Slow-Cooked Gingered Pears

Name: Slow-Cooked Gingered Pears
Prep time: 4 h 35 min
Cook time: 4 h 35 min
Total time: 4 h 35 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 55 grams packed brown sugar; 2 Tbsps butter, cubed; 6 servings Vanilla ice cream and caramel ice cream topping, optional; 70 milliliters finely chopped crystallized ginger; 6 mediums Bartlett or DAnjou pears; 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel; 27 grams chopped pecans

If you want to add more Southern recipes to your recipe box, Slow-Cooked Gingered Pears might be a recipe you should try. This recipe serves 6. One portion of this dish contains roughly 2g of protein, 7g of fat, and a total of 360 calories. This recipe covers 5% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It works well as a side dish. This recipe from Taste of Home requires brown sugar, pecans, butter, and crystallized ginger. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free and lacto ovo vegetarian diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 4 hours and 35 minutes. Gingered Roast Beef, Slow Cooked Applesauce, and Slow Cooked Corned Beef and Cabbage are very similar to this recipe.

Instructions

In a small bowl, combine the ginger, brown sugar, pecans and lemon peel. Using a melon baller or long-handled spoon, core pears to within 1/4 in. of bottom. Spoon ginger mixture into the center of each.

Ingredients you will need

Brown Sugar