Healthy Recipes: Blueberry Cobbler

With blueberry season quickly approaching, this is the perfect way to utilize your blueberries! I promise you will not be let down by this tasty treat!

INGREDIENTS:

1 ¼ cup                       Flour

½ cups                         Brown Sugar

2 teaspoon                 Baking Soda

½ teaspoon               Cinnamon

Pinch                            Nutmeg

¼ teaspoon               Salt

¼ cup                          Butter, Unsalted, softened

½ cup                          Non-Fat buttermilk

 

Filling:

¾ cup               Granulated Sugar

2 Tablespoons   Cornstarch

1 cup                Water

6 cups              Blueberries

 

DIRECTIONS:

• Preheat oven to 350F


• In a small bowl mix brown sugar, flour, butter, buttermilk, spices, baking soda and salt.


• Mix until butter is evenly distributed.


• In a medium sauce pot, mix sugar and cornstarch.


• Add water, and cook until you have made sugar syrup.


• About 5 minutes.


• In a medium size Pyrex dish, place blueberries in dish, then pour sugar syrup over blueberries.


• Then place cobbler mixture over the top.


• Bake in oven for about 30-45 minutes.


• Serve warm with your favorite low calorie ice cream.

NUTRITION:

Number of servings: 20

Serving Size: 1/20^th of the pan

Calories: 135

Fat: 4.5 grams

Blueberry Craze

For good reason there is a craze about the benefits of eating blueberries, not only are they delicious but they are good for you too.  Now we are not talking lots of blueberry muffins to get your healthy fill on blueberries.  We are talking about eating a cup of blueberries a day or several times a week; or even throwing a cup of fresh blueberries in a blender with skim milk and nonfat plain yogurt.  Now you might be thinking, let’s get to the facts, what are the benefits to eating all these blueberries.

Many benefits are related to cognitive functions improving such as improving your memory and postponing the effects of aging that usually attack the cognitive functions.  We enjoy being able to remember the little things in life and of course the big things in life so memory is an important part to your health.