Roasted pear and blue cheese polenta bites
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Total time: 34 min • Prep: 15 min • Cook: 18 min • Serves: 18 • Difficulty: Easy
These appetizers have a delicious mix of sweet, salty and savoury flavours. Make sure your pear is ripe but still firm or it will be difficult to slice.
Ingredients
Olive oil cooking spray
4 spray(s)
Bosc pear
2 large, or Anjou (ripe but firm)
Fat free ready-to-eat polenta (in tube)
18 oz, sliced into 18 rounds
Blue cheese
3 tbsp(s), crumbled
Chopped pecans (unsalted, raw or dry roasted, no sugar added)
3 tbsp(s), toasted
Instructions
1
Place oven racks in upper and lower thirds of oven. Preheat oven to 400°F. Coat 2 baking sheets with cooking spray.
2
Quarter pears lengthwise; cut each quarter into 9 pieces (you’ll end up with 36 pieces per pear).
3
Place pears in a single layer on one prepared pan; place polenta rounds in a single layer on other pan and sprinkle with salt (optional). Lightly coat pears and polenta with cooking spray. Bake until polenta and pears are golden brown, 12-15 minutes; set pears aside.
4
Top each polenta round with 1/2 tsp blue cheese; bake until cheese melts, 2-3 minutes. Remove from oven; top each with 4 pieces roasted pear and 1/2 tsp chopped pecans. Cool slightly before serving.
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