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Poached Pear Salad

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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

Details

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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