Vanilla Vino Poached Pears

Pears accept ever been 1 of my favorite fruits.  There’s but something nigh biting into a ripe pear while trying to proceed the juice from running downward your chin.  Pears genuinely gustatory modality a niggling sweeter when cooked and maintain a lovely texture, thus they’re perfect for desserts. 

Since we’re trying to salvage room for a dessert each weekend and keep a well for y'all lifestyle, whatever dessert starring fruit catches my eye.   This recipe from Alton Brown seems thus elegant but totally unproblematic to make.  The ingredients are few, the flavour is wonderful in addition to it’s certain to print your guests.

All y'all bespeak is iv pears, a bottle of Riesling wine, vanilla infused saccharide (regular granulated is fine too) in addition to a vanilla bean. 

This is why I dearest my macro lens.  Split the fresh vanilla edible bean inward one-half in addition to scrape out the pulp.  I am fascinated amongst these tiny niggling beans of intense vanilla flavor!

I proceed previously used (and dried) vanilla beans inward a jolt amongst saccharide for especial desserts similar this.  Easy vanilla sugar! 

Using a spud peeler, peel the peel from the pears leaving the stalk intact.  Set aside.

In a 3 or iv quart saucepan combine the bottle of wine, sugar, vanilla edible bean in addition to pulp. 

Heat on medium-high heat.

While the vino mixture is heating up, heart in addition to mortal the pears from the bottom removing all the seeds.  You don’t accept to become all the agency to the transcend close the stalk to larn all the seeds.

Once cored y'all tin plough over the sack piece a sparse piece off the bottom to assistance it sit down upright if needed.

Once the vino mixture is boiling, decrease the oestrus to medium depression in addition to add together the pears to the pot.  Cover in addition to railroad train for xxx minutes or until the pears are tender but non mushy.  Keep the mixture simmering gently.  

Remove the pears to a serving dish or pie plate.  The pears should move standing upright.  Place the pears inward the refrigerator.

Remove the vanilla edible bean from the vino mixture in addition to increase the oestrus to high.  You desire to bring down the liquid to nigh 1 loving cup if possible.  (I ended upwardly amongst 1 3/4 cups of syrup.)  Boil for nigh twenty to 25 minutes but exercise non allow the syrup to plough nighttime brown.   Remove the syrup to a oestrus proof container in addition to refrigerate for nigh 1 threescore minutes or until railroad train to serve.

When railroad train to serve, take the pears from the fridge in addition to house on a serving dish.  Drizzle amongst the reduced syrup in addition to serve.  If y'all desire to garnish the pears amongst a niggling fresh mint, purpose a skewer to brand a pocket-size hole listen the stem.  Insert the mint leaving the stalk intact. 

So unproblematic nevertheless thus elegant!

See all those lovely niggling vanilla beans?  Yum!

Another agency to serve the pears is to piece each whole pear almost to the stalk in addition to thus fan out the pieces on a serving plate.  Serve amongst a scoop of vanilla edible bean H2O ice cream drizzled amongst the vino reduction sauce.  Oh aye baby!

Tender, sweet, cool pears. 

Don’t forget to salvage room for this dessert!

Vanilla & Wine Poached Pears

(adapted from a recipe yesteryear Alton Brown on Foodnetwork.com 2005)

1 bottle of white wine, Riesling

1 loving cup water

3/4 loving cup vanilla sugar

1 whole vanilla bean, split upwardly in addition to pulp removed

4 theatre Bosc pears, peeled leaving stalk intact (Anjou or Bartlett are fine too)

Add the wine, water, vanilla sugar, vanilla edible bean in addition to pulp to a 3 or 4-quart saucepan.  Heat on medium-high in addition to convey to a boil.

While the vino mixture is heating up, heart in addition to mortal the pears from the bottom to take all seeds.  Once the vino is boiling, bring down the oestrus to medium-low in addition to gently add together the pears to the saucepan.  Cover in addition to railroad train for xxx minutes or until the pears are tender but non mushy.  Maintain a gentle simmer spell cooking the pears.  Remove the pears to a serving dish standing them upright, in addition to house inward the refrigerator.

Remove the vanilla edible bean from the vino mixture in addition to increase the oestrus to high.  Reduce the syrup to to a greater extent than or less 1 loving cup of liquid, to a greater extent than or less 20-25 minutes.  Do non allow the syrup to larn a nighttime brown.  Remove it from the oestrus in addition to house inward a heatproof bowl in addition to refrigerate for at to the lowest degree an threescore minutes or until cool. 

Remove the pears from the fridge in addition to spoon the sauce on top.  Serve!

Thanks thus much for stopping by!  Hope y'all accept this MLK vacation off from work.  Enjoy! 

Tricia

Source: savingdessert.com