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.
132K 15 3.7
Last modified on: February 20th 2011
Keywords for this recipe:PearsSautéedVanilla sauceBlood orangeFor 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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Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 48 min. | 16 min. | 1 hour 4 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 5 min.
Squeeze the juice from 2 oranges, using blood oranges if possible.
Stage 2 - 30 min.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Set aside in a warm place.
Stage 5 - 10 min.
Heat the serving plates.
Pour the orange juice into the same pan and leave to reduce until you have a kind of orange syrup.
Pour the orange juice into the same pan and leave to reduce until you have a kind of orange syrup.
Stage 6 - 5 min.
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.
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.
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.
Keeping
Several days in the fridge, covered by a plastic film.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 1,159 Kcal or 4,853 Kj | 15 gr | 198 gr | 35 gr |
| 58 % | 6 % | 19 % | 5 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 77 Kcal or 322 Kj | 1 gr | 13 gr | 2 gr |
| 4 % | <1 % | 1 % | <1 % |
| Per person | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 290 Kcal or 1,214 Kj | 4 gr | 49 gr | 9 gr |
| 14 % | 1 % | 5 % | 1 % |
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Source
Home made.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Real custard sauce (crème anglaise): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pears and caramelised walnut samosas , Caramel semolina pudding with raisins, Individual charlottes with morello cherries, Rice pudding (riz au lait), Norman flambéed apples, ... All |
 | Pears: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Pear and lime meringue pie, Fruit salad, Pear charlotte, Pear, grapefruit and pistachio tart, Pear and chocolate Paris puddings, ... All |
 | Orange: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Little caramelized peach tarts, Flambéd bananas , Panettone, Quick orange marmalade, Citrus tart, ... All |
 | Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Ciabatta, How to succeed in making sabayon (syllabub), Vanilla sugar, Two-coloured chocolate-orange tart, Cranachan, ... All |
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