Pears de Noel


Serves: 6
Total Calories: 196

Ingredients

2 cups dry red wine
1 cup water
3/4 cup sugar
6 whole cloves
1 cinnamon stick, broken in half
1 tablespoon grated orange peel
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
6 large firm pears
1 1/2 cups chocolate syrup
1 tablespoon orange-flavored liqueur
mint leaves for garnish

Directions:

Cook wine, water, sugar, cloves, cinnamon stick, orange peel, and vanilla over medium-high heat for 10 minutes in a large saucepan. While this is cooking, peel the pears, leaving stem on. Place pears in wine mixture, reduce heat to simmer, and poach pears for 10 minutes. Remove pan from heat and let pears cool to room temperature in syrup. Remove pears from syrup and chill in refrigerator at least an hour.

Mix chocolate syrup with orange liqueur and spoon onto dessert plates. Place a pear on top of chocolate; garnish with mint leaves.

Nutritional Facts:

Serves: 6
Total Calories: 196
Calories from Fat: 0

This Pears de Noel recipe is from the Recipe Hall of Fame Fresh from the Farmers Market Cookbook Cookbook. Download this Cookbook today.


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