Recipe - Stewed Fruit With Brown Sugar And Vanilla

4 cup Water
One half cup Firmly packed brown sugar
300 g Mixed dried fruit or your
choice
2 Hard peaches; cut or sliced up and
stones
; discarded
2 Hard pears; peeled and
; quartered
4 Orange slices
1 Cinnamon stick
1 Vanilla bean; split
lengthwise
Plain yoghurt or sour cream
Ground cinnamon

Combine all ingredients except yoghurt and ground cinnamon in a heavy
medium saucepan. Bring to boil, stirring until sugar dissolves.

Reduce heat and simmer until fruit softens, stirring occasionally, about 20
minutes.

Transfer the fruit to a glass bowl, using a slotted spoon. Boil remaining
liquid until reduced to 1 cup, about 10 minutes.

Pour the syrup over fruit, discarding orange slices. Serve warm, room
temperature or chilled, topping with dollop of yoghurt and dusting of
cinnamon.

Converted by MC_Buster.

Per serving: 788 Calories (kcal); 1g Total Fat; (1% calories from fat); 7g
Protein; 202g Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 75mg Sodium Food Exchanges:
One half Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 6 Fruit; 0 Fat; 7 Other
Carbohydrates

Converted by MM_Buster v2.0n.