel spongy and the edges will have started to brown.

You can serve this dessert hot or cold – each are equally yummy, and you can also wear a halo whilst eating it. It is very low fat and delicious.  NB In the picture ours is shown with a dusting of icing sugar – this is not essential, and will detract from its angelic properties :). There are lots of ways of eating loads and staying slim in our book, How to Eat Loads and Stay Slim.

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4 Responses to Apple and Ginger Clafouti – a summer virtually fat free dessert!

  1. Thanks, Della – sounds gorgeous. That’s pudding for tomorrow sorted out!

  2. Della Galton says:

    It’s very very nice, Kate, and is pretty good cold too. Enjoy x

  3. Wendy Clarke says:

    Hi Della. Sounds delicious – I have some cooking apples too so I might have a go. Just seen that we are sharing the pages of The People’s Friend and Woman’s Weekly special – I am very honoured to be in such good company!

    • Della Galton says:

      Hi Wendy, enjoy the clafouti and I’m honoured too. I liked your blog about your story. I tried to leave a comment on your blog but computer kept saying URL illegal character. Have no idea why , as I was just typing my name. Anyway, I did enjoy it. x

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