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Poached pears in red wine

Name: Poached pears in red wine
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: British
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

Sara Buenfeld

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Serves 6

Easy

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 30 mins

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Try this recipe for poached pears, drenched in a cinnamon-spiced red wine. This low-fat dessert is perfect for dinner party entertaining.

Easily doubled

Easily halved

Vegetarian

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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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

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal235
fat0g
saturates0g
carbs51g
sugars51g
fibre2g
protein0g
salt0.3g

low

Method

step 1

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.
step 2

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.
step 3

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.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2008

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