Pears poached in red wine
Serve with whipped cream.
Ingredients
- 2 ripe pears
- 400 ml red wine
- 2 tbsp caster sugar
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 cloves
- finely grated zest of 1 lemon (unwaxed)
Method
- Peel and core the pears, cut into quarters. Heat all other ingredients in a saucepan, add pear quarters and simmer until soft. Remove pear pieces and place in a bowl. Turn up heat and cook wine uncovered until much reduced to almost syrup consistency (all alcohol will have evaporated by that stage…). Spoon syrup over pears and refrigerate before serving.