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Pears in red wine with blackcurrant

Name: Pears in red wine with blackcurrant
Prep time: 1 h 55 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 2 h 35 min
Yield: 6 people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 750 ml red wine; 250 ml blackcurrant liqueur; 100 g caster sugar; 3 Pears; 1 vanilla pod; 2 pinches agar-agar; 200 ml real custard sauce (crème anglaise); fresh mint leaves

Pears cooked until soft in a red wine and blackcurrant syrup, served with the reduced syrup and custard sauce (crème anglaise).

261 K 4.1/5 (21 reviews)

2 hours 35 min. difficulté

Easy

12.15 €

6 people

8 Ingredients

Last modified on: February 21^th 2011

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: 1,845 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation: 55 min.

Resting: 1 hour

Cooking: 40 min.

All in all: 2 hours 35 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - ⌛ 3 min.

Pears in red wine with blackcurrant : Stage 1

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.

Pears in red wine with blackcurrant : Stage 3

Put immediately the half in syrup to prevent from blackening.

Proceed so with all pears.

Stage 4 - ⌛ 15 min.

Pears in red wine with blackcurrant : Stage 4

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.

Stage 5 - ⌛ 1 hour

Pears in red wine with blackcurrant : Stage 5

Tomorrow, remove pears from syrup, put in another container, and covered by a half of syrup.

Cover and let wait at ambient temperature.

Stage 6 - ⌛ 20 min.

Pears in red wine with blackcurrant : Stage 6

Put back pan on low fire, and make reduce a half volume.

Stage 7 - ⌛ 2 min.

Pears in red wine with blackcurrant : Stage 7

When syrup is reduced, pour through a fine strainer, in a smaller pan.

Stage 8 - ⌛ 5 min.

Pears in red wine with blackcurrant : Stage 8

Bring to boil and add 2 pinches agar-agar, mix well with a fork, and remove from fire.

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.

Pears in red wine with blackcurrant : Stage 10

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.

Stage 11 - ⌛ 10 min.

Pears in red wine with blackcurrant : Stage 11

Fill one plate side with custard sauce (crème anglaise) and the other one with cooking syrup.

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.

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	50 RDI=20 %	340 RDI=30 %	60 RDI=9 %	2,710 RDI=140 %	11,350 RDI: 140 %
Per 100 g	2 RDI=1 %	20 RDI=2 %	3 RDI=0 %	150 RDI=7 %	620 RDI: 7 %
Per person	7 RDI=3 %	60 RDI=5 %	9 RDI=1 %	450 RDI=20 %	1,890 RDI: 20 %