It's fruit. It has to be healthy
This is a fairly healthy option for dessert, especially if you leave out the whipped cream. Make sure to use extra dry champagne, or if you are using prosecco, make sure it’s not too sweet.
Poached Pears in Champagne
- 1 bottle inexpensive extra dry champagne
- 4 ripe pears skinned and cored
- 2 sticks cinnamon
- 6 whole cloves
- Cinnamon sugar
- Fresh amaretto whipped cream
Empty champagne in a stock pot and add cinnamon sticks and whole cloves. Bring to a simmer and add pears. Cook until a knife pierces through each pear easily, about 25 minutes. Serve on top of a dollop of Amaretto whipped cream and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar.
This is incredible. I don’t know what to say. I feel like this would be a dessert for me to enjoy in a quiet home, curled up with a great book. And I would have to have the whipped cream lol. I can’t wait to try this. I’m getting excited just thinking about it lol.
That sounds like my house, if the dogs were on vacation. Katherine cut up the leftovers and used them on a salad with some feta and pecans the next day.
On my way to buy me some pears tonight! Where do you get your inspiration from? Keep doing great things … and thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Sean. I always like poached pears and always see them in riesling. But that can end up being too syrupy or just a waste of wine. We were doing something else with champagne, oh that may be tomorrow’s post, and well you can’t just let that go to waste.
Another amazing recipe! Your blog always makes me drool… and as promised, I am reporting back on your margarita recipe, which i have now tried… excellent indeed… and will stay in my repertoir…. thanks! ;o)
Thanks and thanks for the report. Glad you liked it!
very cool dessert!…love the presentation too!!
Very elegant!
Rufus, OMG! I’ve had a very similar recipe on my to do list! Need to try soon!
Wowza! I’ve never done pears in Champagne either but it looks divine. I’ve always been plain jain with sugar syrup and a bit of chocolate ganache serving the pear sitting in chantilly cream. You’ve opened my eyes to bigger and better things! Thanks heaps.
This looks absolutely divine!
Pears in champagne, so fancy I must try them soon!
This looks FANTASTIC!
I was showing Mr. N your site tonight and saw this post. Not sure how I missed it, but glad I saw it now. This looks super yummy! Mr. N will be having his poached in grape juice though.
My RSS feed was down for a bit yesterday not sure why. We had leftover pears and they were so good cold too.
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