Low Fat Wine-Poached Pears Recipe

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Low Fat Wine-Poached Pears Recipe

Ingredients

  • 6 bosc pears
  • 1 cup sauterne, or port
  • 1 cup water
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 cinnamon sticks
  • 5 whole cloves
  • 1 lemon, cut in strips, zest of
  • 1/2 lemon, juice of

Method

  1. Peel pears, leaving stem intact.
  2. Using a small melon baller, remove stems and seeds from bottoms of pears.
  3. In a saucepan that will accommodate pears upright, combine wine, water, sugar, cinnamon sticks, cloves, lemon zest and lemon juice.
  4. Bring to a boil.
  5. Add pears, cook over medium heat, maintaining a boil for 5 minutes.
  6. Remove from heat, allow pears to cool slowly.
  7. Baste pears occasionally with poaching liquid.
  8. When completely cooled, chill pears.
  9. Serve on individual dessert plates; spoon liquid over pears.
  10. Per serving: About 180 cal, 1 g pro, 40 g car,1 g fat, 3% cal from fat, 0 mg chol, 3 mg sod, 6 g fiber.

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