Poached vanilla pears with chocolate sauce
7
Points®
Total time: 35 min • Prep: 10 min • Cook: 25 min • Serves: 4 • Difficulty: Easy
These poached pears are delicately flavoured with vanilla bean and are perfect with some lovely choc sauce and vanilla ice cream
Ingredients
Vanilla bean
1 whole, split, seeds scrapped
Caster sugar
2 tbs
Pear(s)
4 medium, (Packam), peeled, halved, cored, stems intact
Skim milk
⅔ cup(s), (160ml)
Cocoa powder
1 tbs, Dutch
Cornflour
3 tsp
Reduced fat vanilla ice cream
4 medium, small
Flaked almonds
2 tbs, toasted
Instructions
1
Place the vanilla bean, seeds and half of the sugar in a small saucepan with 2. Cups (625ml) water. Bring to the boil. Add the pear. Reduce the heat and simmer, covered, for 25 minutes or until tender. Transfer to a plate.
2
Meanwhile, whisk half of the milk with the cocoa powder, cornflour and the remaining sugar in a small saucepan until smooth. Add the remaining milk and bring to the boil. Cook, stirring, over medium-high heat until the sauce thickens. Set aside to cool slightly.
3
Divide the pears among serving glasses. Top with a scoop of ice-cream and drizzle with the warm chocolate sauce. Sprinkle with the almonds to serve.
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