Pear Purée

Name: Pear Purée
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1.5 kg ripe pears; 100 ml water; 1 piece unwaxed lemon (juice); 1 piece vanilla pod; 2 tbsp sugar; 1 pinch cinnamon

A German classic that is cooked all over the country as soon as the pears drop ripe from the tree: the milder sibling of apple sauce. Ripe pears are stewed soft with a little water, lemon and vanilla and then puréed, and sweetened only lightly. The purée is pale, velvety and delicately sweet and goes with rice pudding, potato pancakes and pancakes.

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Cook time

35 min

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Servings

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Ingredients

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Nutrition

per serving

235 kcal

Calories

2 g

Protein

1 g

Fat

52 g

Carbs

Ingredients

For 4 servings

Estimated cost~€0.95 · ~€0.25/serving

Instructions

1
Peel the pears, quarter them, cut out the cores and cut the fruit into cubes of about 2 cm.
2
Slit the vanilla pod lengthways and scrape out the seeds with the back of the knife.
3
Put the diced pears into a pan with the water, the squeezed lemon juice, the vanilla seeds and the scraped-out pod and stew them covered over a low heat until soft, stirring once.
4
Take out the vanilla pod and purée the fruit finely with a stick blender or crush it roughly with a potato masher, depending on how chunky you want the purée to be.
5
Season the purée with the sugar and the cinnamon and bring it briefly back to the boil; very sweet pears often need no sugar at all.