Tea Poached Pears in chocolate sauce

Original Blog Post: https://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2018/01/tea-poached-pears-in-chocolate-sauce.html

Ingredients

3-4 bosc pears

3 cups water

4 tea bags (2 country peach passion 2 raspberry zinger)

¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons of brown sugar

¼ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon lemon juice

1 cinnamon stick

½ vanilla bean pod

For the sauce

Reduced poaching liquid

2 oz semi sweet chocolate chips

Greedy Tips:

• I used Celestial seasonings herbal teas in the flavors country peach passion and raspberry zinger.
• The chocolate sauce will not stick to the pears, they are too saturated, and their surface is wet, it will just lightly coat the outside and then slide right off. So don’t worry if you see that happening.
• Its best to give it a nice dip and get a thin coating, and drizzle the rest of the chocolate sauce on some ice cream or over the pears sliced
• I highly recommend a strawberry or any other berry flavored ice cream. It really accentuated the underlying berry flavors in the tea and chocolate sauce. Especially if the ice-cream brand has actual berries in the cream, it’s a plus!
• If you want to remove the core of the pear you can use a melon baller and scoop it out from the bottom before the overnight soak.
• Don’t allow the sauce to get too cold before spooning over the pears because it will get slightly hard and sticky. You don’t want it piping hot, just a nice warm to room temp feel.

Instructions:

• In a small pot combine water, teabags, sugar, cinnamon, lemon juice salt and vanilla beans
• Bring to boil for 5 minutes
• Peel the pears, keep the stem intact, slice the bottom to it can stand upright
• Reduce the heat and place the pears in the liquid cover and allow it to simmer for 20 minutes
• Make sure to rotate the pears so they soak evenly, I rotated once after 10 minutes
• After 20 minutes remove from the heat and set aside to cool uncovered
• Once cool let it soak overnight in the refrigerator
• Remove the pears from the liquid and place the sauce on the flames to a rich syrupy consistency
• Once the sauce is reduced remove from the heat and stir in the chocolate chips until melted and the sauce is smooth
• Allow the sauce to cool, then spoon over the pears and serve