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Showing posts with label Yogurt. Show all posts

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Amazing Yogurt Parfait's

Recently for breakfast I have been obsessed with making homemade yogurt parfaits and bringing them into work for breakfast. Obviously in a yogurt parfait there are endless possibilities of ingredients you can add... fruit, nuts.. whatever you want! However... mine go a little something like this...

Ingredients:

1/4 cup (approx) pineapple, chopped into bite sized pieces
1 kiwi, chopped into bite sized pieces (1 kiwi for me is about 12 pieces)
4-6 blackberries
Low-fat Wallaby Organic Vanilla Yogurt
Granola ( I use either strawberry and cream or vanilla almond, both from Whole Foods), about 1/4 cup (Udi's Granola Sampler (Original, Cranberry, Vanilla, Hawaiian, Au Naturel, Banaberry), 13-Ounce Bags (Pack of 6))

All I do is take a container that has some depth and place half the fruit in the bottom of the container. Then cover the fruit with a little granola, about 1/8 cup. Then, take  6 oz yogurt (give or take 1 or 2 oz) and cover the fruit and granola. Afterwards, place the remaining fruit on top of the yogurt. Top with granola. Refrigerate for at least 15 (preferably 30-60 if you can wait) minutes before eating to let the juices from the fruit soak into the granola and soften it slightly.

Enjoy with a spoon. Most importantly... when you go to dig in, DO NOT mix it all up with the spoon...! Eat it in bites as is... you get the best flavor this way.

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Now, like I said before...you obviously can use any fruit you want. I personally recommend pineapple and kiwi because they are very juicy and pair nicely with the granola (I add the blackberries just for fun and great flavor).

I also recommend using a clear container (like this: GladWare Entree Containers with Lids, 5-Containers) to assemble this in because it looks so pretty! It is nice to be able to see the layers of what you are creating!

Be careful! This is very addicting! Enjoy!