Pears In Red Wine Served With Vanilla Sauce
What you'll need to get:
Serves 6
For the Pears:
- 6 Pears, Firm but not unripe.
- 110ml smooth, soft red wine plus 50ml water.
- 100g of white sugar
- One cinnamon stick
For the Vanilla Sauce:
- 100g Icing Sugar.
- 50g LURPAK Unsalted butter (room temperature).
- 1 large egg.
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract.
What you need to do:
For the Pears:
Peel the Pears taking the eye out of bottom, but leave the stalks on. Add all the ingredients to a oven proof saucepan. Cook in the oven with the lid on for 45 min to 1 hour 15 mins. at 135°C, 120° Fan. Turn the pears a couple of times during the cooking - the firmness of the fruit will dictate the cooking time. Once the pears are tender, remove the cinnamon stick and pears with a slatted spoon and place on a serving dish, leaving the liquid behind. Carefully place the pan on the hob. Boil the remaining liquid until it reduces to a syrup. Pour the syrup over the pears and cool to room temperature until needed.
For the Vanilla Sauce:
Whisk the butter until smooth with an electric whisk and beat in the icing sugar. Add egg yolk and vanilla essence and beat until well blended. Cook the sauce in a double boiler until the yolk has slightly thickened. Whisk the egg white until slightly stiff and fold into the mixture. Serve the sauce warm with the pears.
And another thing...
This dish will keep several days in the fridge. It is a good way of using hard pears from your garden!