Pears in red wine with blackcurrant


Pears in red wine with blackcurrant
Pears cooked until soft in a red wine and blackcurrant syrup, served with the reduced syrup and custard sauce (crème anglaise).
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Last modified on: February 21th 2011

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Stage 1 - 3 min.
Pears in red wine with blackcurrant
In a pan, pour 750 ml red wine, 250 ml Blackcurrant liqueur and 100 g caster sugar.

Stage 2
Pears in red wine with blackcurrant
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
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
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
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
Put back pan on low fire, and make reduce a half volume.

Stage 7 - 2 min.
Pears in red wine with blackcurrant
When syrup is reduced, pour through a fine strainer, in a smaller pan.

Stage 8 - 5 min.
Pears in red wine with blackcurrant
Bring to boil and add 2 pinches agar-agar, mix well with a fork, and remove from fire.

Let thicken when cooling.

Stage 9
Pears in red wine with blackcurrant
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
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
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
Whole recipe
Energetic valueProteins CarbohydratesFats
1,674 Kcal or 7,009 Kj14 gr206 gr17 gr
84 %5 %19 %3 %
Per 100 g
Energetic valueProteins CarbohydratesFats
91 Kcal or 381 Kj1 gr11 gr1 gr
5 %<1 %1 %<1 %
Per person
Energetic valueProteins CarbohydratesFats
279 Kcal or 1,168 Kj2 gr34 gr3 gr
14 %1 %3 %<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).
Possible allergens in this recipe: Sulfites, Milk, Egg
How much will it cost?
  • For 6 people : 12.12 €
  • Per person : 2.02 €

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This recipe uses (among others)
Red wineRed wine: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Roscoff loaf, Marchand de vin sauce, Oxtail Parmentier, Boeuf (beef) bourguignon, Coq au vin, ... All
Blackcurrant liqueurBlackcurrant liqueur: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Blackcurrant sorbet for Edith, Dijonnaise pear cake, ... All
Real custard sauce (crème anglaise)Real custard sauce (crème anglaise): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Rice pudding (riz au lait), Caramel semolina pudding with raisins, European glass, Warm apple feuillantines, Individual charlottes with morello cherries, ... All
Caster sugarCaster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pear and lime meringue pie, Prune Far, Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée), Grapefruit moelleux, Blackcurrant, vanilla and lime verrine , ... All
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