Pear Pecan Crisp With Lemon Sauce Recipes

MAPLE ORANGE PECAN PEAR CRISP

Steps:

• 1. Heat oven to 375 degree's. Butter a 9 inch baking dish. Set aside.
• 2. Peel pears. Remove seeds. cut each pear in to 4 pieces length wise. Toss in lemon juice. Place pears in buttered pan.
• 3. Place pears in buttered pan. In a sauce pan mix maple syrup, cinnamon,, 1 tsp orange zest, 2 TB butter. Heat until boiling while stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Pour syrup over pears. Then set aside.
• 4. Topping: In a food processor Pulse topping ingredients until it becomes crumbly. It will resemble cookie dough.
• 5. Crumble nut cinnamon mixture over pears. You may add more chopped nuts and orange zest at this point if desired. Place in oven and bake 30-40 minutes, or until pears have softened and top is golden brown.
• 6. Remove from oven. Serve alone, with vanilla ice cream. The juices with msple syrup are wonderful over ice cream.

BAKED PEARS WITH LEMON SAUCE

Steps:

• Make lemon sauce ahead of time: Dissolve arrowroot in a little milk; place in a saucepan with rest of milk and cinnamon stick.
• Stir and cook over low heat, stirring, until slightly thickened.
• Stir in lemon peel, lemon juice and 1/4 cup of the honey.
• Remove from heat, remove and discard cinnamon stick, cover and place in refrigerator to chill.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Halve and core pears; place in a glass baking dish.
• In a small saucepan, bring 1/4 cup honey, water and cloves just to boiling point, but do not boil; pour over pears.
• Bake until pears are fork-tender (time for this varies considerably depending on firmness of pears--really hard ones can take as much as an hour).
• Remove and discard whole cloves.
• Serve warm with chilled lemon sauce.