Chocolate Pears with Wine Syrup
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Difficulty:
easy
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Preparation:
30 min.
Preparation
ready in 45 min.
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Healthy, because
Even smarter
These chocolate pears are a good source of nutrients like vitamin C and potassium.
If you don't like the taste of alcohol, you can omit the red wine sauce.
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Ingredients
for
4
- Ingredients
- 4 large, firm Pear (peeled)
- 1 lemon (juice)
- 3 ½ ozs plain Dark chocolate (60 % cocoa solids)
- 3 ½ ozs good quality white chocolate
- bay leaves
- For the syrup
- ⅜ cup dry white wine
- 3 Tbsps sugar
- 1 cup chopped Candied fruit
- 2 Tbsps butter
Preparation steps
1.
Heat the oven to 375°F. Line a baking tray with non-stick baking paper.
2.
Leave the stalks on the pears, level off the bases and drizzle with lemon juice.
3.
Place the pears on a the baking tray and bake for about 15 minutes, until tender. Remove from the oven and leave to cool.
4.
Melt the chocolate in separate heatproof bowls over a pan of simmering (not boiling) water.
5.
Dip 2 pears into the plain chocolate and 2 pears into the white chocolate.
6.
Attach the bay leaves to the stalks and leave to set on non-stick baking paper.
7.
For the syrup: heat the wine and sugar in a pan until the sugar has dissolved. Bring to a boil and simmer until the liquid has a syrupy consistency. Add the candied peel and butter and leave to cool.
8.
Arrange the pears on a serving plate and drizzle a little of the syrup around the pears.