Name: Honey-roast pears with orange-blossom and yoghurt
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 200 gm honey; Juice and thinly peeled rind of 1 orange and 1 lemon; 1 vanilla bean, split and seeds scraped; 4 beurre bosc pears, unpeeled, halved, cores removed with a melon-baller; 2 tsp orange-blossom water, or to taste; To serve: thick plain yoghurt and chopped pistachios

Honey-roast pears with orange-blossom and yoghurt

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for honey-roast pears with orange-blossom and yoghurt.

Serves 4

Prep

10M

Cook

35M

Total

45M

The pears can be prepared ahead and gently warmed just before serving.

Ingredients

200 gm honey

Juice and thinly peeled rind of 1 orange and 1 lemon

1 vanilla bean, split and seeds scraped

4 beurre bosc pears, unpeeled, halved, cores removed with a melon-baller

2 tsp orange-blossom water, or to taste

To serve: thick plain yoghurt and chopped pistachios

Method

Main

1.Preheat oven to 200C. Simmer honey, juices, rinds, and vanilla bean and seeds in a small saucepan over medium heat until reduced to a light syrup (8-10 minutes). Place pears, cut-side up in a roasting pan large enough to fit pears snugly. Pour over honey mixture and roast, basting occasionally, until tender and beginning to caramelise (20-25 minutes). Remove pears from pan, stir through orange-blossom water and serve pears and syrup with yoghurt and pistachios.