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Roasted Pears With Bleu Cheese Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Pixarfreak / All my dishes 11 months, 4 weeks ago This dish sets the dinner mood. Pears stiffed with cranberries, walnuts and Bleu cheese. So fancy but so easy. Barefoot Contessa recipe. Prep:15m Cook:30m Servings:6	Pixarfreak
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Ingredients

3 Anjou pears

3 lemons, juiced

3 oz Bleu cheese

1/4 c dried cranberries

1/4 c toasted walnuts then chopped

1/2 c apple juice

1 T brandy

2 T honey

1/4 c extra virgin olive oil

mixed greens (spinach, butternut and leaf)

Kosher salt

Directions

Heat oven to 375

Cut pears in half lengthwise, core center at seeds, remove stem area Rub pears with a cut lemon to prevent browning

Mix together cheese, cranberries and walnuts

Fill pear core with mixture and pile slightly high

Place in a baking dish, slightly crowding

Mix together apple juice, brandy and honey

Pour over pears into baking dish

Bake for 30 minutes

Prepare the mixed greens and sprinkle with Kosher salt. Whisk together lemon juice, 1/4 c baking liquid and olive oil. Top the greens with dressing and a roasted pear half.

Enjoy!

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pixarfreak 11 months, 4 weeks ago said:
I adapted this recipe from Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics cookbook. The original called for 3 T of Port and 1/3 c of brown sugar; I used brandy and honey instead.
The mixed greens were an alternative as well. The original called for baby arugula.

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