Poached Pears with Chocolate-Cranberry Sauce
8
Points®
Total time: 37 min • Prep: 15 min • Cook: 22 min • Serves: 4 • Difficulty: Easy
This elegant dessert is the perfect ending to a fall meal. Getting in those fruit servings never tasted so good!
Ingredients
Cranberry juice cocktail
¾ fl oz
Pear
4 medium, peeled, cored with stem intact and sliced in half
Canned cranberry sauce
6 oz, jellied
Milk chocolate chips
1½ oz, about 3 tbsp chips
Raspberries
½ cup(s)
Water
1¼ cup(s)
Instructions
1
Bring juice and water to a boil in a large saucepan over high heat; place pears in pan, cover and simmer on low heat until pears are tender when pieced with a fork, about 15 minutes (turn pears several times during cooking). Remove saucepan from heat, let cool to room temperature and refrigerate until ready to serve.
2
Combine cranberry sauce and chocolate chips in a medium saucepan; melt over medium heat, whisking occasionally, until smooth.
3
Remove pears from liquid; drain. To serve, spoon about 2 1/2 tablespoons chocolate-cranberry sauce onto each of 4 dessert plates. Top each with 2 pear halves and decorate with 2 tablespoons of raspberries. Serve immediately.
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