Poached Pears with Chocolate-Pear Sauce |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 0 Minutes |
Ready In: 0 Minutes Servings: 8 |
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Melting the chocolate in the pear poaching liquid makes an instant sauce. Ingredients:
1 cup pear nectar |
1 cup dry white wine |
1/2 cup sugar |
4 slightly under-ripe pears, peeled, halved, cored |
4 ounces bittersweet (not unsweetened) or semisweet chocolate, chopped |
vanilla ice cream |
Directions:
1. Stir pear nectar, white wine and sugar in heavy large saucepan over medium-high heat until sugar dissolves and syrup comes to boil. Add pears to syrup in saucepan. Cover pan, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until pears are tender, about 8 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer pears to plate. Increase heat to medium-high and boil poaching liquid until reduced to 3/4 cup, about 8 minutes. Remove pan from heat. Add chocolate; whisk until chocolate melts and sauce is smooth.
2. Place 1 warm pear half, cut side up, on each plate. Top with vanilla ice cream and warm chocolate sauce. Or cover pears and chocolate sauce separately and refrigerate up to 2 days; then serve pears cold with ice cream and sauce, rewarming sauce, if desired.
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