Baked pears with vanilla mascarpone is a classic dessert that is both elegant and easy to make. The combination of sweet, juicy pears and creamy, flavorful mascarpone cheese is a match made in heaven. This dish is perfect for a special occasion or a simple weeknight treat. With just a few simple ingredients, you can create a dessert that will impress your friends and family.
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BAKED PEARS WITH VANILLA MASCARPONE
Baked pears are a rustic but elegant dessert. If using Bosc pears, buy only ripe ones; Anjou, which are juicier, can still be slightly firm. Avoid enamel baking dishes, as they cause the syrup to burn.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Slice off bottom end of each pear just enough so that it will stand upright. Using a melon baller or small spoon, remove seeds from the bottom. Peel upper half, leaving stem intact, and pat dry with a paper towel. Rub butter over peeled part of each pear, and arrange pears in a small baking dish (about 7 by 11 inches) so they are standing. Sprinkle with the sugar.
- Pour wine into baking dish; add thyme sprigs, if using. Bake until pears are soft when pierced with a paring knife and well browned, about 45 minutes; using a small spoon, baste pears occasionally with the wine, adding a bit of water as needed to prevent liquid from evaporating. Remove from oven.
- To serve, spoon some of the pan juices into each serving dish, and place a pear on top. Serve with a dollop of mascarpone and several biscotti on the side.
CHESTNUT HONEY-BAKED PEARS STUFFED WITH MASCARPONE
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine wine, 1/4 cup chestnut honey, water, cinnamon, and lemon zest in a medium saucepan. Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean and add the seeds and the scraped bean to the pot. Bring to a simmer, stirring. Pour the poaching liquid into a baking dish just large enough to hold the pears. Keeping stems intact, remove the core from the pear using a melon baller (apple corer) entering through the base and removing only the woody core and seeds. Trim the skin off the base only of the pear and place upright in baking dish. Bake the pears about 25 to 35 minutes or until tender. You must baste the pears with the liquid every 5 to 7 minutes. The skins should be crinkly. Remove from oven and let cool in the liquid.
- Combine the mascarpone with the remaining 1 tablespoon chestnut honey. Using a pastry bag, fill each pear at its base with the mascarpone. Serve drizzled with poaching syrup.
RED WINE POACHED PEARS WITH MASCARPONE FILLING
Provided by Michael Chiarello : Food Network
Categories dessert
Time 1h
Yield 6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Peel pears and leave stem intact. In a large saucepan, bring wine and an equal amount of cold water to a simmer. Split vanilla bean lengthwise and add to wine and water mixture. Add cinnamon sticks, bay leaves and sugar, to taste. Add pears to liquid and simmer for about 20 minutes or until tender. Cool pears in wine mixture to room temperature. You can refrigerate them in the poaching liquid until you're ready to fill them.
- Remove stems from pears and set stems aside. Core pears with an apple corer, leaving pear whole.
- Whisk together mascarpone cheese, heavy cream, pinch cinnamon and powdered sugar until smooth. Transfer to a pastry bag, or if you do not have one, use wax paper tightly wrapped into a cone with the corner snipped off. Pipe filling into cored pears and finish by putting the stems gently into the mascarpone filling on top of the pears.
- Bring sauce up to a simmer and reduce by half. Add butter to reduced sauce and stir until combined. Spoon generously over pears. Cool to room temperature before serving.
AMARETTO BAKED PEARS WITH MASCARPONE
I pull this recipe whenever I feel the need to impress. It is a wonderful dessert (and I don't "do" desserts as a rule). Beware of sharing the amaretto with the pears during cooking - result WILL vary - hic. Enjoy!
Provided by sams1
Categories Dessert
Time 40m
Yield 2 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- To make almond cream - Beat butter and sugar together until combined, add flour and egg until combined. Beat in almonds, stir in 3/4 of crushed biscuits.
- Pack 1 tablespoon of almond cream into the cored out section of each pear half.
- Split the vanilla pod in half, scrape out seeds and mix with sugar. Chop vanilla pod into large pieces.
- Place pears into baking dish, sprinkle over vanilla sugar, remaining biscuits, vanilla pod pieces and drizzle with amaretto.
- Bake in over at 200C gor 10 minutes or until pears are cooked.
- Mix together mascapone and icing sugar.
- Remove pears from oven and transfere to serving plates.
- Drizzle a little extra amaretto into baking dish and stir pan juices.
- Serve pan with sweetened mascopone and the amaretto pan juices - enjoy.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 1243.7, Fat 72.3, SaturatedFat 28.7, Cholesterol 213.2, Sodium 43.7, Carbohydrate 139.9, Fiber 12.8, Sugar 93.2, Protein 20.1
BAKED PEARS
This baked pears recipe is very versatile. You can serve it warm or cold and for any size group. Chilled pears can be dressed up with a dollop of whipped topping, fruit-filled yogurt or ice cream. -Betty Schledorn, Ocala, Florida
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 25m
Yield 2 servings.
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350°. Place pear halves, cut side up, in a shallow 1-qt. baking dish. Place butter in the center of each; drizzle with lemon juice. , Combine sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over pears. Top with marmalade. Bake, covered, until heated through, 15-20 minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 219 calories, Fat 8g fat (5g saturated fat), Cholesterol 20mg cholesterol, Sodium 70mg sodium, Carbohydrate 40g carbohydrate (29g sugars, Fiber 6g fiber), Protein 1g protein.
CREAMY BAKED PEARS
So simple but so delicious.
Provided by Lonnie Starks
Categories Desserts
Time 40m
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch baking dish with 1 tablespoon butter. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon sugar into buttered dish.
