White Wine Pear

Prep: 15min
| Servings: 4 | Cook: 25min
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White wine pear is a recipe with fresh ingredients from the core fruit category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!

Ingredients

  • 4 large ripe pears
  • juice of 1 lemon
  • 4 tbsp sugar
  • 500 ml white wine
  • fine sponge cake (biscuit)
  • Mint leaves

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Wash, peel, and drizzle pears with lemon juice.

  2. 2.

    Dissolve sugar in a little water and simmer gently for 5 minutes. Add wine and pears, cover, and steam until pears are tender, about 15 minutes.

  3. 3.

    Remove pears from the liquid and arrange on plates.

  4. 4.

    Reduce the wine liquid to a syrupy consistency and pour over the pears before serving.

  5. 5.

    Serve pears with sponge cake pieces and garnish with mint leaves.