HASSELBACK APPLES

Handson: 15 min. Total: 60 min.
Choose firm apples with sweettart flavor, such as Pink Lady or Honeycrisp; in our tests, Fuji and Granny Smith fell apart.

Ingredients:
2 large firm apples, peeled, cored, and halved vertically
Cooking spray
4 tablespoons brown sugar, divided
2½ tablespoons butter, melted and divided
¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon, divided
2 tablespoons oldfashioned rolled oats
1 teaspoon allpurpose flour
¼ teaspoon kosher salt
1½ cups lowfat vanilla ice cream

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 400°.

2. Starting at the outermost edges, cut most (but not all) of the way through each apple half at ?inch intervals. Place apple halves, cut sides down, in an 8inch square glass or ceramic baking dish coated with cooking spray. Combine 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, and ½ teaspoon cinnamon; brush mixture evenly over apple.

3. Cover pan with foil; bake at 400° for 20 minutes. Remove foil. Bake at 400° for 10 minutes or until apples are tender. Remove pan from oven; cool 10 minutes.

4. Combine remaining 3 tablespoons sugar, remaining 1½ tablespoons butter, remaining ¼ teaspoon cinnamon, oats, flour, and salt. Carefully fan open apple halves. Spoon oat mixture evenly over apples. Bake at 400° for 10 minutes. Turn broiler to high (leave pan in oven); broil 2 minutes. Serve with ice cream.

SERVES 4 (serving size: 1 apple half and about ? cup ice cream)
CALORIES 260; FAT 9.2g (sat 5.4g, mono 1.9g, poly 0.4g); PROTEIN 3g; CARB 43g; FIBER 3g; CHOL 23mg; IRON 0mg; SODIUM 222mg; CALC 99mg

Make Ahead Tip: Cook apples in advance, but hold off on step 4. Cool and refrigerate baked apples until ready to serve; then top with streusel and bake as directed.


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