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
Keywords for this recipe:For 6 people, you will need:
- 1
750 ml red wine - 2
250 ml Blackcurrant liqueur - 3
100 g caster sugar - 4
3 Pears - 5
1 vanilla pod - 6
2 pinches agar-agar - 7
200 ml Real custard sauce (crème anglaise) - 8
fresh mint leaves - Total weight: 1,843 grams
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Resting | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 55 min. | 1 hour | 40 min. | 2 hours 35 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 3 min.
In a pan, pour 750 ml red wine, 250 ml Blackcurrant liqueur and 100 g caster sugar.
Stage 2
For each pears, one by one: peel, cut in two, remove core and if necessary fiber around tail.
Stage 3 - 20 min.
Put immediately the half in syrup to prevent from blackening.
Proceed so with all pears.
Proceed so with all pears.
Stage 4 - 15 min.
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.
Let cool in the syrup, covered this time, if possible during all night.
Stage 5 - 1 hour
Tomorrow, remove pears from syrup, put in another container, and covered by a half of syrup.
Cover and let wait at ambient temperature.
Cover and let wait at ambient temperature.
Stage 6 - 20 min.
Put back pan on low fire, and make reduce a half volume.
Stage 7 - 2 min.
When syrup is reduced, pour through a fine strainer, in a smaller pan.
Stage 8 - 5 min.
Bring to boil and add 2 pinches agar-agar, mix well with a fork, and remove from fire.
Let thicken when cooling.
Let thicken when cooling.
Stage 9
A bit before serving, cut half pears from top to bottom in several thin parts.
Stage 10 - 20 min.
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.
Put a half pear by service plate, and spread cuts to shape the hand-held fan.
Stage 11 - 10 min.
Fill one plate side with custard sauce (crème anglaise) and the other one with cooking syrup.
Decorate with a mint leaf.
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.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 1,674 Kcal or 7,009 Kj | 14 gr | 206 gr | 17 gr |
| 84 % | 5 % | 19 % | 3 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 91 Kcal or 381 Kj | 1 gr | 11 gr | 1 gr |
| 5 % | <1 % | 1 % | <1 % |
| Per person | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 279 Kcal or 1,168 Kj | 2 gr | 34 gr | 3 gr |
| 14 % | 1 % | 3 % | <1 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 6 people : 12.12 €
- Per person : 2.02 €
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
Source
Home made.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Red wine: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Mulled wine Belle-Plagne style, Strawberries in a thyme and lemon-flavoured red wine reduction, Tenderloin steaks marinated in red wine with rosemary, Coq au vin, Marchand de vin sauce, ... All |
 | Blackcurrant liqueur: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Dijonnaise pear cake, Blackcurrant sorbet for Edith, ... All |
 | Real custard sauce (crème anglaise): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Norman flambéed apples, Sautéed pears with custard and orange syrup , Confit of quinces in Macvin, Caramel semolina pudding with raisins, Bavaroise cream, ... All |
 | Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Brioche royale, Cornmeal baps for Anne, Pistachio panna cotta with custard, Naan, Chocolate cream, ... All |
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