Chocolate-Glazed Pears

Name: Chocolate-Glazed Pears
Yield: 6 portions
Ingredients: Fruit Poaching Syrup; ⅓ cup shelled black walnuts, coarsely chopped; ⅓ cup raisins; ⅓ cup dried apricots, coarsely chopped; 6 large pears; Dried apricots and walnut halves, for garnish; Chocolate Glaze; Dried apricots and walnut halves, for garnish

Preparation info

6
portions

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Silver Palate Cookbook

By Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins

Published 1982

About

A perfectly elegant dessert.

Ingredients

Fruit Poaching Syrup
6 large pears
⅓ cup dried apricots, coarsely chopped

Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Prepare the poaching syrup and simmer for 10 minutes.
Peel the pears and core them from the bottom, leaving the stems in place. Reserve the cores.
Poach the pears in the syrup, standing them upright, until tender but not mushy, about 12 minutes. Let the pears cool in the poaching syrup.
Meanwhile, combine the apricots and raisins in a small