Dessert

Poached Pear in Spiced Red Wine with Crispy Tuile & Crème Fraîche Quenelle

Name: Poached Pear in Spiced Red Wine with Crispy Tuile & Crème Fraîche Quenelle
Prep time: 8 min
Cook time: 32 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: 2 firm but ripe pears (Bosc or Comice), peeled and left whole with stems intact; 1½ cups dry red wine (a Burgundy or Côtes du Rhône); ½ cup ruby port wine; ⅓ cup honey; 1 cinnamon stick; 2 whole cloves; 1 star anise; 1 strip orange zest; 1 vanilla bean, split and scraped (or ½ tsp extract); 6 black peppercorns; ½ cup water; For the tuiles: 3 tbsp unsalted butter, softened; 3 tbsp honey; 3 tbsp sliced almonds, finely chopped; 2 tbsp all-purpose flour; ⅛ tsp fleur de sel; For serving: ⅓ cup crème fraîche; ½ tsp honey (for crème fraîche)

A refined French dessert that feels restaurant-level but is entirely forgiving: a whole pear gently poached in spiced red wine until glossy and tender, served in its own deep-burgundy reduction alongside a crispy almond tuile and a quenelle of crème fraîche. The technique is straightforward—the payoff is dramatic and felt in every refined bite.

973calper serving 6gprotein 126gcarbs 33gfat 8min prep 32min cook 2serves

✓ Macros from a nutrition database · per serving · developed by The Delicious Kitchen with AI assistance, not independently kitchen-tested · how we calculate this