Red Wine Poached Pears with Mascarpone Filling

Name: Red Wine Poached Pears with Mascarpone Filling
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 6 firm Bartlett pears; 2 bay leaves; 2 Tbsps butter; 1 pinch Pinch cinnamon; 2 cinnamon sticks; 118 milliliters heavy cream; 454 grams mascarpone cheese, softened; 118 milliliters powdered sugar; 1 bottle red wine; 473 milliliters sugar; 1 vanilla bean, whole

Red Wine Poached Pears with Mascarpone Filling might be just the beverage you are searching for. One serving contains 962 calories, 7g of protein, and 46g of fat. This gluten free and vegetarian recipe serves 6. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour.

Instructions

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Peel pears and leave stem intact. In a large saucepan, bring wine and an equal amount of cold water to a simmer. Split vanilla bean lengthwise and add to wine and water mixture.

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Vanilla Bean

Pear

Water

Wine

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Sauce Pan

Add cinnamon sticks, bay leaves and sugar, to taste.

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Cinnamon Stick

Bay Leaves

Sugar

Add pears to liquid and simmer for about 20 minutes or until tender. Cool pears in wine mixture to room temperature. You can refrigerate them in the poaching liquid until you're ready to fill them.

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Pear

Wine

Remove stems from pears and set stems aside. Core pears with an apple corer, leaving pear whole.

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Apple

Pear

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Apple Corer

Whisk together mascarpone cheese, heavy cream, pinch cinnamon and powdered sugar until smooth.

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Mascarpone

Powdered Sugar

Heavy Cream

Cinnamon

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Whisk

Transfer to a pastry bag, or if you do not have one, use wax paper tightly wrapped into a cone with the corner snipped off. Pipe filling into cored pears and finish by putting the stems gently into the mascarpone filling on top of the pears.

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Mascarpone

Pear

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Pastry Bag