White Wine Poached Pears with Coconut Cream & Seed Brittle
Kicking off the New Year with a special healthy treat for you all! This super simple white wine poached pear a great dessert option, heck this recipe could even a sweet breakfast idea too.
It seems like most of us overindulged a little over the holidays, and we want to start the new year more healthy.
I got you covered with a not so sinful dessert.
I am a firm believer that you can eat super clean and have an occasional sweet not to make you feel super deprived. Not saying go binge on some cinnamon sugar doughnuts.
I’m saying treat yourself and make this fantastic white wine poached pear. It will make you feel like you are bad, but not at all.
A white wine poached pear for all the diets out there.
This dessert is for all people! It’s gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, nut-free, and refined sugar-free. Also if you don’t want to use the white wine, it will be delicious if you opt-out of using in the recipe too. Like most of my recipes, tweak to your liking.
If you do like the wine, I enjoy using a Pinot Grigio Landae from Zero Puro, a great organic, biodynamic company that I often cook with but also regularly drink too.
White wine poached pears are not the most popular dessert in town, but it’s freaking delicious!
I don’t know why most of my clients don’t select white wine poached pears for them. Especially when they see options like molten lava cakes and brown butter rice Krispy treats. I guess a pear seems quite dull. Trust me it’s not.
This white wine pear is a party in your mouth!
You can serve a just poached pear or a fricking poached pear with coconut cream & pumpkin and sesame seed brittle. Get my point.
The coconut cream in this recipe is just a great dairy-free vanilla bean coconut yogurt. This simple addition of coconut yogurt fools my clients all the time. They think that I made some special sauce and I’ll tell them there is no trick it’s just a good yogurt!
Not all yogurt is created equal.
Read your labels, guys! Some yogurts contain so much added unnecessary crap, gums, fillers, and other ingredients that I have me googling what they are. And the sugar! Oh man, it can be so high like you are drinking a few cokes and thinking you are being healthy eating yogurt.
One of my favorite coconut yogurt brands to use is COYO, and their vanilla bean has flecks of seeds! Super thick and not too sweet! Just perfect.
That pumpkin sesame seed crumble, oh my! I’m taking you to drool town right there.
Sometimes desserts need a sweet added crunch, and then seed brittle was born! The recipe calls for a few simple ingredients like little maple syrup, vanilla extract, pumpkin seeds, flax seeds, back, and white sesame seeds. It’s a perfect crunchy addition to this dish.
That pumpkin sesame seed brittle is not just for pears.
You can use this brittle to any topping addition on a salad, like our candied pecans we make or top on your yogurt with fresh berries in the morning.
Okay, so let’s get to poaching those pears and I hope you enjoy this recipe.
White Wine Poached Pear with Yogurt Cream and Pumpkin Sesame Seed Brittle
Ingredients
Poached Pears
- 2 1/2 cups white wine
- 3 cups water
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/2 Meyer lemon juiced
- 1 vanilla bean sliced in half
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 tea vanilla extract
- 3 pears peeled and leaving the stem on
Pumpkin Sesame Seed Brittle
- 2 cups raw pumpkin seeds
- 1/4 cup flax seeds
- 1/4 cup sesame seeds I used white and black, but use whatever you have
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1 tea vanilla extract
Other
- 1 5 oz a container of COYO vanilla bean coconut yogurt or any other type of preferred yogurt
Instructions
Poached Pears
- Place all the poaching ingredients into a pot. Make sure that the pears are covered in the liquid. If not add more wine or water to the mixture.
- Place on the stovetop on medium-high heat. As soon as the liquid starts to simmer, turn the heat down to low for about an hour. Cover and check on the pears turning over in the liquid.
- You want the pears to be soft to cut through but not complete mush.
- Please note: You can make these the day before and serve cold or make the day of. Great to have a little extra if you want leftovers for breakfast.
Pumpkin Sesame Seed Brittle
- As the pears are poaching turn the oven to 350.
- Add all the ingredients to a parchment-lined baking sheet and toss together until everything is coated.
- Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes. Tossing a few times in between. Let cool and break apart.
- Please note: You can easily make this a few days before, make sure you let cool completely and store in an airtight container.
To Assemble
- You can serve the pears whole or slice in half. It depends on how much you and your guest would like to eat. If you are serving in half remember to remove the seeds.
- In a shallow bowl or rimmed plate spoon a little of the yogurt, add poached pear and sprinkle of the brittle.
- For an added sauce you can reduce the poaching liquid to syrup by boiling the liquid down. Or drizzle some additional maple syrup.
LET US KNOW IN THE COMMENTS IF YOU ENJOYED THIS RECIPE!
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