Red Wine Poached Pears with Chocolate Filling
Recipe by MSTRECKE from allrecipes.com
Dessert 40 Mins.
Ingredients
6
6 servings
- •4 pears, peeled, or more to taste
- •1.5 cups red wine
- •1 cup water
- •0.66666668653488 cup white sugar
- •2 tablespoons lemon juice
- •2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- •1 star anise pod
- •1 (11 ounce) jar chocolate sauce (such as Fran's®)
Instructions
- Cut bottom off each pear and core from the bottom to give each pear a flat bottom to stand upright.
- Combine wine, water, sugar, lemon juice, cinnamon, and star anise in a large saucepan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat and arrange pears on their sides in the saucepan. Simmer pears for 10 to 12 minutes. Turn pears and continue simmering until tender and easily poked with a fork, 8 to 10 minutes. Work in batches if needed.
- Remove pears from wine mixture and place in a serving dish, standing upright. Continue boiling wine sauce until reduced to about 3/4 cup, 5 to 10 more minutes.
- Fill each pear's core cavity with chocolate sauce. Pour wine sauce over each pear.
Nutritional Facts
Per 6 servings
- Calories: 400
- Carbohydrate: 79g
- Fat: 5g
- Fiber: 6g
- Protein: 3g
- Sugar: 54g
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