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Rich, Creamy yogurt, Vanilla flavored pudding tempers the tart-sweet pomegranate compote.

It’s also wonderful as compote to eat for breakfast over Greek yogurt or crepes, or for dessert I love it warm with a little frozen yogurt.

Health Benefits:

Pomegranates are nutritional powerhouses – very high in vitamins and antioxidants that help fight the free radicals that can lead to disease. When they are in season, we eat them a lot, throwing them in salads or on granola, but mainly just snacking on their juicy little seeds or adding them to fresh vegetable juices

Yields-2-3 servings
Preparation time-20 minutes
Setting time-3-4 hours

Ingredients:

For yogurt layer:

• Fat free Greek yogurt/hung curd-1 cup
• Honey/maple syrup-2 tbsp
• Vanilla essence-1 tbsp

For pomegranate compote:

• Pomegranates- 3 large (opened, seeds removed)
• Corn starch/flour-2 tsp
• Water-1/4 cup
• Lemon/lime juice-2 tbsp
• Honey/maple syrup-3 tbsp (adjust as per the taste)

For serving:

• Pomegranate seeds
• Roughly Chopped pistachio

Procedure:

• Grind briefly the pomegranate seeds in a food processor/blender and transfer to a sieve, press down with back of a spoon to extract the juice, discard the seeds.
• Dissolve corn starch in 1/4cup water.

• Whisk in pomegranate juice, maple syrup, corn starch mixture in a medium saucepan and bring it to a boil,  add lime juice whisking continuously, boil until the compote slightly thickens
• Turn off the heat and allow it to cool completely.
• And then refrigerate for 2-3hours until completely set.

For yogurt layer:

• Put the yogurt, vanilla essence and maple syrup together in a bowl and whisk until well combined.

For serving:

• Take two glasses and spoon pomegranate jelly/compote in the bottom of the glass.
• Carefully spoon the yogurt mixture on top of the pomegranate compote.
• Spoon the pomegranate seeds and pistachio on top.

Note:

• I used corn starch in compote to make it a thicker and help to reduce the boiling time- you can skip corn starch and cook the pomegranate juice for little longer time until it thickens.
• Honey/maple syrup can be replaced with sugar or any sweetener of choice.
• I used freshly pressed pomegranate juice – store bought one can also be used.
• If your yogurt is not thick enough just hung it for 1-2 hours to remove the liquid content from it.