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Pears in Red Wine
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If you want the traditional pears poached in French fashion in red wine, the microwave oven cooks the red wine syrup in short order and the pears even more quickly. I don’t like the pears too sweet, but you can increase the sugar to 2 cups. (This poaching syrup can be used for other fruits, such as peaches.) The pears will darken in color the longer they are allowed to sit in the syrup. I have allowed ½ pear per person, thinking you might want to serve each portion with some cinnamon ice cream, or with some creme anglaise .
Yield :
Serves 4
Ingredients
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 cups red wine
- 1 piece cinnamon stick, 1½ inches long
- 4 whole allspice berries
- Pinch freshly grated nutmeg
- 1 cardamom pod, crushed
- 2 whole cloves
- 2 Bosc pears (7 to 8 ounces each), peeled, cored and halved
Directions
1. Combine all ingredients except pears in an 8-cup glass measure. Cook, uncovered, at 100% for 3 minutes. Stir well. Cover tightly with microwave plastic wrap. Cook at 100% for 5 minutes longer.
2. Remove from oven. Arrange pears in an 8½” × 7” × 2½” dish, cored side up, alternating wide and narrow ends. Pour liquid over pears. Cover tightly with microwave plastic wrap. Cook at 100% for 12 minutes.
3. Remove from oven and pierce plastic with the tip of a sharp knife. Cool pears in syrup. Serve pears with a little of the syrup.
Notes
To poach 1 pear: Halve all ingredients, cooking syrup for 2 minutes 30 seconds; cook pears in syrup for 3 minutes.
To poach 4 pears: Double all ingredients, cooking syrup for 4 minutes; cook pears in syrup for 17 minutes.
© 1987 Barbara Kafka
Nutritional Information
Nutrients per serving (% daily value)
138kcal (7%)
2mg (0%)
31g
3g
0g (0%)
0g
0g (0%)
0g
0g
0mg (0%)
24g
0g
11mg
171mg
1mcg RAE (0%)
5mg (8%)
13mg (1%)
0mg (2%)
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