Stewed Pears & Red Currant Juice
Equipment
- Cooking pan
Ingredients
- 1 kg Pears
- 250 ml Red Currant Juice
- One drop Red Food Coloring optional; just to make the pears extra red
- 250 ml Water
- 200 gram Sugar
- 1 Cinnamon Stick
- 2 Star Anise
Instructions
- Clean & peel the pears.
- Add the pears, red currant juice, water, coloring and spices to a cooking pan. Bring everything to a boil. Make sure the pears are just covered with liquid. Depending on your pan size, you may need to add some extra water.
- Cook the pears for 30-45 minutes on a low heat.
- Then remove the pears and let the syrup reduce until it has the consistency you like.
- Keep the pears in the cooled down syrup until you are going to use them.
- Serve the pears in the syrup. In for an even bigger party? Add ice cream or vanilla custard! [Happy days]