Pom Wonderful

Recently we had the chance to do a bit of cooking with the wonderful pomegranate juice from Pom Wonderful. This juice is delicious served on ice with a little 7up mixed in for good measure. It is also wonderful used in various recipes many of which can be found on the Pom Wonderful website. I will be sharing a few of the different recipes that we make with the pomegranate juice from Pom Wow during the month of July.

Pom Wonderful can be found:
website: http://www.pomwonderful.com/
facebook : http://www.facebook.com/pomwonderful

Cinnamon French Toast:
4 large eggs
1-1/4 cups low-fat milk or plain soymilk
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon grated fresh nutmeg
8 slices cinnamon swirl or challah bread, sliced 1-1/2" thick
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
POM Apple Compote:
juice from 2 to 3 large POM Wonderful Pomegranates,* or 1 cup POM Wonderful 100% Pomegranate Juice
1 vanilla bean, cut lengthwise
1/2 cup dried, pitted cherries
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
2 lbs. Gala apples, peeled and sliced 1/2" thick
1/2 cup real maple syrup
Garnish:
1 cup arils from 1 to 2 large POM Wonderful Pomegranates
powdered sugar as needed

Cinnamon French Toast: Score 1 to 2 fresh pomegranates and place in a bowl of water, break open the pomegranates under water to free the arils (seed sacs), the arils will sink to the bottom of the bowl and the membrane will float to the top, sieve and put the arils in a separate bowl, reserve 1 cup of the arils from fruit and set aside, (refrigerate or freeze remaining arils for another use), in a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk (or soymilk), vanilla extract, cinnamon and nutmeg, place the bread slices in a flat casserole dish, and cover with the egg mixture, let soak for 5 to 10 minutes, melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a 12" nonstick skillet over medium-high heat, add the slices of the soaked bread to the pan and cook until golden brown, about 4 minutes per side, top the cinnamon French toast with the warm pomegranate apple compote, sprinkle with powdered sugar and garnish with fresh pomegranate arils.

POM Apple Compote: Prepare fresh pomegranate juice*, heat pomegranate juice in a small saucepan over medium heat until it simmers, turn off heat; add sliced vanilla bean and dried cherries. Let rest for 15 minutes until cherries are plump, scrape vanilla beans out of the pod and add them back into the compote; discard the remaining pod, heat a 12" skillet over medium-high heat, melt 1 tablespoon of butter in the pan and add the sliced apples, cook the apples until they begin to soften but still hold their shape, about 5 to 6 minutes, add the maple syrup to the apples along with the pomegranate juice with the cherries, simmer until the juice reduces to syrup, about 5 to 8 minutes

Our Take: Delicious is one word that was heard, thanks mom was another