Salad of Pears with Cream Cheese

Name: Salad of Pears with Cream Cheese
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: juice of 1 lemon; pinch sugar; 4 tablespoons olive oil; 3 ripe pears; 175 g/6 oz fresh cream cheese; salt and freshly milled pepper; lettuce leaves; 1–2 tablespoons double cream; salt and freshly milled pepper

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Times Calendar Cookbook

By Katie Stewart

Published 1977

About

Many fruits go well with the milder flavour of cream or cottage cheese and pears are no exception. Choose ripe, juicy pears for this recipe; they make an attractive first course prepared in this way.

Ingredients

3 ripe pears
175 g/6 oz fresh cream cheese
1–

Starter
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Peel the pears and slice in half lengthways. Scoop out the cores with a teaspoon and rub the pears over with the cut side of a lemon to prevent them from becoming dark.

Blend the cream cheese and soften by adding a little cream. Season with salt and pepper and spoon into th