Pears in red wine with blackcurrant


Pears in red wine with blackcurrant
Pears cooked until soft in a red wine and blackcurrant syrup, served with the reduced syrup and custard sauce (crème anglaise).
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Last modified on: February 21th 2011
For 6 people, you will need:

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Times for this recipe
Preparation: 55 min.
Resting: 1 hour
Cooking: 40 min.
All in all: 2 hours 35 min.
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Stage 1 - 3 min.
Pears in red wine with blackcurrant
In a pan, pour 750 ml red wine, 250 ml blackcurrant liqueur and 100 g caster sugar.

Stage 2
Pears in red wine with blackcurrant
For each pears, one by one: peel, cut in two, remove core and if necessary fiber around tail.

Stage 3 - 20 min.
Pears in red wine with blackcurrant
Put immediately the half in syrup to prevent from blackening.

Proceed so with all pears.

Stage 4 - 15 min.
Pears in red wine with blackcurrant
Put pan on low fire, add 1 vanilla pod, and make cook pears uncovered until they are well soft.

Let cool in the syrup, covered this time, if possible during all night.

Stage 5 - 1 hour
Pears in red wine with blackcurrant
Tomorrow, remove pears from syrup, put in another container, and covered by a half of syrup.

Cover and let wait at ambient temperature.

Stage 6 - 20 min.
Pears in red wine with blackcurrant
Put back pan on low fire, and make reduce a half volume.

Stage 7 - 2 min.
Pears in red wine with blackcurrant
When syrup is reduced, pour through a fine strainer, in a smaller pan.

Stage 8 - 5 min.
Pears in red wine with blackcurrant
Bring to boil and add 2 pinches agar-agar, mix well with a fork, and remove from fire.

Let thicken when cooling.

Stage 9
Pears in red wine with blackcurrant
A bit before serving, cut half pears from top to bottom in several thin parts.

Stage 10 - 20 min.
Pears in red wine with blackcurrant
The goal is not to cut half-part, but to make a kind of hand-held fan, you should start from top but leaving about half inch uncut.

Put a half pear by service plate, and spread cuts to shape the hand-held fan.

Stage 11 - 10 min.
Pears in red wine with blackcurrant
Fill one plate side with custard sauce (crème anglaise) and the other one with cooking syrup.

Decorate with a mint leaf.
Remarks
If you don't have agar-agar you can use corn-flour instead.
Keeping: Several days in the fridge, in their cooking juice.
Source: Home made.
Nutritional information
Proteins (gr)Carbohydrates (gr)Fats (gr)Energy value (in k-calories)Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe50 RDI=20 %340 RDI=30 %60 RDI=9 %2,710 RDI=140 %11,350 RDI: 140 %
Per 100 g2 RDI=1 %20 RDI=2 %3 RDI=0 %150 RDI=7 %620 RDI: 7 %
Per person7 RDI=3 %60 RDI=5 %9 RDI=1 %450 RDI=20 %1,890 RDI: 20 %
The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman Change to a man
Possible allergens in this recipe: Sulfites, Milk, egg
How much will it cost?
  • For 6 people : 12.15 €
  • Per person : 2.05 €

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This recipe uses (among others)
Blackcurrant liqueur
Blackcurrant liqueur

You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Blackcurrant sorbet for Edith, Dijonnaise pear cake, ... See them all 2

Real custard sauce (crème anglaise)
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