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
