Sweet Treats

24 Feb

PINK MOSCATO POACHED PEARS

I have been wanting to have a go at making poached pears for a while now and decided to finally give it ago. Most recipes I came across used champagne or sparkling white wine, I however decided to use a bottle of pink moscato I had lying around and much to my surprised much enjoyed the final result. The recipe I used is below and is adapted from here. Enjoy!

What you need:
6 ripe, peeled pears with the stalks left in
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
2 cups pink moscato (I used Santaro Moscato Rose)
2 cups mineral water
1/4 cup honey
1/2 caster sugar
1 vanilla bean, split down the centre

What to do:
Coat your pears in the lemon juice to stop browning. In a large saucepan combine together your moscato, water, sugar honey and vanilla. Simmer until your sugar has fully dissolved and increase your heat to medium. Add your pears and cook for about 20 minutes or until your pears are tender. Serve with your poaching liquid. Serves 6.

About these ads

2 Responses to “Sweet Treats”

  1. Sinead February 24, 2013 at 6:46 am #

    I love pears - these look amazing :-)

  2. Annie February 27, 2013 at 4:42 am #

    I like pears!

Your 2 cents!

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Google+ photo

You are commenting using your Google+ account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 6,358 other followers

%d bloggers like this: