A
fresh poached pear recipe served with cinnamon cranberry sauce.
Pears are boiled in orange juice and topped with a fresh homemade
cranberry sauce. Serve poached pears for breakfast, brunch or as a
dessert to a main course meal.
If you are looking for lighter
fare, this fruit recipe can be used as a side dish for a
hearty breakfast or as a light dessert to a beef, chicken, or fish
dinner.
You
won't believe how good your kitchen will smell when you make this
poached pear recipe! The scent of cinnamon, orange juice and pears
boiling in a pot on the stove will have everyone heading for the
kitchen asking if it is time to eat. View
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Poached Pear Recipe
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4 Bartlett or other green
pears, halved, cored 1 quart of Orange juice 1
cinnamon stick
======Cinnamon Cranberry
Sauce======
1 cup sugar 1 cup water 1
12 ounce package fresh or frozen cranberries 1/4 teaspoon
cinnamon
Kitchen
Equipment Needed
Dutch oven or
large stock pot
Instructions:
Step
1: Place cored pear halves, cut-side up, in bottom of a Dutch
oven.
Step 2:
Add enough orange juice to cover. Add cinnamon stick. Bring to boil
over medium heat, cover pan, reduce heat to simmer and cook 10 to 15
minutes, until the pears are tender.
Step 3:
Remove pan from heat. Cool pears in liquid. Refrigerate in juice until
chilled. Will keep up to 1 week.
Step 4:
Just before serving, make sauce following the instructions below.
Step
5:
To serve poached pears: place each pear half in a dessert bowl or on a
dessert plate. Spoon cranberry sauce into the well of each pear and
then drizzle a little more in an overall fashion over the entire pear.
Garnish with a sprig of mint if desired.
Cranberry
Sauce Instructions:
Step
1: Mix sugar and water in a medium saucepan; stir to dissolve
sugar.
Step 2: Bring to a boil;
add cranberries. Return to a boil, reduce heat; boil gently 10 minutes
stirring occasionally.
Step 3:
Remove from heat. Cool completely at room temperature and refrigerate.
Makes about 2 1/4 cups of cranberry sauce for your poached pears.