Ingredients:
3/4 Bottle of red wine
4 dessert pears
100gms sugar
1 Cinnamon stick
1 Star Anise
Whipping cream
Method:
Peel the pears, leaving them whole, and stalks attached. Carefully core using an apple corer from the bottom of the pear, if you have one (leave uncored if not).
In a small saucepan, heat the wine and stir in and dissolve the sugar.
Break the Cinnamon stick into two, and add it as well as the Star Anise and the pears to the wine.
Simmer gently for about an hour, until pears are tender.
Remove the pears and Cinnamon, return liquid to the heat and reduce to about 1/3 by boiling.
To Serve:
Whip cream until very firm.
Place warm pear upright in dessert dish, spoon red wine sauce around it, and then add a dessert spoonful of cream to the dish.
3/4 Bottle of red wine
4 dessert pears
100gms sugar
1 Cinnamon stick
1 Star Anise
Whipping cream
Method:
Peel the pears, leaving them whole, and stalks attached. Carefully core using an apple corer from the bottom of the pear, if you have one (leave uncored if not).
In a small saucepan, heat the wine and stir in and dissolve the sugar.
Break the Cinnamon stick into two, and add it as well as the Star Anise and the pears to the wine.
Simmer gently for about an hour, until pears are tender.
Remove the pears and Cinnamon, return liquid to the heat and reduce to about 1/3 by boiling.
To Serve:
Whip cream until very firm.
Place warm pear upright in dessert dish, spoon red wine sauce around it, and then add a dessert spoonful of cream to the dish.
