Poires Belle Hawa

Name: Poires Belle Hawa (Poached Pears with Chocolate Sauce)
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: For 6 people
Cuisine: African
Ingredients: 250 g (9 oz) caster (superfine) sugar; 6 pears; 2 small vanilla beans; 250 g (9 oz) roasted cashews; 2 cloves; 4 cups (1 litre) bissap; 200 g (7 oz) 64% dark chocolate, broken into pieces; 200 ml (7 fl oz) single (pure) cream; 200 ml (7 fl oz) reduced-fat milk; 2 cups (500 ml) single (pure) cream; 50 g (1¾ oz) icing (confectioners’) sugar

Poached Pears with Chocolate Sauce

Preparation info

For
6
people

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 15

Appears in

Saka Saka

By Anto Cocagne and Aline Princet

Published 2022

About

Ingredients

6 pears
4 cups (1 litre) bissap

Africa
Ethiopia
Senegal
Cote d'Ivoire
Cameroon
Republic of the Congo
Gabon
Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Preparation

Peel the pears, keeping the stems intact. Push an apple corer into each pear from the base to remove around 5 cm (2 inches) of the core and seeds. Cut the bases of the pears so that t