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Poached Pears with Chocolate-Pear Sauce

By Gail Conde

4.4

(41)

Melting the chocolate in the pear poaching liquid makes an instant sauce.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Makes 8 servings

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

Preparation

  1. Step 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.

    Step 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.

TagsFruit DessertDessertWhite WineWineAlcoholBeveragesPearFruitChocolateGluten FreeNut FreeQuickEasyMake AheadPoachBon Appétit
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