Poached pears with cranberry brittle filling

AUTHOR
Leta Marks
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
4 3
COOK TIME
25 mins
TOTAL TIME
25 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 1 Orange
  • 300 ml White wine
  • 1 Cinnamon stick
  • 175 g Sugar
  • 4 Pears
  • 100 g Hazelnut kernels
  • 125 g Wild cranberries
  • 7-10 Tbsp Cocoa powder
  • 7-10 Tbsp Oil
  • 7-10 Tbsp Aluminium foil

Directions

  1. 1

    Rinse orange hot, rub dry and cut into slices. Bring 400 ml water, white wine, cinnamon, 125 g sugar and orange to the boil in a pot. Peel pears and cut off about 1/4 of the stem end.

  2. 2

    Remove the core housing with a ball cutter. Poach the pears in the wine stock for about 15 minutes.

  3. 3

    Caramelise 50 sugars in a pan, stir in the hazelnuts. Put them on a piece of aluminium foil coated with oil, let them cool down a bit and chop them roughly. Mix cranberries and nuts. Remove pears from the liquid, drain and fill with the nut-cranberry mixture.

  4. 4

    Dust with cocoa powder.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
360 kcal
CARBS
49 g
FATS
16 g
PROTEINS
4 g

Categories & Tags

Dessertsweetvery easy