Poached Pear with Honey and Vanilla sauce.

Poached pear is one of my favorite desserts. When I serve this dessert to my guests, they really love it. And they always ask me for the recipe. So here it is :-)

Poached Pear with honey and vanilla sauce.

2 cups/500 ml Moscato wine or another sweet wine

1 stick of cinnamon

1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise

2 tablespoon honey

1 cup sugar (you can put less sugar on in)

1 (1/2 inch ) ginger, peeled and finely chop or grated

4 small pears, peeled and cored.

In a large saucepan big enough to hold all the pears, combine the sugar with 1 cup of water. Bring to boil and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Add the wine, cinnamon sticks, honey, and ginger. Scrape in the seeds from the vanilla bean and add put them with the bean into the saucepan. Bring the mixture to a shimmer, stirring occasionally until the honey has melted.

Add the pears and shimmer over medium-low heat around 15-20 minutes, turning occasionally, until the pears are tender when pierced with a small knife.

Remove the pears from the liquid and allow to cool. Continue to shimmer the liquid until it thickens and is reduced by half, for an other 15-20 minutes. Cool the liquid in room temperature. Sift the liquid to discard the cinnamon stick and vanilla bean.

Place the pear on a small serving plate and drizzle with the syrup.

Serve immediately!

Note: you can add vanilla ice cream or whipped cream to accompany the pears.

Eet smakelijk!

Selamat makan!