Luscious Pears In Raspberry Sauce

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 3 firm bosc pears or 3 bartlett pears
• 1/2 cup fresh orange juice
• 1/4 cup raspberry jam (homemade or the best quality store bought) or 1/4 cup raspberry jelly (homemade or the best quality store bought)
• 2 tablespoons mirin (can substitute wine or fruit liquer-optional)
• 1 pinch cinnamon or 1 pinch nutmeg or 1 pinch cardamom
• 1 inch piece vanilla pod, slit down the side (my addition)
• 1 pinch salt
• fresh mint

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 cut the pears in half lengthwise, remove seeds, peel and core. place the pears cut side down in an oven-proof baking dish.
• 3 combine the juice, jam, mirin (or substitute), cinnamom, nutmeg or cardamom, vanilla pod piece and salt.
• 4 pour this mixture over the pears; cover baking dish with aluminum foil.
• 5 bake pears until soft, about 25 minutes.
• 6 remover the vanilla pod and arrange the pears cut side up on a serving platter. spoon remaining sauce from the baking dish over the pears. garnish with mint leaves or verbena leaves if desired.