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Simple, fast and beautiful. I like to serve this on
a large red soup dish, giving it a dramatic look If
you like nuts, add some toasted pecans as garnish.
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| ripe pears |
6 - skin removed, sliced into 8 sections |
| vanilla bean |
1 - optional |
| cinnamon |
1/8 teaspoon |
| nutmeg |
1/8 teaspoon (preferably fresh) |
| ginger |
1 tablespoon fresh grated or 1/2 teaspoon
ground |
| sweet wine (Muscat) |
1/2 cup |
| brown sugar |
2 tablespoons |
| butter |
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| vanilla ice cream |
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| chocolate |
enough to shave on each serving |
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• Heat sauté pan with butter
• Scrape the meat from the vanilla bean into the
butter
• Add pears and all the spices and sauté until
tender — 5 minutes
• Add brown sugar
• Sauté until sugar had melted and coated the pears
• Remove pan from heat and add Muscat
• Return pan to heat and turn up flame to high
• Let reduce until a smooth syrup coats pears
• Place ice cream in the middle of the plate
• Tops with pears and shave chocolate
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Spiced Sautéed Pears over Vanilla Bean Ice Cream with Shaved Chocolate
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