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Ingredients
Chestnut Waffles with Pears
- Ingredients
- 2 Pear (each about 6 oz)
- 2 ozs cooked Chestnuts (vacuum-packed or canned)
- 2 eggs
- 1 pinch salt
- 6 Tbsps Canola oil
- 4 ozs Pastry flour
- ½ cup Pear juice
- 1 Tbsp powdered sugar
Rinse pears, wipe dry, halve, quarter and core.
Chop 1 pear coarsely, add with the chestnuts to a tall container and puree with an immersion blender. Cut the remaining pear quarters into thin slices.
Separate the eggs. Put egg whites with salt in a bowl and whisk until stiff with a hand mixer.
Put yolks in another bowl with 5 tablespoons of canola oil. Beat until fluffy with the hand mixer.
Sift flour over yolk mixture and stir in with the chestnut puree and pear juice.
Fold in beaten egg whites with a whisk. Let batter rest 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, heat a waffle iron and brush with the remaining canola oil. Cook the batter in 6 portions to golden brown.
Dust 1 waffle with powdered sugar and feed along with the pear slices. Freeze the remaining waffles and reheat to serve.
(Percentage of daily recommendation)
| Calorie | 231 cal. | (11 %) | ||
| Protein | 5 g | (5 %) | ||
| Fat | 12 g | (10 %) | ||
| Carbohydrates | 24 g | (16 %) | ||
| Sugar added | 2 g | (8 %) | ||
| Roughage | 3 g | (10 %) |
Healthy, because
1 waffle covers 65 percent of a baby's daily vitamin E requirement. This vitamin promotes energy metabolism, ensures good tissue growth, and the health of the red blood cells.
Even smarter
Instead of pear wedges, pear puree also goes well with the waffles. To make it, put the pear in a pot with a little water and steam it until it is very soft and crumbles.