Recipe: Apple-noodle kugel with ginger-caramel sauce

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1. Heat a large saucepan of salted water to a boil. Heat oven to 350degrees. Melt butter in a 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat;add apples. Cook, stirring, 2 minutes. Add 2 tablespoons of thesugar; toss. Cook until apples are golden, but still slightly firm,5 minutes. Transfer to a baking sheet to cool. Add noodles toboiling water; cook until just tender, 8 minutes. Drain; rinse withcold water. Set aside.

2. Meanwhile, whisk the eggs in a large bowl; add the remaining 1/2cup of the sugar, cream cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream,raisins, vanilla, cinnamon and salt; mix well. Add drained noodlesto mixture; gently combine.

3. Transfer half of the noodle mixture into a buttered 13-by-9-inchbaking dish. Scatter apples over noodles; top with the remainingnoodle mixture. For topping, combine the corn flakes, sugar andcinnamon in a small bowl. Sprinkle this mixture over the noodles;drizzle with melted butter. Bake until set and browned, 40-50minutes; cool to warm.

4. Meanwhile, for sauce, combine ginger, sugar and water in a small,heavy saucepan. Cook over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Raiseheat to medium-high; heat the liquid to a boil. Cook withoutstirring until mixture turns a dark amber, 6-8 minutes. Remove panfrom heat; slowly add cream. (Use caution; mixture will boilviolently.) Return to medium heat; cook until thick and smooth, 6-8minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla and butter. Cut kugelinto squares. Serve with sauce.


Nutrition information per serving: 783 calories, 46% of calories from fat, 41 g fat, 24 g saturatedfat, 290 mg cholesterol, 90 g carbohydrates, 17 g protein, 364 mgsodium, 3 g fiber