Chocolate Sauce Filled Poached Pear
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Difficulty:
easy
Difficulty
Preparation:
15 min.
Preparation
ready in 50 min.
Ready in
Ingredients
for
4
- Ingredients
- 4 Pear
- ½ untreated lemon (juice and peel)
- 2 cups dry white wine
- ½ cup sugar (scant)
- 1 tsp freshly grated ginger
- ½ Cinnamon stick
- 2 Tbsps Poppy seeds
- For the sauce
- 3 ½ ozs dark Chocolate couverture (approx. 70 % cocoa solids)
- 4 tsps Pear brandy
- 1 Tbsp cream (at least 30 % fat)
Preparation
Kitchen utensils
1 Cutting board, 1 Small knife, 1 Large knife, 1 Small bowl, 1 Bowl, 1 Tablespoon, 1 Citrus juicer, 2 Plates, 1 Teaspoon
Preparation steps
1.
Peel and core the pears. Squeeze the lemon and immediately sprinkle the pears with the juice. Put the wine into a pan with the sugar, ginger, cinnamon and lemon peel and bring to the boil. Add the pears and poach for 4-5 minutes, depending on the ripeness of the fruit. Leave the pears to cool in the poaching liquid.
2.
Chop the chocolate and melt over a low heat with the pear brandy and cream, stirring constantly.
3.
Sprinkle the pears with poppy seeds and place on plates. Fill the pears with chocolate sauce and serve.
