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Poached pears

Name: Poached pears
Prep time: 18 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 28 min
Yield: 4 pears
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 4 Pears; 3 pinches vitamin C; 800 ml poaching syrup

Poached pears are used in a number of desserts. Here's a method for poaching them that you can use in all your recipes.

28 K 5/5 (3 reviews)

30 min.

Easy

3.95 €

4 pears

3 Ingredients

Last modified on: November 22^th 2023

For 4 pears, you will need:

1 4 Pears
2 3 pinches vitamin C
3 800 ml poaching syrup
Total weight: 1,520 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation: 20 min.

Cooking: 10 min.

All in all: 30 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - ⌛ 8 min.

Take 4 Pears, peel...

Stage 2

...and drop them as you go into a bowl of cold water to which you've added 3 pinches vitamin C, or if you don't have any, the juice of a lemon.

We do this to prevent the pears from turning brown once peeled, as they oxidize very quickly.

Stage 3

Remove a pear from the water, cut it in 2 lengthways, remove the core (an apple scoop is ideal for this, or alternatively a small spoon), then the tail of each half, before plunging them back into the cold water.

Stage 4 - ⌛ 10 min.

Do this for all the pears.

Stage 5 - ⌛ 10 min.

Pour into a saucepan, add 800 ml poaching syrup and cook over medium heat until a knife blade can easily cut through a pear.

Stage 6

Leave to cool in the syrup, covered, until ready to use.

Your poached pears are ready.

Remarks

Poaching syrup can be flavored with vanilla, aniseed, lemon zest, etc. etc. Feel free to follow your ideas.

This syrup can be reused several times, and you can even freeze it between uses.

You'll find recipes that recommend using pear trimmings (peelings and hearts) to flavor the poaching syrup before using it. Having tried them with and without, I don't find any marked difference.

Keeping: Several days, in their syrup, in a closed jar and in the fridge.

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	10 RDI=4 %	2,200 RDI=210 %	1 RDI=0 %	1,380 RDI=70 %	5,760 RDI: 70 %
Per 100 g	0	140 RDI=10 %	0	90 RDI=5 %	380 RDI: 5 %
Per pears	2 RDI=1 %	550 RDI=50 %	0	340 RDI=20 %	1,440 RDI: 20 %

How much will it cost?

For 4 pears : 3.95 €
Per pears : 1.00 €

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