Clean Eating Apples And Yams

If you follow this blog with any regularity, you know I’ve been involved with a project over at Elvis International Magazine. They asked me to make a couple of recipes that were the King’s favorites and photograph them for the magazine.

Aside from being tickled pink at the very idea of being “involved with Elvis” ~blushing~, I was ecstatic at the idea of converting some Elvis favorites into clean eating meals. This one, was a breeze!

Clean Eating Apples And Yams
(Makes 8 servings)

Ingredients
2 very large yams
2 apples
1 tbsp. molasses
2 tbsp. agave
1/4 tsp. ground cloves
2 tsp. corn starch
1/2 cup prepared orange juice (no added sugar)
2 tbsp. walnuts – chopped

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Step 1 – Boil your yams with the skins on for about 40 minutes. Remove from water and allow to cool.

Step 2 – Peel your yams and your apples. Remove the core as well. If you have an apple peeler, all the better as it will do both jobs at once!

Step 3 – Slice your yams and apples about 1/4 inch thick.

Step 4 – Spray a casserole dish with a light coat of olive oil. Then, layer your apples and yams in rows.

Step 5 – In a sauce pot, combine your remaining ingredients (except the walnuts) using a whisk. Be sure to dissolve your corn starch so you don’t have any clumps. Heat as you whisk until the sauce is nice and thick.

Step 6 – Pour sauce over yams and apples and top with walnuts.

Step 7 – Bake for about 20 minutes.

Eat and Enjoy!

Munchkin Helpers:

If you have little ones, here’s how they can help (With close supervision, of course).

Let them add all the measured ingredients to the pot. Older kids can stir with the whisk.

If you have a manual apple peeler, let the kids crank the handle. They LOVE this! They can also layer the yams and apples in the casserole dish.

Nutritional Content
1 serving = 1/8 of total recipe

Calories: 275
Total Fat: 2 gm
Saturated Fats: 0 gm
Trans Fats: 0 gm
Cholesterol: 0 gm
Sodium: 17 mg
Carbohydrates: 64 gm
Dietary fiber: 8 gm
Sugars: 13 gm
Protein: 3 gm
Estimated Glycemic Load: 27

Nutritional Information estimated at Nutritiondata.com. Data may not be accurate.

Caution: Any time a child is in the kitchen, they will require close supervision. Munchkin Helpers suggestions should be applied with common sense to your own child, taking their own capabilities into account. Do not assume that because it says here that your child can do something, that they can, in fact do it. Please use common sense when in the kitchen with your child(ren).

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