- Rub remaining 1 tablespoon butter over pear halves; arrange pears cut sides down in prepared baking dish and sprinkle with remaining 1 tablespoon sugar.
- Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes. Pour cream over pears and continue baking until tender, about 20 minutes more.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 174.8 calories, Carbohydrate 19.5 g, Cholesterol 35.7 mg, Fat 11.4 g, Fiber 2.6 g, Protein 0.7 g, SaturatedFat 7.1 g, Sodium 47.4 mg, Sugar 14.4 g
BAKED PEARS WITH VANILLA MASCARPONE
Bosc pears must be very ripe; Anjou, which are juicier, can be slightly firm. Avoid enamel baking dishes, as they cause the syrup to burn.
Yield serves 4
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 425°F. Slice off the bottom of each pear just enough so it will stand upright. Using a melon baller or small spoon, remove the seeds from the bottom. Peel the upper half, leaving the stem intact; pat dry with a paper towel. Rub butter over the peeled part of each pear; stand the pears in a small baking dish (about 7 × 11 inches). Sprinkle with the sugar.
- Pour the wine into the baking dish; add the thyme sprigs, if using. Bake until the pears are soft when pierced with a paring knife and well browned, about 45 minutes; using a small spoon, baste the pears occasionally with the wine, adding a bit of water as needed to prevent the liquid from evaporating. Remove from the oven.
- Spoon some of the pan juices into each serving dish, and place a pear on top. Serve with a dollop of mascarpone and several biscotti on the side.
- Combine all the ingredients in a small bowl, and stir together with a wooden spoon.
SLOW-ROASTED PEARS WITH HAZELNUTS, HONEY & MASCARPONE
I found this recipe in the "Weekend with Nino Zoccali" section of the October 2008 issue of 'Australian Good Food' where it is recommended as the ideal finale to an Italian feast and "also quite healthy as the pears are high in fibre and hazelnuts are good for you too - a drizzle of natural honey to finish and la vita e bella".
Provided by bluemoon downunder
Categories Dessert
Time 1h45m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 190°C or 170°C fan.
- Mix lemon juice and caster sugar into one litre of water and stir to dissolve the sugar; halve and core the pears and place in the water.
- Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean; reserve the bean and place the seeds in a small bowl with the butter and brown sugar; mix well until soft and spreadable.
- Remove the pears from the water and spread the butter mixture over the cut sides; pour 700 ml of the water into a deep baking pan, place the pears into the pan, cut-side up; place the vanilla bean halves in the water and cover the pan with foil; pierce the foil in four places.
- Bake the pears for 11/2 hours until they are tender.
- Place the pears in shallow bowls and spoon over a little of the cooking syrup; drizzle with honey and scatter with hazelnuts; and serve warm or at room temperature with mascarpone.
- TIP: Check the water level in the baking pan from time to time during the cooking time, and add a little more water if too much has evaporated.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 419.6, Fat 14.4, SaturatedFat 6.1, Cholesterol 24, Sodium 69.7, Carbohydrate 77.3, Fiber 6, Sugar 65.9, Protein 2.1
PEAR GRATIN WITH MASCARPONE CUSTARD
Provided by Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Categories dessert, side dish
Time 1h15m
Yield 6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- To make the custard, heat the milk in a heavy saucepan until it is almost boiling. In a separate bowl, beat egg yolks until they are light and pale-colored. Beat sugar into the yolks, tablespoon by tablespoon. Add flour and beat until smooth. Add heated milk to the yolk mixture in a slow stream, beating constantly. Beat until smooth. Return the mixture to the saucepan and cook, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a boil. Boil for 2 minutes. Remove from heat and chill.
- When the mixture is thoroughly chilled, remove from refrigerator and whisk until smooth. Fold the mascarpone into the mixture. In a separate bowl, beat the cream until medium-stiff and fold into the custard mixture. Stir in vanilla and chill until ready to use.
- To make the gratin, preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Melt the butter in a large cast-iron skillet over medium heat. Add sugar and stir constantly until a golden brown caramel develops. Remove from heat.
- Arrange the pear halves, cut side down, on top of the caramel and scatter minced ginger, if desired, over the pears. Cover the pears with foil and bake for 15 minutes or until tender when pierced with a skewer.
- Place two pear halves in each of six individual gratin dishes. Divide the caramel among the dishes. Pour about 1 cup of custard into each gratin dish, covering the pears. Place the gratin dishes on a baking sheet for easier handling and bake for 5 minutes. Remove from oven.
- Change the oven setting to broil. Place gratins on the upper rack of the oven and broil carefully until the custard bubbles and browns, about 1 1/2 minutes. Watch very carefully; do not burn.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 1067, UnsaturatedFat 23 grams, Carbohydrate 106 grams, Fat 71 grams, Fiber 6 grams, Protein 8 grams, SaturatedFat 43 grams, Sodium 208 milligrams, Sugar 91 grams, TransFat 0 grams
Tips:
- Choose ripe but firm pears for baking. This will ensure that they hold their shape and don't become too mushy.
- Use a variety of pears for different flavors and textures. Some good choices include Bartlett, Bosc, Anjou, and Comice.
- If you don't have vanilla extract, you can use a vanilla bean. Just split the bean in half lengthwise and scrape out the seeds.
- Don't overcook the pears. They should be tender but still hold their shape.
- Serve the pears warm or at room temperature. They can be topped with whipped cream, ice cream, or a drizzle of honey.
Conclusion:
Baked pears are a delicious and easy dessert that can be enjoyed all year round. They are a good source of fiber and vitamins, and they can be made with a variety of different ingredients. Next time you are looking for a quick and easy dessert, give baked pears a try.
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