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Coffee Poached Pears With Curried Honey Recipe


Coffee  Poached Pears With Curried Honey Recipe
The perfect ending to a delicious Valentine’s Day meal, this light and luscious fruit dessert has a twist—an unusual honey sauce flavored with curry powder. Curry powder goes well with nearly any fruit, and adding fresh black pepper imparts one m... More

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Ingredients
  • 2 cups strong coffee
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar
  • 2 large ripe pears, peeled, halved, seed pods and stems removed
  • 3 Tbs. honey
  • 1/4 tsp. curry powder
  • Generous grind of freshly ground black pepper
  • Small edible flowers or mint sprigs for garnish

Directions
  1. In medium skillet, bring coffee and brown sugar to a boil.
  2. Slip four pear halves into sauce, and bring back to a boil. Turn heat down to slow simmer, and cover pan.
  3. After 3 minutes, gently turn pears over with tongs, and continue poaching until tender but not pulpy, 8 to 15 minutes depending on ripeness of pears. Test tenderness with skewer.
  4. Remove from heat, and let pears sit in hot poaching liquid, 10 minutes.
  5. With slotted spoon or spatula, remove fruit from skillet, and place on two dessert plates. Cover and chill.
  6. In small pan, heat honey, curry powder and pepper until honey is hot.
  7. Cool honey sauce to room temperature.
  8. To serve, drizzle honey sauce over pears

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Comments


Mmmm...This sounds absolutely delicious and I will definately try cooking it sometime very soon!
-CeriM


I wish I could have Caffeine so I could try this.I love Pears and curry.


OK. You got me :) Going to have to try this to see how the flavours work....BUT, I bet they work wonderfully, just as you said...
Thank you for posting such a unique recipe JJB :)


How unusual, must try it !!


Amount Per Serving
Calories: 359.2
Total Fat: 0.9 g
Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
Sodium: 20.3 mg
Total Carbs: 93.2 g
Dietary Fiber: 5.1 g
Protein: 1.2 g


Coffee AND pears! Great!! A wonderful combination of flavors you've offered here. I MUST do this one!


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