Baked Pears with Currants and Cinnamon

Name: Baked Pears with Currants and Cinnamon
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 10 ripe but firm Comice or Anjou pears, unpeeled; 158 milliliters (packed) dark brown sugar; 158 milliliters dried currants; 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 158 milliliters sugar; 158 milliliters (or more) water

Need a gluten free and vegan side dish? Baked Pears with Currants and Cinnamon could be an amazing recipe to try. One serving contains 237 calories, 1g of protein, and 0g of fat. This recipe covers 4% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 10. A mixture of water, brown sugar, ground cinnamon, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F. Using apple corer, cut through stem of each pear and all the way through pear to base to remove core. Trim bottoms so that pears stand straight. Arrange pears in 15x10x2-inch glass baking dish.

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Apple

Pear

Base

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Glass Baking Pan

Apple Corer

Oven

Combine sugar, brown sugar and cinnamon in medium bowl.

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Brown Sugar

Cinnamon

Sugar

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Bowl

Add currants. Fill pear cavities with half of sugar mixture. Stir cup water into remaining sugar mixture; pour around pears. (Can be made 8 hours ahead. Cover; chill.)

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Currants

Pear

Sugar

Water

Bake pears uncovered until tender and sauce is syrupy, adding more water to dish by 1/4 cupfuls if syrup becomes too thick and basting occasionally, about 50 minutes.

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Pear

Syrup

Water

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Serve pears warm with syrup.

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Syrup