- Rating:
- Servings:
- 4
- Difficulty:
- Medium
- Total Time:
- Recipe By:
- Martin Yan
Ingredients
- 3 cups Water
- 2/3 cup Sugar
- 1/4 cup Plum Wine
- 3 tablespoon Lemon Juice
- 4 slices Ginger Root lightly crushed
- 3 Korean Pears
- 2 tablespoons Plum Sauce
- Chopped Crystallized Ginger for garnish
Directions
Combine water, sugar, wine, lemon juice, and ginger in a saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat.
Peel Asian Pears with a vegetable peeler, keeping stems intact. If you wish, remove cores from bottom of pears with a melon baller. As you peel each pear, place it in the liquid. Simmer, uncovered, until pears are barely tender, 20 - 30 minutes, depending on ripeness of fruit. Turn pears occasionally during cooking.
Lift out pears with a slotted spoon and place in a wide bowl. Simmer syrup until it is reduced to 1 cup. Add plum sauce to syrup; cook until heated through. Pour syrup over pears. Let stand until cool.
Serve at room temperature or cover and refrigerate, then serve cold. Sprinkle a little chopped crystallized ginger over each serving as garnish.
