Pear in wine (dessert) - French recipe

A dessert is the worthy end of any festive banquet. He sort of sums up the table talk. And I want to see the most pleasant aftertaste left from the celebration. It will be fully provided by the pear in wine. Elegant and elegant dessert will not leave indifferent even the most picky gourmet. Of course, it will not work for a children's holiday, but adults will certainly appreciate this French recipe.

All about pears

The main ingredient requires severe selection. First, the fruit should have a hard flesh, otherwise the pear in wine will turn into a plain gruel. For our purposes, winter varieties are ideal. Secondly, the fruit should have an elongated shape and be approximately the same size - this is for aesthetics.

If you are scheduled as a dessert pear in wine, the recipe allows for different versions and sets of spices. But the preparation of the fruit is always the same. Pears are washed, dried and peeled. And the tail of them is not cut - it is more convenient, and looks more beautiful. The "ass" of the pear is neatly cut to make it stable. On the same side, the "insides" are extracted - the seed box. The operation is carried out as carefully as possible, so as not to damage the walls of the fruit.

Simply we languish

Prepared pears in red wine: it gives the dessert a pleasant burgundy shade. You can put even the most inexpensive dry varieties into the business, although it's probably not worth saving too much.

Half the standard bottle should be enough for four pears in wine. Dessert will be even tastier if the drink is flavored with spices: anise, cloves, cinnamon, fennel. The ratio is up to your liking. Even in the wine you need to pour about half a glass of sugar.

Pears are placed in a high saucepan and filled with the mixture. If it does not completely cover the fruit, you can add water. When the "marinade" boils, the fire is screwed to the minimum, the container closes with a lid and is left on the stove until the pears are ready - about a third of an hour. From time to time, the fruit should be turned to uniformly stain and cook. When they soften, pears are caught and left to cool.

Pear in wine: a recipe for the oven

For supporters of wind cooking, we can suggest the following algorithm of action. Pears (four pieces) are prepared in the manner described above and are added to the mold. Above, they are sprinkled with sugar (preferably brown, about a quarter of a glass) and poured into two glasses of wine. As spices are used vanillin and orange juice with zedra - enough one citrus. For piquancy of taste, a pear in wine is also served by half a glass of walnuts. The mold is placed in the oven for about half an hour. Periodically pears are poured with syrup: this will supply the fruit with an appetizing caramel crust.

The pear in the wine is necessarily chilled. Some prefer to use it and it is cold, with a temperature at the level of ice cream.

Pickled fruit

So far we have considered "drunken pears", so to speak, of quick cooking. However, there is a French recipe, the embodiment of which will take almost two days.

A pair of crusty pears, prepared according to all the rules, are poured with a quarter of a liter of wine. It adds an anise star, a cinnamon stick and a cardamom seed. The dish is hiding in the refrigerator for a whole day. Sometimes, when you remember, turn the fruit over for uniform impregnation.

On the second day, a syrup is made. For him, 60 grams of sugar dissolve in a glass of water (this is about four full spoons); The container is put on a small fire, and the syrup is brought to a boil with continuous stirring. After the final dissolution of the sugar, a spoonful of fresh lemon juice is poured in, and five minutes later - a wine marinade, in which pears were puked. Almost immediately, the fruit falls into the mixture and is maintained for a quarter of an hour under weak boiling. When the contents of the saucepan completely cool down, it is put in the refrigerator for another 24 hours. During this time, the pear in wine will be syrup-saturated and will become simply magical in taste. After decanting the liquid, the dessert is consumed with excitement.

Interesting stuffing

Pear in wine is delicious and without additions. But you can make it a true masterpiece. To do this, you need to prepare a "stuffing", which after cooling is filled with a cavity in the pear. One fruit will need a couple of dried figs, four dates, a tablespoon mascarpone and a piece of chocolate. Chocolate and cheese are rubbed, dried fruits are very finely chopped. All components are mixed and laid in a bakery bag - its application greatly facilitates the process of filling the dessert.

You can stay on another kind of filling. For her, an incomplete glass of chopped walnuts is dried in a frying pan or in an oven, after which the kernels are rubbed into the smallest crumb and beat with a very thick, "market" sour cream. You can replace it with the same mascarpone, if the funds permit. Finally, the cream is savored by the juice of an orange. And if you think that the dessert is not sweet enough - then sugar. Although in most cases, aging in wine with sugar is quite enough.

Curious variations

The wine, in which the pears were being prepared, should not be poured into the toilet bowl - a wasteful consumption of a valuable product. You can strain the liquid - and you will get a very pleasant and almost non-alcoholic drink. You can leave the "marinade" boil up to a thickening - and at your disposal will be a wonderful sauce, which you can water the finished dessert.

If you do not have the time or the desire to bother with the filling, you can refine and so matchless pears in red wine with chocolate. It is only necessary to melt the half-plates slowly (on the basis of the same four things) and to pour fruit on the mass. They say, are especially elegant in taste and seductive in appearance pears, poured with white chocolate.

Alternatively, you can stuff the fruits with ice cream. Depending on the chosen delicacy, you can play with flavor notes. Pistachio, chocolate, vanilla - and every time a completely new experience.

Happy and delicious holiday!