Name: Chocolate pear crisp
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 3 ripe pears; juice ½ lemon; 1 tbsp light muscovado sugar; 4 tsp Poire William liqueur or cognac (optional); 50g icing sugar; 1 tbsp cocoa powder; 25g ground almond; 1 egg white

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Chocolate pear crisp

Chocolate pear crisp

Mary Cadogan

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Serves 4

Easy

Prep: 10 mins

Cook: 45 mins

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This delicious pud is lovely and rich, you’d never guess it contains zero saturated fat!

Easily doubled

Easily halved

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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3 ripe pears
juice ½ lemon
1 tbsp light muscovado sugar
4 tsp Poire William liqueur or cognac

(optional)

For the topping

50g icing sugar
1 tbsp cocoa powder
25g ground almond
1 egg white

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal140
fat4g
saturates0g
carbs26g
sugars25g
fibre2g
protein2g
salt0.03g

low

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Chop the pears into small pieces and put in a pan with the lemon juice and sugar. Bring to the boil, then cover and cook for 10 mins. Uncover, then cook for 8-10 mins more until the juices thicken up. Spoon into 4 x 150ml ramekins and add a teaspoon of liqueur to each, if using.
step 2

For the topping, sift the icing sugar and cocoa into a bowl, then stir in the almonds. Whisk the egg white until stiff, then fold into the dry ingredients. Spoon over the pears and shake the ramekins to level the mixture. Bake for 20-25 mins until the topping is firm to the touch. Serve warm or cold.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2008

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