Flavorful Poached Pears with 5 spice blend. This Chinese spice blend is popular in the west with dessert recipes such as this pear dessert. The spice blend adds a comforting sweet flavor to the pears by infusing the fruits equally.
Scrape of the lemon zest from the clean lemon skin. Cut the lemon in two and take out the juice. Keep aside.
Peel your pears but leave the stem on.
Place the pears into a bowl and pour the lemon juice over the pears so that the pears don't get time to turn brown. Keep aside
Heat up a pot with the water. Add the sugar, lemon zest, 5 spice and cinnamon stick to the pot.
Mix the content and bring to a boil.
Place your pears into the cooking syrup. Cook the pears soft, this might take somewhere between 15-20 mins depending on the pear variety and size. The pears should be cooked but not fall apart.
Once cooked let the pears and syrup cool. Take out the cinnamon stick and strain if you want if you don't like the lemon zest pieces.
Serve warm or cooled as a whole or cut in different ways. (see servings suggestions in the post above the recipe card)
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Notes
Brown Sugar results in a deeply flavored pear syrup, but you can use regular sugar or powdered sugar too if you prefer.
Use pears that are firm and equal in size. See in post for pear variety suggestion.