Pears Poached in Red Wine Recipes | French Desserts

Pears Poached in Red Wine Recipes | French Desserts

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This delicious French dish combines red wine poached pears with an earthy spinach and Roquefort cheese salad.

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Ingredients

  • 60g caster sugar
  • 400ml good-quality red wine
  • 200ml water
  • Zest of ½ lemon, cut into a long strip with most of the pith removed
  • 2 cloves
  • 3 unripe pears (Conference are good), stalks on, weighing 200g each
  • 2 tsp walnut oil
  • 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 6 large handfuls young spinach leaves, washed and dried
  • 90g Roquefort, crumbled
  • A small bunch chives, finely chopped

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