Recipe

Red Wine Poached Pears with Chocolate Filling

Name: Red Wine Poached Pears with Chocolate Filling
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 155 min
Total time: 165 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 4 large firm pears - peeled, cored, and quartered; ½ cup white sugar; peel of 1 orange; 1 cinnamon stick; 1 (750 milliliter) bottle red wine

A simple, but delicious recipe for poached pears in red wine. You only need a handful of ingredients. You can eat the pears as a dessert, warm or cold, but in the Netherlands we traditionally eat stewed pears as a side dish for Christmas. I prefer them cold.

Prep 10mCook 155mTotal 165mServes 4

Ingredients

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Instructions

1
Place pears in a saucepan. Add sugar, orange peel, and cinnamon stick. Pour in red wine to cover pears completely. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer gently until pears are soft and deep red in color, about 2 1/2 hours.
2
Transfer pears to a serving plate using a slotted spoon. Serve the pears warm or cold.

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