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Poached pears

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

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Last modified on: November 22^th 2023

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For 2 pears, you will need:

1 2 Pears
2 2 pinches vitamin C
3 1 ¾ cup Poaching syrup

Change these quantities to make: 2 pears 4 pears 8 pears 12 pears

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18 min.	10 min.	28 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 8 min.

Take 2 Pears, peel...

Stage 2

...and drop them as you go into a bowl of cold water to which you've added 2 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 1 ¾ cup 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

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
688 Kcal or 2,881 Kj	5 gr	1,098 gr	1 gr
34 %	2 %	104 %	<1 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
91 Kcal or 381 Kj	1 gr	145 gr	< 1 gr
5 %	<1 %	14 %	<1 %

Per pears
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
344 Kcal or 1,440 Kj	3 gr	549 gr	< 1 gr
17 %	1 %	52 %	<1 %

% 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 2 pears : 1.96 €
Per pears : 0.98 €

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