Poached pear and dried apricots with chocolate sauce
1 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ¼ | cup | Sugar |
| 1 | tablespoon | Dark rum |
| 1 | large | Pear |
| 6 | Whole dried apricots; chopped | |
| ½ | ounce | Fine-quality bittersweet chocolate; chopped |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Vanilla |
Directions
In a heavy saucepan combine the sugar, the rum, and ½ cup water and simmer the mixture for 2 minutes. Add the pear, peeled, halved, and cored, and the apricots and poach the fruit, covered, spooning the syrup over the pear occasionally, for 8 to 10 minutes, or until the pear is tender. In a small heavy saucepan combine the chocolate, 2 tablespoons water, and the vanilla and heat the mixture over low heat, stirring constantly, until it is smooth. Transfer the pear halves to a work surface, cut them diagonally, into ¼-inch-thick slices, and fan them onto 2 plates. Sprinkle the apricots over the pear slices and spoon the chocolate sauce around the fruit.
Serves 2.
Gourmet September 1991
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