Spiced Pears with Almond Chocolate Crème Fraîche

Name: Spiced Pears With Almond Chocolate Crème Fraîche
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 4 Williams pears, halved; 1 cinnamon stick; 1 star anise; 8 cardamom pods, lightly crushed; 375ml muscat or preferred sweet white wine; 2 tbsp honey; 75g ground almonds; 250g crème fraîche; 40g dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids minimum), finely grated; 1 tbsp icing sugar

by Rukmini Iyer from The Roasting Tin: Deliciously Simple One-Dish Dinners

Baked in muscat until sweet and syrupy, with cinnamon and star anise, these tender pears are complemented with a decadent chocolate crème fraîche.

Gluten-Free Family Friendly Dinner Party

Serves 4

Total 50 min

Prep 10 min

Cook 40 min

Easy

Introduction from Rukmini Iyer

If you make no other dessert from this book, make this. The chocolate in the almond crème fraîche melts on contact with the hot, yielding, syrupy pears – words fail. Try it and see.