Best Wine Braised Pear Chantilly Recipes

WHITE WINE POACHED PEARS

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Thinly peel the pears, making sure to keep the stem intact. Slightly slice the bottom of the pears so they will stand up in the pan and when serving.
• In a large and tall saucepan, stir together the white wine , water, cinnamon stick, vanilla bean, lemon zest, and lemon juice. Bring the mixture to a simmer over medium-high heat.
• Once the liquid is simmering, add the prepared pears and place them standing on the pan. The liquid should cover most of the pears' height.
• Poach the pears, uncovered, for 7 to 9 minutes until their meat is slightly tender, but they are still firm enough to hold their shape. Watch this process carefully as you do not want the pears to overcook or they will collapse.
• Remove the pears from the poaching liquor with a slotted spoon and place them on individual serving plates.
• Return the poaching liquid to a simmer. Add the sugar and allow the mixture to reduce in volume by half or about 6 to 8 minutes. The syrup is ready when it is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon.
• Remove the cinnamon stick and vanilla bean from the syrup and strain the liquid through a fine sieve.
• Drizzle each pear with the wine syrup and add any other topping that you'd like.

PEARS WITH ALMOND AND CHANTILLY CREAM

Steps:

• In a medium mixing bowl combine pudding, whipped topping, and almond extract. Gently fold together until just combined. Arrange 3 pears in each serving dish. Top with 1/4 cup of the whipped topping mixture. Garnish with a tablespoon of toasted almonds.

WINE BRAISED PEAR CHANTILLY

Steps:

• Peel and core pears, leaving stems intact. (Note: I used a small melon-baller tool to carefully scoop the core out of each pear). Place pears in a non-reactive dutch oven with wine, sugar, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Simmer for 20 minutes, gently turning pears occasionally for even absorption/coloring. Remove pears and cool in refrigerator.
• Simmer wine mixture until reduced to 2 cups syrup. Place cake slices in 4 dessert bowls.
• In a medium bowl, beat whipping cream at medium speed until soft peeks form. Beat in powdered sugar and vanilla.
• Place pears upright on cake slices; trim bottoms to stand if necessary. Remove cinnamon sticks and cloves from syrup and pour syrup over pears. Garnish with whipped cream and almond slices.

SPICED RED WINE-POACHED PEARS

Steps:

• In a 4-quart saucepan, combine wine, sugar, orange juice, zest, cinnamon stick and cloves. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. While liquid is simmering, peel pears, leaving stem intact and being careful not to blemish the flesh of the pears. Slice 1/2-inch off the bottom of the pears to create a flat bottom. Gently place pears in poaching liquid, cover, and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes, turning every 5 minutes to ensure even color, until pears are cooked but still firm. Remove saucepan from flame, uncover and cool with pears upright in pan. Once cool, cover and chill in refrigerator at least 3 hours or up to 24 hours, turning occasionally, if desired. Gently remove pears from liquid and allow to come to room temperature. Meanwhile, reduce liquid by about half over a medium-high flame for 15 minutes, until liquid is thicker and slightly syrupy. Remove from flame and let liquid come to room temperature. Drizzle each pear with 2 tablespoons syrup and serve.

BRAISED PEARS IN RED WINE

Steps:

• Cut a thin level horizontal slice from the bottom of each pear so they can easily stand upright.
• In a medium stockpot, combine the wine, water, sugar, lemon juice and cinnamon.
• Bring to a boil over high heat.
• Remove from heat and carefully stand pears upright in pot.
• Return pot to burner and bring to brisk simmer over medium-high heat.
• Reduct the heat to low, cover, and simmer gently until pears are very tender but not falling apart, 1 to 1 1/2 hours, basting with liquid occasionally.
• With slotted spoon transfer pears to a individual serving plates.
• Meanwhile, boil the cooking liquid over high heat until syrupy and reduced to about 1/2 cup.
• Remove and discard cinnamon pieces.
• Spoon syrup evenly over the pears; let cool to room temperature.
• Serve at room temperature.
• Or cover and refrigerate 1- 24 hours and serve chilled.

JACQUES PEPIN'S BRAISED PEARS IN CARAMEL SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• Peel pears and cut in half lengthwise. Remove cores. Place pear halves flat side down in single layer in 1 or 2 large baking or gratin dishes. Sprinkle sugar over pears and dot with butter.
• Place in oven and bake 35 minutes. By this time sugar should have caramelized and pears should be tender when pierced with point of knife. If pears are not tender continue cooking 5 to 10 minutes. Pour cream over pears and return to oven. Bake 10 to 15 minutes more, basting every 5 minutes with cream.
• Cream should have reduced and thickened and turned nice ivory color. If sauce seems to be separating, add a tablespoon or two of hot water.
• Remove pears from oven, allow to cool slightly. Serve directly from baking dish.