For more wonderful fruity desserts, also try our Amaretto peach cobbler or healthy apple crisp! These Amaretto poached pears are juicy and filled with a sweet almond flavor. You don’t need any special skills or tools to make them, and it’s a great recipe that you can prepare ahead of time. Feel free to customize your liquid with ginger, vanilla, a cinnamon stick, cloves, or even swap the sugar for honey. These poached pears are perfect around the holidays, or as a light-tasting end to any delicious meal! Amaretto is a bittersweet Italian almond-flavored liqueur. It’s most often made from apricot kernels, but is also sometimes made from peach stones or almonds. Its name comes from the Italian words amaro which means ‘bitter’ and etto meaning ‘little’, translating to “little bitter”. It can be sipped on its own over ice or mixed into cocktails to add sweet, nutty notes. Because of its smooth taste, it’s often used in boozy coffee drinks, creamy cocktails, and martinis. It also adds flavor to sweet desserts
Pears – winter pears are perfect for poaching because they don’t ripen the same as they do in the summer. We tend to use bosc pears or anjou pears because they hold their shape when cooked. Avoid bartlett pears because they tend to soften too much. Amaretto – any type of Amaretto will work for this recipe. Most Amarettos are moderately priced and widely available. Light brown sugar – light brown sugar adds the right amount of sweetness, and a lovely caramel taste to the syrup.
Here’s how to make a poached pear in a couple of simple steps: When you’re ready to serve them, first heat up the poaching liquid and then add the pears to gently warm them. Remove them from the liquid, and set them aside to reduce the amaretto syrup. Because the greatest desserts can acceptably be eaten for breakfast, enjoy leftover poached pears in porridge, stirred into yogurt, with pancakes or waffles, or sliced up on sourdough with some ricotta cheese throughout the holiday season, and beyond!
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