Pear in Marsala

AUTHOR
Janie Gentry
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 1
COOK TIME
20 mins
TOTAL TIME
20 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 50 g Sugar
  • 1/8 l Marsala
  • 7-10 Tbsp Juice of 1 lemon
  • 1/2 Vanilla pod
  • 1 Cinnamon stick
  • 2 Pears
  • 4 (50 g each) Kugeln Pistazien-
  • 7-10 Tbsp Ice cream
  • 1 TABLESPOON crushed pistachio kernels
  • 7-10 Tbsp possibly mint

Directions

  1. 1

    Melt the sugar in a pan without fat while stirring until golden brown. Deglaze with Marsala, lemon juice and 1/8 litre of water and boil off. Cut the vanilla pod lengthwise and scrape out the pulp.

  2. 2

    Add the cinnamon stick, vanilla pod and pulp and simmer for 5 minutes. Peel and halve the pears, remove the core. Steam pears in the prepared broth covered at low heat for about 7 minutes. Let cool in the liquid.

  3. 3

    Remove vanilla pod and cinnamon stick. Cut the pears into fan shapes and serve with some liquid and 1 scoop of ice cream each. Sprinkle with pistachios and garnish with mint as desired.

Categories & Tags

Dessertexotic