POACHED PEARS WITH CHOCOLATE PEAR SAUCE

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Categories     Fruit     Dessert

Number Of Ingredients 6

1 cp pear nectar
1 cp dry white wine
1/ cp sugar
4 slightly under-ripe pears, peeled, halved, cored
4 oz bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped
Vanilla ice cream

Steps:

  • Stir pear nectar, white wine and sugar in heavy large saucepan over medium-high heat until sugar dissolves and syrup comes to boil. Add pears to syrup in saucepan. Cover pan, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until pears are tender, about 8 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer pears to plate. Increase heat to medium-high and boil poaching liquid until reduced to 3/4 cp, about 8 minutes. Remove pan from heat. Add chocolate; whisk until chocolate melts and sauce is smooth. Place 1 warm pear half, cut side up, on each plate. Top with vanilla ice cream and warm chocolate sauce. Or cover pears and chocolate sauce seaptately and refigerate up to 2 days; then serve pears cold with ice cream and sauce, rewarming sauce, if desired. Makes 8 servings.

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