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Roasted Pear And Cinnamon Clafouti

The French dessert that's known as clafouti is a pancake crossed with a fruit-filled custard. It's best served warm, right from the skillet. If you don't have a cast-iron skillet, any ovenproof variety is fine. Serve with vanilla ice cream.

Courses: Dessert
Serves: 6 people

Recipe Ingredients

4 cups 948mlBosc pears - peeled, cored, (large)
  And quartered
1/4 cup 82g / 2.9ozPure maple syrup
3 cups 594g / 20ozEggs (large)
1 1/3 cups 315mlHalf-and-half
3/4 teaspoon 3.8mlVanilla extract
1/4 cup 15g / 0.5ozAll-purpose flour
1/4 cup 40g / 1.4ozGolden brown sugar - (packed) - plus
1 tablespoon 15mlGolden brown sugar - (packed)
1 1/2 teaspoons 7.5mlGround cinnamon
1   Salt

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

Butter 9-inch cast-iron skillet. Heat over medium-high heat. Add pears, rounded-side down, to skillet and cook until golden brown, about 3 minutes per side. Spoon syrup over pears. Transfer skillet to oven and roast pears until tender, turning and basting once, about 10 minutes.

Remove skillet from oven and bring pear mixture to boil over high heat; boil until almost all juices have evaporated, about 2 minutes. Cool to room temperature. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees.

Place eggs, half-and-half, and vanilla in blender and process until smooth. Add flour, 1/4 cup sugar, 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon, and pinch of salt; blend to combine. Pour batter over pears in skillet. Bake until center is set and clafouti is puffed and golden brown at edges, about 40 minutes.

Mix remaining 1 tablespoon sugar and 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon in small bowl. Sprinkle over clafouti; serve warm.

This recipe yields 6 servings.

Source:
Bon Appetit, December 2002

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