Recently, someone gave me a small crate of pears as they have a row of pear trees in their garden and it’s pear season. I’ve been eating them and using them in salads, have made pear turnovers and a couple of tarts but I still have loads left. Does anyone have any ideas/recipes for what to do with pears?
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use them in fruit chat…boil them and dip in sugar and caramel syrup…make jam! 
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Don’t boil them but poach them and enjoy with ice cream, try smoothie.
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smoothiessss!
Apple pear smoothies
Poached
Roasted
Baked
Fried
Pear cake
Chocolate and pear puff pastries
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One of my favorite combinations for pizza/flatbreads is thinly sliced pear, caramelized onion and arugula, with a sprinkling of goat cheese or blue cheese. It’s a fabulous combination of sweet and savory, you should try it!
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
4 flatbreads – 7 inch in diameter – 2 oz. each
1 1/2 cups cored, thinly sliced pears (Used Green Anjou)
1 cup caramelized onions (see recipe)
1/2 cup blue cheese or goat cheese crumbled
1 cup arugula
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 400°. Brush olive oil on the flatbreads and cover with the sliced Asian pears and caramelized onion. Sprinkle with the blue cheese/goat cheese. Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes until cheese is melted and beginning to brown and pears appear softened. Toss arugula with lemon juice, salt and fresh cracked black pepper n a bowl. Remove pizza from oven, top with arugula and serve immediately.
Caramelized Onions
Ingredients:
3 tablespoons butter
1 large onion, sliced in 1/4-inch slices
1 tablespoon sugar
Instructions:
Heat butter in a skillet over medium heat. Add onions. Cook until tender, about 3-5 minutes. Add sugar. Sauté for about 3 minutes, or until golden in color. Put in a bowl and set aside.
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Thanks everyone! I love all of the ideas. I’m quite keen to try this one ^
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Who says pears have to be used for dessert/sweets?
Growing up, and still to this day; we have a few pear trees in our backyard which MA provide hundreds of pounds of pears.
-My Mum uses pears instead of bhangain in bhangain ka burta/ bhangain ghosht and anything that requires, eggplant or turnips (shalgham). One of the best salaans have ever had!
-My sister makes a pear and cheddar tart! It’s a savory tart, not sure if it is a British thing!
-Pear/cheese/salad panini. (a Giada recipe)
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If you want to be more adventurous, check out these recipes, from the sweet to the not so sweet!
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Pear Recipes
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oh yeah, i forgot to mention murabba…my sister used to make murabba. it’s so yum!
and, how about crispy N flaky pastries with pear fillings.
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Why do I have a feeling OP will not be making a murabba?
I love pears. I think it’s my next favorite fruit after watermelon. I went thru a weird pear phase a few weeks back where I ate about 2 a day and I like them soft. Try caramelizing the pears and serving them alongside ice cream or other desserts such as flan/creme caramel. You can even incorporate them into a trifle.
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is it because it’s a skill of bygone era/generation? i seem to agree with you. it’s NOT a modern and/or a cool thingy!
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^I have a such story about that :p. A few months back, a friend and I attempted to make a murabba from nectarines. This particular friend is quite the foodie and is very much into experimenting with different types of cuisine. At the time a couple of cooking shows had been going on about Persian cuisine as well.
I’d never attempted to make a murabba or any type of jam/pickle prior to this, so I was going along with the directions my friend was giving me. I assumed she knew how to go about it since her mum makes various types of jams and pickled fruits during the summer every year, and because she’s quite into cooking. Ironically, she assumed I knew what I was doing and was going along with my directions as she’d had murabba a couple of times at my house, which was actually made by my gran, and thought I’d been involved in the preparation. After loads of mistakes, we managed to salvage our murabba into something edible.
In the end, though, it wasn’t very murabba-esque and was not as good as my gran’s, so we ended up using it as filling for these turnovers, which turned out quite nice:
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I went through the same thing…bosc pears are my favorite and I like them soft, warm and maybe even a bit bruised.