Pears poached in red wine
6 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | mediums | Anjou, Bosc or other pears |
| 1 | small | Orange |
| 6 | Whole cloves | |
| 4 | cups | Dry red wine |
| 1 | cup | Plus 2 tbs sugar |
| 1/2 stick cinnamon | ||
Directions
With a potato peeler, remove about half of the peel from the pears, leaving vertical strips of peel intact and giving the fruit a striped appearance. Stud the unpeeled orange with the cloves. Combine the wine, sugar, cinnamon stick, and orange in a stock pot. Bring the mixture to a boil and add the pears. Lower the heat to a simmer and cook the pears for about 30 minutes or until they are tender. Cool the mixture and chill the pears in the cooking liquid.
To serve, put 1 whole pear on each serving plate with 1-2 tbs of the wine sauce around each pear.
Vincent's Cookbook by Vincent Guerithault ISBN 0-89815-566-5 pg 214 Submitted By DIANE LAZARUS On 07-14-95