Miso butter baked pears

Miso butter baked pears

Tags

Sweet
fruit

Cook

Ingredients

  • 3 firm pears, peeled
  • 80g dark brown sugar
  • 45g butter, cubed
  • 2 tsp white miso
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 3 star anise
  • ½ tsp caraway seeds
  • 1 lemon, zest and juice
  • 2 tbsp tahini
  • ¼ tsp flaked sea salt

Steps

  1. Preheat the oven to 210°C fan. Cut the pears into six wedges and remove the core.
  2. Place in a medium baking dish, then sprinkle over the sugar and dot the butter and miso around them.
  3. Add the cinnamon stick, star anise, caraway and lemon zest. Cover tightly with foil and bake for 20 minutes.
  4. Remove the foil, stir and baste the pears with the miso butter and return to the oven, uncovered, for another 25-35 minutes.
  5. Stir through the lemon juice and finish with a drizzle of tahini and a sprinkle of salt.