Slow cooker Mixed Fruit Recipe

Diet types:

This easy dessert is similar to a bread pudding, but using the slow cooker instead of the oven. Bread is mixed with fruit, brown sugar, and cinnamon, and you set it and forget it…or at least for the two hours it will take to cook!

Ingredients:

    Ingredients

    • 4 slices white bread, cubed
    • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
    • 15 ounces canned chunky mixed fruit, canned in fruit juice
    • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
    • 1/2 cup rice milk, Rice Dream® original, unenriched
    • 2 eggs
    • 1/2 cup brown sugar

     

Preparation:
  1. Cut bread into cubes and place in slow cooker.  Sprinkle with cinnamon.

  2. Drain juice from fruit, reserving in a separate bowl.  Add fruit to slow cooker.

  3. In a mixing bowl whisk melted butter, rice milk, drained juice, eggs and brown sugar until combined.  Pour mixture over bread and fruit.

  4. Cover with lid and cook on high setting for 2 hours.

Helpful hints:

Renal and renal diabetic food choices

  • 1/2 meat
  • 1 starch
  • 1 fruit
  • 1 fat

Carbohydrate choices

2

Helpful hints

  • Use day old bread for best results.

 

Nutrients per serving:

    Nutrients per serving

    Calories 210

    Protein 4 g

    Carbohydrates 31 g

    Fat 9 g

    Cholesterol 87 mg

    Sodium 137 mg

    Potassium 185 mg

    Phosphorus 66 mg

    Calcium 53 mg

    Fiber 1.6 g