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The Musette: roasted pears and nougat with chocolate sauce
You may recall that my beloved husband believes no meal is complete without dessert. While I can occasionally fob him off with fresh fruit, yoghurt or cheese during the week, this does not go down well at weekends, particularly after Sunday lunch.
Sometimes I can get away with cooking the fruit and serving it with a sauce, or crunchy topping or, in this case, both. This mouth-watering dessert is so simple, speedy and made with ingredients that I often have in stock. The nougat melts like roasted marshmallow over the soft unctious pears then you drizzle on the sensuous dark chocolate sauce. Desserts don’t get much better (or easier) than this – trust me!
Ingredients (serves 2 greedy cyclists)
- 2 ripe pears, peeled and cored
- 1 tbsp fruity olive oil
- 200g (7 oz) soft nougat
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 100g (4 oz) dark chocolate (70% min. cocoa solids) broken into small pieces
Method
1.Preheat the oven to 190ºC (375ºF)/170ºC (350ºF)/gas mark 4. Peel the pears, cut them in half, core them and put them in a baking dish and brush them with tbsp olive oil.
2. Cut the nougat into chunks and scatter them over the pears. Roast the pears in the oven for about 15 minutes or until golden and tender.
3. To make the sauce, put the syrup and cocoa powder in a pan and add 100ml (10 tbsp) water. Bring to the boil while whisking. Add the chocolate and stir until it melts. It should be beautifully glossy.
4. Serve the sauce with the pears.
Sheree’s Handy Hints
1.Use softish nougat which doesn’t have too many ingredients, preferably white nougat with almonds. You want the edges to just catch and the rest to partly melt over the pears.
2. The recipe makes more chocolate sauce than you’ll need but extra chocolate sauce is never a problem. It’ll be delicious on all sorts of things such as rum baked bananas, banana bread, pain perdu or just poured over ice cream.
3. At the end of a three-course meal, if you were so inclined, you could make this dessert stretch to four, but I wouldn’t!
I fully agree with your husband but I do have to be careful with chocolate. It does n ot like me much.
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Anita, sorry to hear that.
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Process of aging.
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Not to have this kind of dessert on a Sunday would be a schame …
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Now, I am hungry again.
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Sorry 😐
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That does look good.
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Thanks Dan
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This morning I finely got the banana cake made. Very good. But I wasn’t sure of my pan size and must have been too small as I had to increase cooking time …a lot.
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But what did it taste like?
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Pretty good. Different from banana bread …very moist…not too sweet.
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Spot on!
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Yes to vegan dessert. This looks delicious!
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It was!
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Sounds and looks absolutely yummy! Copying to try!!
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The Musette: roasted pears and nougat with chocolate sauce
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I agree with your beloved – dessert is a necessity 🙂
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With hubby being diabetic, it would be for one.
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Nom nom! Sounds absolutely delicious! 😀
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It was delicious
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