Baked Pears With Saba

By Florence Fabricant

Published December 21, 1999

Total Time
1 hour 30 minutes
Rating
4(12)
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Ingredients

Yield:6 to 8 servings

  • 6 bosc pears, peeled, cored and halved

  • Juice of 2 large lemons, and grated zest of one

  • 1 tablespoon unsalted butter

  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

  • 1 ¾ cups saba or vin cot

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Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Heat oven to 375 degrees. Toss pears in a bowl with lemon juice. Butter a 10- or 11-inch round or 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Arrange pears in dish. Sprinkle with lemon zest and cinnamon.

  2. Step 2

    Bake about 1 hour, basting every 20 minutes with ⅓ cup saba. Remove from oven. If pan juices are runny, spoon into a saucepan, and cook down until syrupy.

  3. Step 3

    Serve pears warm or cool, with pan juices and remaining saba drizzled over them.

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Leora

Saba = balsamic vinegar

MJ

Subbed cardomom for cinnamon and shipped the Saba. Excellent!

Charmaine

Used balsamic vinegar instead of saba and thr pears were so delicious. Will definitely make this again and again.

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