Poached Pears In Spiced Red Wine
This recipe for Vanilla Poached Pears offers a delightful combination of flavors with the richness of vanilla, warmth of cinnamon, and the subtle herbaceous note of fresh thyme perfectly complementing the sweet, tender pears. The pears are poached in a fragrant red wine syrup infused with these aromatics, resulting in a beautifully elegant dessert that is sure to impress your guests.
— Constant Cookbook
Ingredients
- 1 vanilla pod
- 1 bottle red wine
- 225g caster sugar
- 1 cinnamon stick , halved
- fresh thyme sprig , plus sprigs to seve
- 6 pears , peeled, but kept whole with stalk intact
Instructions
- Halve the vanilla pod lengthways, scrape out the black seeds and put in a large saucepan with the wine, sugar, cinnamon and thyme. Cut each piece of pod into three long thin strips, add to pan, then lower in the pears.
- Poach the pears, covered, for 20-30 mins, making sure they are covered in the wine. The cooking time will very much depend on the ripeness of your pears – they should be tender all the way through when pierced with a cocktail stick. You can make these up to 2 days ahead and chill.
- Take the pears from the pan, then boil the liquid to reduce it by half so that it’s syrupy. Serve each pear with the cooled syrup, a strip of vanilla, a piece of cinnamon and a small thyme sprig.
Cook Time
30M
Prep Time
PT20M
Yield
Serves 6
Nutrition
- Calories: 235 calories
- Carbohydrate Content: 51 grams carbohydrates
- Sugar Content: 51 grams sugar
- Fiber Content: 2 grams fiber
- Sodium Content: 0.3 milligram of sodium
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