Stuffed pears with cranberry sauce Recipe

Stuffed pears with cranberry sauce Recipe

  • 1 pear, peeled and cored
  • 50g/1¾oz Stilton
  • 1 tbsp brown sugar
  • ½ mini bottle of port (approximately 2 tbsp)
  • 150g/5½oz caster sugar
  • 200g/7oz cranberries
  • 4 kumquats, sliced very thinly
  1. Preheat the oven to 200C/390F/Gas 6.
  2. For the stuffed pears, take the pear and stuff the hollow core with the cheese. Place the pear on a baking sheet and top with the brown sugar.
  3. Cook in the oven for eight minutes.
  4. For the cranberry sauce, heat the port, caster sugar and cranberries in a small pan for eight minutes.
  5. Transfer to a liquidiser and blend until smooth.
  6. To serve, place the thinly sliced kumquats on the plate, place the pear in the centre and drizzle the cranberry sauce over the top.