Pears with cloves

Ingredients

• 6 firm cooking pears
• 225 g sugar
• 850 ml water
• 12 cloves
• 20 g cooked beet, for color (optional)

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Instructions

1. Boil the sugar with the water and cloves for 5 minutes to make the syrup.
2. Peel the pears, leaving the stems on, and core them from the bottom with a small knife.
3. Poach them standing up in the syrup, covered and over very low heat, until tender when pierced: cooking pears take a while, between 1 and 3 hours depending on how hard they are.
4. If you want them pink, grate the beet, press it in a strainer to get a few drops of juice and add them to the syrup for the last 10 minutes.
5. Serve them warm or cold with their syrup.

Nutrition facts

Approximate, per serving (about 361 g). Calculated with data from USDA FoodData Central.