Poached Pears with Chocolate

Course:

Dessert

Practical information

Prep time

15 min
Cooking

10 min
Ready in

25 min

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You can drop steps 1 and 2 and buy canned pears. This dessert can then become very easy to make and the special "last minute friends over" ; you can impress a lot by "improvising" this type of dessert...You can chose to serve the chocolate separately in small saucers.

Recipe's Ingredients

4 big pears, ripe and tasty
½ lemon
8 vanilla ice cream balls
2 tablespoons sour cream

70 g sugar
200 g black chocolate
250 ml water

Recipe preparation steps
1

Peel the pears and rub them right away with lemon to keep them from getting dark ; cut them in halves and take the core away with a pointed knife.
2

In medium heavy saucepan, pour the water, sugar, and the juice of left lemon, mix together and bring to the boil ; let simmer for 3 minutes, then put the pears in, cover with a lid and let the fruits poach for 5 minutes, turning them upside down once or twice. Strain (but keep the juice) them and let them cool down.
3

Display two half pears in each of the rib dish.
4

Cut the chocolate in small squares and put them in a small heavy saucepan with 4 spoons of the pear juice from cooking. Melt the whole over a low heat, stirring non stop with a wooden spoon until smooth. The chocolate must not stick to the pan.
5

When the chocolate is ready, quickly put 2 balls of vanilla ice-cream on each pear.
6

Add the sour cream to the chocolate. Pour it evenly on top of ice-cream in each dish and serve immediately.
Ready !