Low-fat Christmas recipe for 4 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has sugar, honey, redcurrant, fruit, pear, cranberry and creme fraiche.
Poached pears in spiced tea
Course: Low-fat Christmas
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
5 mins
Ingredients
- Sugar: 50g golden caster sugar
- Creme Fraiche: yogurt or sweetened creme fraiche with a little orange juice or zest, to serve
- Honey: 1 tbsp clear honey
- Cranberry: handful fresh cranberries
- Pear: 4 firm pears, peeled, halved and core scooped out with a spoon
- Fruit: 2 spiced fruit tea bags (Pukka's 'revitalise' is good, or apple & cinnamon)
- Redcurrant: 1 tbsp redcurrant or cranberry jelly
Directions
- Put the sugar, honey, jelly and tea bags into a big saucepan with 600ml water and bring to the boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Add the pear halves, then cover and simmer for 12-15 mins until the pears are just tender - poke them with a skewer or the tip of a knife.
- Lift out the pears, then turn up the heat, throw in the cranberries and boil for a few mins until syrupy. Discard the tea bags. Serve the pears with the warm syrup poured over and a spoonful of creme fraiche or yogurt.
