Poached pears in spiced red wine
Ingredients
- Step 1 1 vanilla pod
- Step 2 1 bottle red wine
- Step 3 225g caster sugar
- Step 4 1 cinnamon stick, halved
- Step 5 fresh thyme sprig, plus sprigs to seve
- Step 6 6 pears, peeled, but kept whole with stalk intact
Calories: 235
Carbohydrate: 51 g
Protein: g
Fat: g
Cook time: 50 minutes
Prep time: minutes
Total time: 50 minutes
Servings: 6
TAGS
Dessert
Dinner
British
Alcohol
Booze
Cinnamon stick
Cinnamon stick
Dessert
Entertaining
Fat free
Festive
Mulled wine
New Year
Pear
Pear
Pudding
Red Wine
Sara Buenfeld
Thyme
Directions
- 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.