Spiced Poached Pears
45 min · serves 4
Crops from your garden in this recipe: 🍐 Pear
Ingredients
- 4 Firm pears, peeled with stalks left on (grown in the garden)
- 100 g Caster sugar
- 1 Lemon, peeled zest in strips
- 1 Cinnamon stick
- 1 tsp Vanilla pod or extract
Green items are crops you can grow yourself.
Method
- Put the sugar, 600 ml water, lemon zest, cinnamon and vanilla in a pan that will hold the pears snugly. Stir over a low heat until the sugar dissolves.
- Add the pears, cover with a circle of baking paper and simmer very gently for 20–30 minutes until a knife slides in easily.
- Lift the pears out and boil the syrup for 10 minutes until reduced and glossy.
- Serve warm or chilled with the syrup spooned over and ice cream or cream.