Recipe - Plums - Halved Or Whole

6 Inch Vanilla Beans, (1),
split lengthwis
1 One half cup Sauterne Wine, or other
sweet white wine
4 lg Plums, *Note, Halve, Pit,
about 10 oz
2 tablespoon Honey
1 tablespoon Fresh Lime Juice
One fourth cup Lowfat Vanilla Yogurt
4 Lime Rind, strips, optional

*NOTE: Original recipe used the plums...I didn't have them so I used fresh
pears and it was great!!

Scrape seeds from vanilla bean into a saucepan, reserving bean for another
use. Add sauterne and stir well. Bring mixture to a boil over medhigh
heat. Add plum halves, cut sides up, in a single layer in saucepan; cover,
reduce heat, and simmer 15 min. Remove plums from saucepan with slotted
spoon; set aside and keep warm.

Bring sauternes mixture to a boil over medhigh heat; cook 4 min or until
reduced to 1 C. Remove from heat; stir in honey and lime juice.

Place 2 plum halves into each of 4 dessert compotes; top each with about
One fourth C sauternes mixture and 1 T yogurt. Garnish with lime rind, if desired.

Yield: 4 servings

This was really, really good. I used fresh pears and it was excellent.

Entered into MasterCook and tested for you by Reggie & Jeff Dwork
reggie@reggie.com

NOTES : Cal 139.7, Fat 0.6g, Carb 20.8g, Fib 1.6g, Pro 1.4g, Sod 15mg, CFF
5.5%.
Recipe by: Cooking Light, Jan/Feb 1996, pg 102

Posted to Digest eatlf.v097.n049 by Reggie Dwork reggie@reggie.com on
Feb 20, 1997.