Roasted Bananas with Brown Sugar-Walnut Glaze
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients:
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons reduced-calorie margarine, melted
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 4 large bananas (about 1- 1/2 pounds)
- Cooking spray
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts, toasted
- 1 1/2 cups vanilla low- fat frozen yogurt
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
- Combine first 4 ingredients in a bowl, and set aside.
- Cut bananas in half lengthwise. Place banana halves, cut sides up, on a jelly-roll pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 450 degrees F for 4 minutes.
- Drizzle sugar mixture evenly over banana halves, and sprinkle with toasted walnuts. Bake an additional 3 minutes.
- Cut each banana piece into thirds crosswise. Serve bananas with frozen yogurt; drizzle with any remaining sugar mixture.
Serving Size: 4 banana pieces and 1/4 cup frozen yogurt
Linda Shapiro
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