Pears poached in red wine

Name: Pears poached in red wine
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 80 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Cold
Ingredients: 750.00 ml wine red; 500.00 ml sugar; 1.00 Litres water; 250.00 ml orange juice; 10.00 ml orange zest only; 10.00 ml cardamom crushed; 2.00 cinnamon stick; 8.00 pears; 1.00 Litres ice cream vanilla; 0.00 christmas pudding

8 servings Prep: 30 mins, Cooking: 50 mins

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By Food24 November 03 2009

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Ingredients (10)

750.00 ml	wine — red
500.00 ml	sugar
1.00 Litres	water
250.00 ml	orange juice
10.00 ml	orange — zest only
10.00 ml	cardamom — crushed
2.00	cinnamon — stick
8.00	pears

To serve:

1.00 Litres	ice cream — vanilla
0.00	christmas pudding

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Method:

1. Mix all the ingredients, except pears, in a large saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves and mixture comes to boil.
2. Add pears, reduce heat and simmer
slowly until pears are tender when
pierced with knife, about 25 minutes.
3. Transfer pears to a plate. Boil liquid in saucepan until reduced to 3 cups,
about 20 minutes.
4. Arrange 1 warm pear, a slice of Christmas pudding and 1 scoop of ice cream
on each of 8 plates. Drizzle some poaching
liquid over. Serve immediately.