There’s a lot you can do with pears. Bake them into tarts, roast them until they’re warm and golden, throw them into a pear salad or turn them into a delicious pear jam for dolloping onto pikelets. The choice is yours.
In our best pear recipes, we celebrate the fruit in sweet and savoury recipes so that you can double down the pear recipes when you have a surplus of them.
Here are our very best pear recipes for seasonal cooking.
Honey cheesecake with caramelised ginger pears
Spiced pear, buttermilk and almond skillet cake
Shiraz gin and pear brioche cake with gin ice-cream
Fig, prosciutto, pear and witlof salad with pomegranate vinaigrette
Brigitte Hafner’s Italian pear and polenta torte
Pear and vanilla soufflés with apple sorbet
Grilled spatchcock with pear and cabbage salad, hazelnuts and sherry
Roast pork cutlets with pear, witlof and hazelnut salad
Radish, pear and seaweed salad with miso dressing
Honey and saffron roasted pears with spiced yoghurt
Pear brioche tart with maple custard cream
Baked matcha custard with ginger-poached pears
Curtis Stone’s maple pear and muesli crumble
Stokehouse Q’s dark chocolate pots de crème with ginger pear
Bar Rochford’s hay panna cotta with chamomile pears and malt crumb
Jaci Koludrovic’s caramelised Marsala pear crostata
Slow-roasted leg of lamb with rosé pears and cloves of garlic
Roast pears with maple syrup and vanilla crème fraîche
