Dessert Wine Poached Pears Recipe

Pears poached in dessert wine with golden raisins, honey and cardamom.

Dessert Wine Poached Pears Recipe

Poached pears are a classic recipe for the ever-popular autumnal fruit; this one is poached in the famous Hungarian Dessert wine, Tokaj, with honey and cardamom.

Course Dessert

Cuisine European

Diet Vegetarian

Keyword pears poached in wine, poached pears, poached pears dessert, poached pears in wine

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 40

Total Time 50

Servings Servings

Calories 736kcal

Author Brian Jones

Ingredients

2 Pears
500 ml Dessert Wine ½ Cup
250 ml Water 1 Cup
6 Cardamom Pods
40 g Honey 2 tablespoon
1 Vanilla Pod
30 g Golden Raisins ¼ Cup
125 ml Double cream ½ Cup
1 tablespoon Icing Sugar (powdered sugar in the US)

Instructions

Add the wine, water, honey and cardamom pods to a 20cm or 8" saucepan and bring it to a low simmer.
Cut the vanilla pod in half lengthways and scrape out the seeds. Set them aside and add the vanilla pod to the wine and honey mix.
Peel the pears, cut them in half lengthways, then remove the core and the root. Drop them into the wine syrup and allow them to gently poach until soft; this will take around 25 minutes.
When the pears are soft, remove them from the heat and pour off half of the liquid into a small 15cm or 6" saucepan.
Add the raisins into the pan with the pears and allow to cool with a lid on for 20 minutes.
Reduce the poaching liquid that you have drained off by three-quarters and set aside.
5 minutes before you are ready to serve, whip the cream, sift in the powdered sugar and add the vanilla seeds and stir to combine.
Serve with the raisins in the cavity left by the core, drizzle with the reserved stock and finally add a dollop of Chantilly cream.

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