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Sautéed pears with custard and orange syrup

Pear halves sautéed in butter and sugar served with real custard (crème anglaise) and a reduced blood-orange syrup.

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Last modified on: February 20^th 2011

For 4 people, you will need:

1 2 oranges
2 4 Pears
3 1 tablespoon lemon juice
4 2 pinches vitamin C (optional)
5 2 tablespoons Clarified butter
6 2 tablespoons caster sugar
7 100 ml Real custard sauce (crème anglaise)
Total weight: 1,495 grams

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Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
48 min.	16 min.	1 hour 4 min.

Keeping:

Several days in the fridge, covered by a plastic film.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Sautéed pears with custard and orange syrup : Photo of step #1

Squeeze the juice from 2 oranges, using blood oranges if possible.

Stage 2 - 30 min.

Sautéed pears with custard and orange syrup : Photo of step #2

Peel 4 Pears, cut in half and plunge immediately into a bowl of cold water containing 1 tablespoon lemon juice or better still 2 pinches vitamin C.

This is to prevent them turning brown. It doesn't help the taste, but keeps them nice and white.

Take a pear half out of the water, remove the stalk and core using a small spoon or better still a pommes parisiennes spoon (melon spoon). Return them to the cold water when done.

Continue like this to prepare all the pears.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Sautéed pears with custard and orange syrup : Photo of step #3

Melt 2 tablespoons Clarified butter in a pan on medium heat. When nice and hot, sprinkle with 2 tablespoons caster sugar and add the pears, dried. Brown lightly on the flat side.

Stage 4 - 6 min.

Sautéed pears with custard and orange syrup : Photo of step #4

Keep an eye on them and when the pears are lightly browned turn then over and brown on the rounded side, but don't leave them too long .

Set aside in a warm place.

Stage 5 - 10 min.

Sautéed pears with custard and orange syrup : Photo of step #5

Heat the serving plates.

Pour the orange juice into the same pan and leave to reduce until you have a kind of orange syrup.

Stage 6 - 5 min.

Sautéed pears with custard and orange syrup : Photo of step #6

Arrange on the plates: place 2 pear halves head to tail on each plate with the inside facing upwards.

Fill the central hollow with custard. It doesn't matter if this spills over slightly, on the contrary, it looks pretty.

Stage 7 - 3 min.

Sautéed pears with custard and orange syrup : Photo of step #7

Pour orange syrup all round and serve immediately.

Remarks

Blood oranges add something special with both their flavour and colour, but if you don't have any, you can use normal oranges, clementines or even grapefruit.

Nutritional information

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 15.12 €
Per person : 3.78 €

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Source

Home made

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	Orange: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Nonettes, Sweet pancake rolls from Brittany, Panettone, Provençal colombier for Pentecost, Quick orange marmalade, ... All

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