Thursday, November 29, 2007

Pears in wine with blueberries and chocolate

A friend of ours brought this to our Thanksgiving bash:
Ingredients:
- Pears 4
- Wine (She brought Dry Riesling but I guess Chardonnay or any sweet white wine would work as well, I used red wine and it was great)
- Cup of blueberries (she used frozen ones) mixed and strained to make blueberry sauce. I skip straining I just use my blender to pulverize blueberries properly to make even richer sauce.
- Chocolate chips (sounds like no desert is complete without chocolate)
- chopped pistachios

Halve and core couple of pears (she did 4 big ones = 8 halves) – place in the oven proof pan cut side down (glass is probably preferred)
Pour some of the wine over the pears and put into oven preheated to 350 - 20minutes (I think)
Carefully remove from oven,
Pour some of the wine into blueberries and heat up on the stove.
Turn the pears cut side up and sprinkle with chocolate and pistachios – let melt on its own for a while and then drizzle with warm blueberry sauce.

I must say it was decadent – and it came from diet cookbook! (notice
no extra sugar is involved - I think this is where sweet wine would come in handy)

Have a happy holidays.

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