Best Roasted Pears With Amaretti Cookies Recipes

ROASTED PEARS WITH AMARETTI AND AMARETTO

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F.
• Mix Amaretto and vinegar in a 13- by 9-inch baking dish. Put pears, cut sides down, in dish.
• Roast pears 15 minutes. Add water and roast until pears are tender but still hold their shape, 8 to 10 minutes more.
• Arrange pears, cut sides up, on a platter and spoon pan juices over them. Sprinkle with half of cookie crumbs, then baste with pan juices. Sprinkle with remaining crumbs and serve warm or at room temperature.

SPICED POACHED PEARS WITH CRèME FRAîCHE AND AMARETTO COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large pot, combine sugar with 8 cups water and bring to a boil over high heat. Add the cinnamon, cloves, vanilla, star anise, and lemon, stir until the sugar is dissolved.
• Add the pears to the liquid and reduce heat to low. Cover and simmer the pears until tender, about 20 to 25 minutes. Remove pot from heat and let the pears cool in their liquid at room temperature.
• When ready to serve, use a slotted spoon to transfer pears to serving platter. Top with a dollop of crème fraîche, amaretti cookie crumbs, and a light dusting of cinnamon.

ROASTED PEARS WITH AMARETTI COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a 9-by-13-inch baking dish, toss pears with lemon, sugar, and a pinch of salt; arrange pears in dish, cut side down. Add 1/4 cup water; cover dish tightly with aluminum foil, and bake until pears are easily pierced with the tip of a paring knife, 25 to 30 minutes.
• Place each pear half, cut side up, on a platter, and top with 1 tablespoon of mascarpone and 1 crumbled cookie. Drizzle with juices from baking dish, and serve.

EASY BAKED PEARS WITH AMARETTI

Steps:

• Cut each pear in half, then place on a large baking tray. Use a teaspoon to scoop out the cores and make a dip in the centre of each pear. If your pears are firm, you may need to use a sharp knife to do this. Dollop about 1 heaped tsp ricotta into each dip, then sprinkle over the cinnamon and drizzle with a little honey.
• Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5, then roast the pears for 10 mins. Tip the biscuits into a food bag and use a rolling pin to lightly crush them. Remove the pears from the oven, then scatter the crumbs over each pear. Return to the oven for another 10 mins or until the pears are soft and the biscuit golden brown. Serve drizzled with honey.

AMARETTI PEARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Peel, core and halve the pears and place them in a greased baking dish. Crush the cookies and mix them with the butter. Stuff into the pear cavities.
• Pour the wine over the pears, sprinkle with sugar and bake for 45 minutes to one hour, until tender.

BAKED PEARS WITH AMARETTI FILLING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F. Butter 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish. Using melon baller or small spoon, core each pear half, leaving 1 1/2-inch-diameter cavity. Arrange 8 pear halves, cut side up, in prepared baking dish. Puree remaining 2 halves in processor. Place 1/2 cup puree in medium bowl (reserve any remaining puree for another use). Mix cookie crumbs and yolk into puree in bowl. Mound filling in pear cavities.
• Combine 6 tablespoons sugar, lemon juice and butter in small saucepan. Bring to boil over medium heat, stirring until sugar dissolves and butter melts. Spoon syrup over pears.
• Bake pears until tender, basting occasionally with syrup in dish, about 1 hour. (Can be prepared 3 hours ahead; let stand at room temperature.)
• Whip cream with liqueur and remaining 1 tablespoon sugar in medium bowl until soft peaks form. Serve pears with whipped cream.

ROASTED PEARS WITH ALMONDS, AMARETTI AND AMARETTO

Steps:

• • pre-heat oven to 350° • cut pear lengthwise about 2/3 up from bottom, reserving cut piece and coring the pear • crush amaretti cookies in food processor with brown sugar and cinnamon and remove • remove skin from reserved pear slice and chop up reserved pear meat in food processor • mix pear meat, cookies crumbs with brown sugar and almonds together • stuff pear cavity • bake for 1 hour • plate pear with small scoop of vanilla ice cream • drizzle all with Amaretto

PEARS BAKED IN AMARETTO CREAM

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Grease a 9-inch baking dish with 1 tablespoon butter. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon sugar into buttered dish.
• Rub remaining butter onto cut sides of pear halves. Arrange pears into the prepared baking dish with the cut sides down. Sprinkle remaining sugar over the pears.
• Stir cream and amaretto together in a bowl.
• Bake pears in preheated oven for 10 minutes. Pour cream mixture over the pears and continue baking until the pears are tender, about 15 minutes more.