Roasted Pears with Crème Anglaise for Dessert

Pears are a fruit that is well-suited to desserts like this one with Roasted Pears and Crème Anglaise. They get sweeter with baking or poaching and add a nice texture to cakes or muffins.

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Roasted Pears with Crème Anglaise

Serve one to two pear halves per person, adjust the proportions after deciding the serving size. In this case, I used 1/2 pear per person, but it doesn't hurt to make extra.

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Prep Time 20 mins

Cook Time 40 mins

Total Time 1 hr 15 mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine French, Provencal

Servings 8 people

Ingredients

  

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For the Pears:

• 4 Bosc Pears 1/2 per person, or add more pears
• ½ tsp Cinnamon
• 1 tsp Cardamom
• 1/2 cup (120 ml) Honey
• 4 oz (114 g) Butter
• pinch of Salt
• 8 Star Anise remove after roasting the pears

For the Crème Anglaise:

• 4 Egg Yolks
• 1 cup (225 g) Sugar
• 1 cup (240ml) Heavy Cream
• 1 cup (240 ml) whole milk
• 1 Vanilla Bean split and scraped

Instructions

 

Method for the Pears:

• Heat honey and butter until melted and whisk in spices and salt.
• Using a pastry brush, coat the mixture on the pears.
• Roast for 20 minutes at 175˚C or 350˚F unless the pears are not ripe, then roast until tender, which may take up to 40 minutes.
• Serve with Crème Anglaise.

Method for the Crème Anglaise:

• In a medium saucepan, combine milk and cream over medium-high heat.
• Scrape vanilla bean seeds into pan, add the pod as well.
• Heat over medium heat, just until mixture starts to bubble around the edges of the pan, about 2 minutes.
• Remove from heat; cover and let stand 15 minutes.
• In a medium mixing bowl, whisk the egg yolks with sugar.
• Pour a small amount of the hot milk mixture into the egg mixture, then whisk to combine.
• Add more of the milk mixture, and whisk to combine.
• Pour this mixture into the remaining cream mixture in the pan.
• Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until custard is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon, about 5 to 7 minutes.
• Strain through a fine sieve into a medium bowl to remove the vanilla pod over an ice-water bath. Let stand until cold, stirring occasionally.

Keyword Dessert, Pears

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