Baked pears in puff pastry
Baked pears in puff pastry

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Baked pears in puff pastry is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Baked pears in puff pastry is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

Puff Pastry Cinnamon Baked Pears are an easy, yet fancy and delicious fall dessert. Ripened pears are peeled, cored, and sprinkled with sugar, cinnamon, and cardamom, then wrapped in puff pastry, brushed with egg wash, and baked to golden brown perfection. Starting at the bottom of a pear, wrap a pastry strip around pear, adding additional strips until pear is completely wrapped in pastry. Repeat with remaining pears and puff pastry.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook baked pears in puff pastry using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Baked pears in puff pastry:
  1. Take 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  2. Get 50 gms unsalted butter, cut into 1/2 inches pieces
  3. Take 3-5 tablespoons ice water
  4. Get 1/4 teaspoon salt
  5. Get Ingredients for making the baked pears in puff pastry
  6. Take 2 Pears
  7. Take Sheet Puff Pastry dough
  8. Prepare Milk
  9. Get 5 tsp Nutella
  10. Take chocolate sauce for drizzling

Dust your working space with flour, and level the dough using a rolling pin. This Easy Baked Pears with Puff Pastry recipe uses a Royal Riviera pear wrapped in flaky puff pastry dough, making a delightful pear dessert. It's a great way to impress guests because it looks pretty and tastes delicious! This surprisingly simple dish is a must for any get-together.

Steps to make Baked pears in puff pastry:
  1. Blend together flour, butter, and salt in a bowl with your fingertips or a pastry blender, just until mixture resembles coarse meal with some roughly pea-size butter lumps.
  2. Drizzle 3 tablespoons ice water evenly over mixture and gently stir with a fork until incorporated.
  3. Squeeze a small handful: If it doesn't hold together, add more ice water, 1/2 tablespoon at a time, stirring until incorporated, then test again. Do not overwork dough or pastry will be tough.
  4. Turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface and divide into 4 portions. With heel of your hand, smear each portion once or twice in a forward motion to help distribute fat. Gather dough together, with a pastry scraper if you have one, and press into a 5-inch disk. Chill, wrapped in plastic wrap, until firm, at least 1 hour.
  5. Rinse the pears under running water. Pat them dry with clean kitchen towel. Cut each one in half lengthwise. Remove any hard parts and scoop out the seeds by creating a dent where the Nutella filling will go. - Place each pear half onto rolled out puff pastry dough, cut side down. Leave enough space in between each one of them. Cut out the pastry around each pear making sure the cut out pastry is at least 0.5 inch (1.3 cm) wider than the pears. - Use the leftover pastry to cut out leaves.
  6. 2 leaves per pear. Use a cookie cutter or a knife to cut them out. With the knife, make some indentation in each leaf, so it looks like veins.
  7. Take each pear and fill the dent with Nutella. Place it back onto the puff pastry (cut side down) and press down slightly. Brush the exposed puff pastry areas with milk.
  8. Bake in a preheated oven at 400°F/200°C for 10 minutes or until the pastry is puffed and golden brown. - Serve them with chocolate sauce.

It's a great way to impress guests because it looks pretty and tastes delicious! This surprisingly simple dish is a must for any get-together. Place a pear half, cut-side down, on each piece of pastry and brush them with the lemon juice. Use the trimmings to make leaves and brush the pastry border with the beaten egg. Remove baking dish from oven and turn.

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