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Baked Pears

Dessert
Baked Pears

Oven-baked pears served with a dollop of the sour cream. The flavours of Muscovado sugar with the cardamom gives the pears a wonderful taste.

Ingredients

Pear
4
Apple juice
50 ml
Hazelnuts
50 g
Vanilla pod
1
Lemon
Zest Of 1
Ground cardamom Pods
1 tsp
Muscovado sugar
40 g
Butter
25 g
Sour cream
200 ml

Instructions

Step 1

  • Heat the oven to 250 °.

Step 2

  • Peel and halve the pears, leaving the stems attached.

Step 3

  • Put the pear halves in an ovenproof dish, and pour over the apple juice.

Step 4

  • Chop the nuts. Halve the vanilla pod and scrape out the seeds. Crush the cardamom roughly in a bowl.

Step 5

  • Add the vanilla seeds and sugar, and mix lightly.

Step 6

  • Spread the butter on the pears. Spread nuts and lemon peel on and around the pears. Sprinkle with the sugar mixture.

Step 7

  • Bake in the middle of the oven for 7-10 minutes. Serve with sour cream.
https://www.arlafoods.co.uk/recipes/baked-pears/