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Pears Baked in Red Wine with Cardamom Cream
Cooking Time 1.25 hours Minutes
Ingredients
14
Portions
3-4
Ingredients
14 Total- 6-8 pears
- 275 ml good quality red wine
- 25 g Country Range Unsalted Butter
- 75 g light demerara sugar
- 1 tsp Country Range Ground Ginger
- 2 Country Range Cinnamon Sticks
- 2 Country Range Whole Star Anise
- 1 tsp whole pimento
- 6 Country Range Whole Cloves
- 3 Country Range Cardamom Pods
- For the cardamom cream:
- 275 ml double cream
- ½ tsp ground cardamom
- 1 tbsp caster sugar
Method
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1
Step 1
Pre-heat oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas Mark 6. Peel the pears and cut a thin slices from the bottom of each one so they sit up in a casserole dish. -
2
Step 2
Pour over the wine and add the whole spices. Cut the butter into cubes and place a cube on top of each pear. -
3
Step 3
Sprinkle over the sugar, cover with foil or a lid and bake in the oven for 30 minutes. -
4
Step 4
Remove the dish from the oven and baste the pears with the juice. Return the dish to the oven uncovered for 40 minutes or until the pears are soft. -
5
Step 5
For the cardamom cream, whisk the double cream until it forms soft peaks. Gently combine the sugar and ground cardamom. -
6
Step 6
Serve with the warm pears and a drizzle of the juice from the casserole dish.
Ingredients
14 Total- 6-8 pears
- 275 ml good quality red wine
- 25 g Country Range Unsalted Butter
- 75 g light demerara sugar
- 1 tsp Country Range Ground Ginger
- 2 Country Range Cinnamon Sticks
- 2 Country Range Whole Star Anise
- 1 tsp whole pimento
- 6 Country Range Whole Cloves
- 3 Country Range Cardamom Pods
- For the cardamom cream:
- 275 ml double cream
- ½ tsp ground cardamom
- 1 tbsp caster sugar
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