Baked Pears with Wine and Walnut Cream
Sweet, fruity dessert. Garnish with orange peel and walnuts if desired.
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- Serves: 8 persons
Ingredients
- 4pears, peeled
- 10fluid ounces red wine, or more to taste
- ½cup dark brown sugar, packed
- 1vanilla bean, split and seeds scraped out and reserved
- 1orange, peeled and juiced (peel reserved)
- 7ounces shelled walnuts, divided
- ½cup heavy whipping cream
- ½cup sour cream
- 1orange, zested and juiced
- 2teaspoons dark brown sugar, or as needed
Instructions
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).Step 2
Arrange pears in an oven-proof pan with a tight-fitting lid; add red wine, 1/2 cup brown sugar, vanilla bean and seeds, and the peel and juice of 1 orange. Bring pear mixture to a boil; sprinkle with half the walnuts.Step 3
Bake the pear mixture in the preheated oven until pears are tender, 20 to 30 minutes, basting pears with red wine syrup every 10 minutes. Remove from oven and cool; remove the vanilla bean and orange peel from the red wine syrup.Step 4
Arrange the remaining walnuts on a baking sheet and bake in the preheated oven until toasted and fragrant, 5 minutes.Step 5
Place the toasted walnuts in a food processor and pour in the red wine syrup; pulse until paste-like consistency. Transfer to a bowl. Whisk cream, sour cream, zest and juice of 1 orange, and 2 teaspoons brown sugar into walnut-red wine paste until smooth.Step 6
Serve walnut-cream sauce over baked pears.