No Fuss Fruit Chutney

Chutney de fruits exotiques

No Fuss Fruit Chutney - This No Fuss fruit chutney recipe cooks, stove top in only 5 minutes! The fresh fruit can be substituted, as well as the preserves, for a new and different chutney everytime. This speedy, simple fruit recipe is also Low Carb, and very healthy!

Prep Time: 5-10 mins
Cook Time: 5 mins
Main Ingredient: Fruit, Spice
Difficulty Level: 1

Ingredients to make No Fuss Fruit Chutney

1/4 cup Sugar-free apricot preserves - I used Polaner brand
2 teaspoons Cider Vinegar - to taste
1/4 teaspoon Chili powder - to taste
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon - ground
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder - or 1 small clove fresh, mashed
1/8 teaspoon ginger - or fresh, minced
1 ounce Fresh mango - optional, fine diced

**Other fruits and preserve flavors may be used to suit your tastes and availability.

Directions to make No Fuss Fruit Chutney

Step 1:

Over low heat (or in a double boiler) combine all ingredients. Allow to cook for at least 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Allow to cool a bit then taste and adjust spices as desired.

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Apple Curry Soup

fruit Apple Curry Soup - This tasty, out of the ordinary, fruit soup recipe, has a real homestyle taste that is fabulous. Made with the sensational pairings of apples and onions, with curry and ginger, we through in a little sherry as well, it creates a flavor explosion! Enjoy it on it’s own, or  as an easy appetizer to start a meal.

Prep Time: 5-10 mins
Cook Time: 25 mins
Servings: 4-6
Difficulty Level: 2

Ingredients to make Apple Curry Soup

1 Onion, chopped
1 tb Curry
1 tb Margarine
1 1/2 lb Parsnips, sliced
1 ts Fresh grated ginger
Black pepper
4 1/2 c Light vegetable stock or water
1 lb Apples, peeled & chopped
3 tb Sherry

Directions to make Apple Curry Soup

Step 1:Saute onion in margarine and curry, covered, for 5 minutes, without browning. Add the parsnips & ginger. Cover and cook a further 10 minutes. Stir occasionally. Add the stock or water and bring to a boil, then simmer gently for 15 min, until the parsnips are tender.
Step 2:. Puree the soup in a food procesor
Step 3:Return soup to the rinsed-out pan, reheat gently and season to taste with pepper. You may use parsnips instead of carrots and add 1 T. curry powder to the onions when you saute them. A swirl of yogurt on top is good and add some crisp croutons.

 

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Apple Filled Acorn Squash

fruit_sq Apple Filled Acorn Squash - This phenomenal, fruit filled squash recipe is an oven baked sensation. While adding brown sugar to baked squash is common, we took it a tasty, sweet step further with the addition of fresh apples and chopped walnuts for a real farmhouse style side dish. This very simple recipe looks like something you spent hours on, making it ideal, for your next dinner party.

Prep Time: 5 mins
Cook Time: 45 mins
Main Ingredient: Squash
Difficulty Level: 1

Ingredients to make Apple Filled Acorn Squash

3 Acorn Squash
2 Apples, chopped
1/2 c Chopped Walnuts
1 T Grated Orange Peel
1/2 c Brown Sugar
2 T Margarine, melted

Directions to make Apple Filled Acorn Squash

Step 1:Preheat oven to 350 deg F. Cut squash in half lengthwise and scrape out seeds. Place cut side down in baking dish and bake for 25 minutes.
Step 2:Mix the other ingredients. Turn squash cut side up, fill with apple mix and continue baking for 20 minutes, or until squash is tender.

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Frozen Fruit Cocktail

frtcktl Frozen Fruit Cocktail - This exotic, frosty fruit cocoktail recipe is made with big juicy chunks of fruit and applesauce. The fruit can be changed to your family’s favorites, regular or chunky applesauce, your choice, all mixed together and frozen. Doesn’t that sound divine? A healthy, quick, and easy recipe, that even kids love!

Cook Time: 0 mins
Main Ingredient: Fruit
Difficulty Level: 1

Ingredients to make Frozen Fruit Cocktail

1 c Chunky or Regular Apple Sauce
1-10 oz Pkg frozen strawberries, thawed
1-11 oz Can mandarin orange segments, drained
1 c Grapes
2 tb Orange juice concentrate

Directions to make Frozen Fruit Cocktail

Step 1:In medium bowl, combine all ingredients. Spoon fruit mixture into individual dishes or paper cups. Freeze until firm. Remove from freezer about 30 minutes before serving.

