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Vanilla Baked Pears with Creamy Mascarpone

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Cook Time: 45 minutes
Servings: 4
Author: Meggen

Ingredients

  • 4 unit Bosc Pears peeled, halved and core removed. You can also use Bartlett or Anjou
  • ½ cup sugar divided
  • 1 zest lemon
  • 1 unit Juice of lemon
  • 1 unit vanilla bean split lengthwise and seeds scraped out
  • 1 unit small container of Mascarpone cheese softened
  • ⅓ cup heavy cream
  • 1 cup sweet wine- such as Reisling

Instructions

  • Pre Heat Oven to 375
  • Place prepared pears cut side up in a buttered baking dish so that they are touching- this will help produce a bit of steam. Pour lemon juice over pears. Mix lemon zest with 1/4 cup of sugar and the vanilla bean seeds. Sprinkle over the top of the pears.
  • Bake for 30 minutes, basting every 10 minutes with the wine.
  • After 30 minutes, turn the pears over and bake another 15 minutes until the pears are fork tender. Continue basting.
  • While the pears are baking, mix remaining 1/ 4 cup of sugar, cream and mascarpone until smooth and creamy . Once the pears are finished baking, add any juice from the baking dish to the mascarpone cream mixture .
  • Serve the pears warm with the mascarpone sauce poured over.
  • You can add red table grapes halfway through the cooking process for an added touch.
  • This recipe serves 4.