I love pears. I mostly eat them plain or in a salad, and rarely with dessert. That changed a couple weeks ago. This month's recipe was inspired by a free weeknight and ingredients I had in my kitchen. The result.. a pear-y tasty dessert.
Note: this recipe can be doubled if you wish to make more servings at one time.
Ingredients:
2 cups water
2 Bartlett or Anjou pears, peeled, halved, and cored
1/3 cup cane sugar
2 tablespoons turbinado sugar (or substitute with cane sugar) - used for syrup
1/4 cup honey
1/2 cinnamon stick
2 star of anise
1-2 slices of lemon or orange rind
3 whole cloves
a dash of vanilla extract
1 ounce bourbon/whiskey (optional)
Directions:
1. Bring water, cane sugar, honey, vanilla extract, and spices to a boil. Stir until sugar is fully dissolved.
2. Add pears and reduce water to a simmer. Cover water and let simmer for 25-30 minutes. Pears should be mostly submerged. Add more water if pears are not submerged enough.
3. Remove pears with a slotted spoon. The pears will be quite soft when finished. Cover and chill. (I put mine in the fridge while finishing the syrup)
4. Add 2 tablespoons turbinado sugar and (optional) 1 ounce whiskey to pear liquid. Stir added ingredients.
5. Increase heat to medium/high and continue to boil ans stir the remaining pear liquid. (This step is how the liquid is reduced to a syrup.) Keep liquid on stove and boiling until it is syrupy and has reduced to approximately 1/2 cup.
6. Remove pear syrup from heat and strain out the spices.
7. Serve chilled pear with a syrup drizzle. (Optional: serve with ice cream too!)
8. Enjoy!
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