Poached pears – Pear desserts

Updated On Updated September 27, 2018

Poached pears is an easy and exquisite French dessert. This is no bake dessert, spicy poached pears in red wine. To my mind, this is one of the most beautiful pear desserts – soft fruit with spicy winter flavors.

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Best served as it is, but may be with ice cream or yogurt on the side.

Poached pears is an easy and exquisite French dessert. This is no bake dessert, spicy poached pears in red wine. To my mind, this is one of the most beautiful pear desserts - soft fruit with spicy winter flavors. Poached pear in red wine, served on the white plate

No fail pear desserts

What I loved about making this dessert the most, is that there is no pastry, no extra calories and no baking needed. Almost no fail dessert! The worst thing you can make to this dessert is overcooking the pears. In this case fruits will become too soft and may break on the plate. However, you can always serve the pears halved, with an ice cream on top.

Poached pears is an easy and exquisite French dessert. This is no bake dessert, spicy poached pears in red wine. To my mind, this is one of the most beautiful pear desserts - soft fruit with spicy winter flavors. Poached pear in red wine, served on the white plate, poaring the wine sauce on top.

One important thing you need to know before making this dessert, is that you need to take time carefully peeling the pears to make this dessert look stunning. I used my vegetable peeler for this.

Cooking the pears & beautiful color

I used Conference pears for this recipe, but you can use Bosc or Anjous. After cooking the pears leave them in the same liquid with spices to rest for about two hours, or better overnight in the fridge. The more time the poached pears will spend in the wine, the more vibrant color they will have. Make sure, that the wine covers the pears, when cooking, and rotate the fruits from time to time. Moreover, cook the pears on low, so that flavors develop and intensify slowly.

To check, if the pears are ready, gently stab with the knife in the bottom of each pear. If they are soft, remove the pan from the stove. Remember, that the pears will continue cooking in the hot wine, but don’t drain them!

Poached pears is an easy and exquisite French dessert. This is no bake dessert, spicy poached pears in red wine. To my mind, this is one of the most beautiful pear desserts - soft fruit with spicy winter flavors. Poached pear in red wine, served on the white plate

Spices for poached pears

The main spices I used for this pear dessert are cinnamon, cloves and cardamom. I added 1 pyramid bag of high quality Spiced Chai tea. Chai tea is black tea with cardamom, cinnamon, ginger. You can also add vanilla to your taste for this pear recipe. Moreover, I added the zest of 1/2 orange to boost the flavor.

Which wine to use for the poached pears

This is a great recipe, if you have leftover red wine after holidays. You can also use the wine that you bought, but it was not good for your taste – spices will transform it to the mulled wine. I recommend using cheap red fruity wine for this recipe, and leave the costly for the drinking. Moreover, you can use, for example, Ruby Port or Pinot Noir. The wine will deliver rich and a little bit tannin flavor, perfectly paired with the sweetness of the pears and spices.

If you want to make this dessert kids-friendly, you can use non-alcoholic red wine or red grape juice instead.

Poached pears is an easy and exquisite French dessert. This is no bake dessert, spicy poached pears in red wine. To my mind, this is one of the most beautiful pear desserts - soft fruit with spicy winter flavors. Poached pear in red wine, served on the white plate

Serving poached pears with sauce

If you want to make syrup from the wine, where the pears were poached, you need to double the amount of the sugar in recipe. After removing the pears from the wine, simmer it until the liquid evaporates, reduced in half. However, I didn’t make the syrup and served poached pears with a few tablespoons of mulled wine.

To my mind, these poached pears are best served warm, especially in the winter season. You can reheat the pears in the same pot with spiced wine.

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Poached Pears

Recipe AuthorCooking Journey Blog
5 from 3 votes
Poached pears is an easy and exquisite French dessert. This is no bake dessert, spicy poached pears in red wine.
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine French
Servings3
Equipment
  • a pot
  • a spatula or spoon
  • fruit peeler or knife


Ingredients
  • 1 bottle red wine
  • 3 pears
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 2 cloves
  • 1 tea bag spicy chai tea
  • 4/7 cups sugar + ½ cup more
  • 1/2 orange zested

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Instructions
 
  • Put the wine and sugar in the pot, bring to the boil, stirring until sugar dissolves.
    1 bottle red wine, 4/7 cups sugar
  • Meanwhile gently peel the pears, moving from top to the bottom, leaving the stem.
    3 pears
  • Add pears, tea bag, orange zest and spices in the pot with wine. Lower the heat. Simmer 20-30 minutes until pears are cooked. Make sure the pears are covered with wine, rotate them from time to time.
    3 pears, 1 cinnamon stick, 1 tea bag spicy chai tea, 1/2 orange, 2 cloves
  • Leave the pears in the same liquid for at least 2 hours or overnight in the fridge.
  • Cut the bottom of each pear so it seats straight on the plate with the stem, looking on top.
  • Sieve the wine sauce.
    Add more sugar and cook until it reduces in half (if you want syrupy consistence).
  • Serve one pear per person, pour few tablespoons of wine sauce on top of the pear.
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Notes
*Check if the pears are cooked, stabbing with a knife the bottom of each pear. Remember, the pears will continue cooking after removing them from heat.
*You can reheat the pears in the same red wine sauce.
*You can use 4,5 g /1,6 oz of Stevia powder instead of sugar.
Nutrition Facts
Poached Pears
Amount per Serving
Calories
475
% Daily Value*
Fat
 
1
g
2
%
Saturated Fat
 
1
g
6
%
Polyunsaturated Fat
 
1
g
Monounsaturated Fat
 
1
g
Sodium
 
13
mg
1
%
Potassium
 
571
mg
16
%
Carbohydrates
 
75
g
25
%
Fiber
 
7
g
29
%
Sugar
 
59
g
66
%
Protein
 
1
g
2
%
Vitamin A
 
102
IU
2
%
Vitamin C
 
19
mg
23
%
Calcium
 
58
mg
6
%
Iron
 
2
mg
11
%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Keyword chai, easy, red wine, spicy fruit, vegan

Comments COMMENTS

  1. Poached pears are definitely a beautiful dessert! I never have tasted this before, but now knowing how easy it is, I will have to add to my list! Thank you for sharing!

    1. Cooking Journey

      This a perfect dessert and simple dessert! The most difficult part is peeling the pear perfectly 😀

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