Poached pears with fleur de sel caramel sauce

Poires pochées au caramel et à la fleur de sel

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Preparation info
  • Serves:

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      40 min

Appears in
New Bistro

By Fran Warde

Published 2009

  • About

This recipe is simply divine, believe me! I love the caramel sauce and the pears poached in a vanilla syrup, all topped with a few chopped hazelnuts. Christopher serves his with a scoop of pear sorbet — but I love it on its own.

Ingredients

  • 500 ml (18 fl oz) water
  • 500 g (1

Method

Place the water in a pan with the sugar and vanilla pod and heat until a syrup is formed. Carefully place the pears in the syrup and put a round of greaseproof paper on top of them weighted down with a wooden spoon — this helps to keep the pears submerged in the syrup. Simmer the pears for 20 minutes, then remove from the heat and leave to cool in the syrup.

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