Coffee Poached Pears with Curried Honey
From jo_jo_ba 16 years ago
- 25 minutes to make
- Serves 2
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 more unexpected layer of flavour!
Ingredients
- 2 cups strong coffee shopping list
- 1/3 cup brown sugar shopping list
- 2 large ripe pears, peeled, halved, seed pods and stems removed shopping list
- 3 Tbs. honey shopping list
- 1/4 tsp. curry powder shopping list
- Generous grind of freshly ground black pepper shopping list
- Small edible flowers or mint sprigs for garnish shopping list
How to make it
- In medium skillet, bring coffee and brown sugar to a boil.
- Slip four pear halves into sauce, and bring back to a boil. Turn heat down to slow simmer, and cover pan.
- 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.
- Remove from heat, and let pears sit in hot poaching liquid, 10 minutes.
- With slotted spoon or spatula, remove fruit from skillet, and place on two dessert plates. Cover and chill.
- In small pan, heat honey, curry powder and pepper until honey is hot.
- Cool honey sauce to room temperature.
- To serve, drizzle honey sauce over pears
The Rating
Reviewed by 2 people-
Coffee AND pears! Great!! A wonderful combination of flavors you've offered here. I MUST do this one!
deliathecrone
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