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Festive Fruit Chicken Salad

fruit1 Festive Fruit Chicken Salad - This chunky, crunchy, fresh fruit and chicken salad recipe is out of this world! A fiesta of fruit flavor comes from the tropical fruit mix of pineapple, canteloupe, and grapes, which makes a very tasty bed to serve the succulent chicken salad on. A very versatile, quick, and easy recipe.

Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 0 mins
Servings: 2
Main Ingredient: Chicken, Fruit, Cashews
Difficulty Level: 1

Ingredients to make Festive Fruit Chicken Salad

1 c Chopped cooked chicken
1/4 c Chopped celery
1/4 c Seedless red grapes,halved
1/4 c Canned pineapple tidbits, drained
3 tb Purchased tuna salad dressing
2 Leaves leaf lettuce
1/4 Cantaloupe, seeded, peeled, cut in thin wedges
2 tb Cashews

Directions to make Festive Fruit Chicken Salad

Step 1:In medium bowl, combine chicken, celery, grapes and pineapple. Add dressing; stir gently to coat.
Step 2:Place lettuce leaf on each individual serving plate. Arrange cantaloupe wedges over lettuce, creating fan shape. Spoon chicken salad over bottom of cantaloupe fan. Sprinkle with cashews

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Fruit Pizza Dessert

frt_pz Fruit Pizza Dessert - This unique, yet fabulous, fruit pizza dessert recipe, is a fantastic finale to any meal and one of the Best kids recipes we have. Sweet, succulent apples and the always fragrant cinnamon, are partnered and mixed together, then oven baked into the bread dough “crust”. Even kids love this tasty dessert, especially with ice cream!

Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 40 mins
Main Ingredient: Apples, Bread
Difficulty Level: 1

Ingredients to make Fruit Pizza Dessert

8 oz Frozen bread dough, thawed, one-half frozen loaf
8 oz Cream cheese; softened
1/4 c Sugar
1 Egg
1 ts Vanilla
4 c Apples, peeled, thinly sliced
2/3 c Sugar
1/4 c Flour
1 ts Cinnamon

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1/3 c Flour
1/3 c Brown sugar
2 tb Margarine, softened
1/2 c Slivered almonds

Directions to make Fruit Pizza Dessert

Step 1:Place bread dough on greased 12 inch deep dish pizza pan. When thawed completely, pat dough on bottom and 1/2 inch up sides of pan. Let rest 15 minutes.
Step 2:Combine cream cheese, 1/4 cup sugar, egg and vanilla until smooth. Spread over bottom of crust. Combine apples, 2/3 cup sugar, 1/4 cup flour and cinnamon. Arrange evenly over cream cheese mixture.
Step 3:In a small mixing bowl, combine 1/3 cup flour and brown sugar. Cut in margarine until mixture is crumbly. Add almonds. Sprinkle evenly over apples. Bake at 350F for about 40 minutes, or until golden brown. Serve warm or cold, with whipping cream, whipped topping or ice cream.

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Easy Sweet Salsa

frt_sal Easy Sweet Salsa - This wonderful, sweet and sassy, fruit salsa recipe is so fresh tasting, easy, and speedy, you may never eat the store-bought variety ever again. Big chunks of fresh, colorful garden veggies, paired with a refreshing splash of citrus, and ripe juicy mango. Great with fish and meat, and a great healthy snack, with some tortilla chips.

Prep Time: 10-15 mins
Main Ingredient: Mango, Veggies
Difficulty Level: 1

Ingredients to make Easy Sweet Salsa

1 large ripe mango, peeled, pitted and diced
1/2 red bell pepper, diced
2 tablespoons minced red onion
1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced
2 tablespoons lime juice
1 tablespoon lemon juice

Directions to make Easy Sweet Salsa

Step 1:Prepare the mango salsa by combining the mango, red bell pepper, red onion, cilantro, and jalapeno pepper in a bowl. Add the lime juice and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, and toss well. Season to taste with salt and pepper, and refrigerate until ready to serve.

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