Poached Pear Salad
By Howie
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Ingredients
- Salad:
- 1 pear, peeled and quartered
- 8 oz mixed greens
- 1 oz walnuts
- 1 oz crumbled blue cheese
- 4 oz walnut vinaigrette
- Poaching Liquid:
- 2 cups port wine
- 1/2 cup brandy
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 6 each cloves
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 2 cups water
- Walnut Vinaigrette:
- 1/2 cup lemon juice
- 1/4 cup dijon mustard
- 1 cup walnut oil
- 2 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp honey
- 1 cup vegetable oil
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Preparation
Step 1
Salad:
1) Combine poaching liquid ingredients. Bring to a boil. Add pear quarters and simmer for 20 minutes until soft. Remove pears and reserve liquid.
Vinaigrette:
1)Combine lemon juice, mustard, honey, sugar and slowly add oils while mixing.
* Serve walnuts next to greens, poached pears sliced in fours and spread out fan-like, blue cheese next
* Greens take up 2/3 of plate
* Freeze poaching liquid for a sorbet
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