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Cassis & bay-baked pears with blackberries

Cassis & bay-baked pears with blackberries served in a bowl

Cassis & bay-baked pears with blackberries

Name: Cassis & bay-baked pears with blackberries
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 6 just-ripe pears; 100ml cassis; 300ml red wine; 60g caster sugar; 3 bay leaves; 150g blackberries

Diana Henry

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Serves 6

Easy

Prep: 10 mins

Cook: 20 mins - 45 mins

plus cooling

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Impress dinner guests with this grown-up dessert. Pears are wonderful for soaking up flavours – here that's cassis, red wine, blackberry and bay leaves

Gluten-free

Vegetarian

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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6 just-ripe pears
100ml cassis
300ml red wine
60g caster sugar
3 bay leaves
150g blackberries

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Nutrition: Per serving

kcal213
fat0.2g

low
saturates0g
carbs31g
sugars31g
fibre5g
protein1g
salt0.02g

Method

step 1

Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Halve the pears – you don’t need to peel or core them – and put them, cut-side up, in a baking dish in which the fruit can sit quite snugly in a single layer. Pour the cassis and red wine over the pears, sprinkle with the sugar and tuck the bay leaves under the fruit.
step 2

Bake – spooning the juices over the pears from time to time – until the fruits are tender right through to the centre (how long this takes depends on the ripeness of the fruit; start checking after 20 mins, but it could take as long as 45 mins). It’s a good idea to turn the pears over a couple of times while they’re cooking so that they are cut-side down in the liquor for part of the cooking time.
step 3

By the time the fruit is cooked, the juice around it won’t be thick, but should be syrupy and sweet enough to serve as it is. If you don’t think it is, then remove the pears and bay leaves and reduce the juices by boiling them for a little while, leave to cool, then pour them back into the dish with the pears. Leave at room temperature and add the berries about 30 mins before you want to serve, spooning the juices over them, otherwise they get very soft sitting in the red wine syrup.

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AUTHOR CREDIT

Recipes adapted from 'From the Oven to the Table' by Diana Henry (Mitchell Beazley). Photography credit: Laura Edwards.

USE UP LEFTOVERS

Drain leftover pears and berries, reserving some cassis syrup. Chop the pears and mix back in with the berries and a little syrup, then tip into a baking dish. Top with crumble and bake until golden. Serve with any extra syrup and ice cream.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2019

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