Oven-Poached Pears With Lemon, Honey And Nutmeg

Recipe Ingredients

2		Ripe pears - halved, cored, (large)
		And each half cut into 6 wedges
4 tablespoons	60ml	Honey
4 teaspoons	20ml	Honey
4 teaspoons	20ml	Dried currants
1 teaspoon	5ml	Grated lemon peel
		Ground nutmeg - to taste
3/4 cup	177ml	Low-fat vanilla yogurt

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place large baking sheet in oven to heat. Cut 4 sheets of foil, each about 12 inches long.

Place 1 foil sheet on work surface. Arrange 6 pear wedges, overlapping slightly, on 1 half of foil. Drizzle with 1 tablespoon honey. Sprinkle with 1 teaspoon currants, 1/4 teaspoon lemon peel and pinch of nutmeg. Fold foil over, enclosing contents completely and crimping edges tightly to seal. Repeat with remaining foil sheets, pears, honey, currants, lemon peel and nutmeg.

Place foil packets on heated baking sheet. Bake until pears are tender, about 5 minutes. Allow to cool completely.

Open foil packets into 4 shallow bowls to retain juices. Top each serving with 3 tablespoons vanilla yogurt.

This recipe yields 4 servings.

Source:
Bon Appetit, March 1998

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