Serves
4
Prep
10
mins
Cooking
40
mins
Baked Pears
Directions
Step 1
Preheat oven to 180oC.
Step 2
Place peeled, halved and cored pears in a baking dish. Fill centre of pears with brown sugar, cinnamon and coconut.
Step 3
Add water to baking tray. Bake for 40 minutes or until pears are soft. Half way through baking, spoon some of the liquid on the pears to maintain the moisture of the pears.
Step 4
Spoon pears into bowls and top with cream, custard or ice-cream. Serve immediately.
Tips
- The riper the pears, the quicker they will cook.
Ingredients
- 4 ripe pears (packham or brown), peeled, halved & cored
- 2 tbs brown sugar
- 1 tsp McKenzie's Ground Cinnamon
- 1/4 cup McKenzie's Fine Desiccated Coconut
- 1/4 cup water
- To serve, cream, vanilla custard or vanilla ice-cream