Recipes

Poached Williams pears with saffron yoghurt

Name: Poached Williams pears with saffron yoghurt
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 4 Williams pears; 2dl cider; 15g sugar; 125mg Mund saffron AOP; A little lemon juice; 250g Bifidus natural yoghurt, semi-skimmed; 1 tbsp chopped pistachios (10g)

Category
Dessert
Difficulty
Easy
Nutritional value / pers.
170 kcal
Total time
30 min
Preparation time
10 min
Cooking time
20 min

Preparation

Peel the pears.
Bring them to boil in a small pan together with the cider, sugar, saffron and a few drops of lemon juice. Cover and simmer at a low heat for around 15 minutes, turning the pears occasionally.
Leave to cool in the syrup.
Remove pears and reduce syrup to around 4 tablespoons. Mix cooled syrup with yoghurt.
Serve pears with yoghurt, sprinkle with pistachios.

Recipe by: Fruit-Union Suisse