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Foodie Friday! Warm Pear & Roast Vegetable Salad

Warm Pear & Roast Vegetable Salad 

Today’s winter warming Foodie Friday recipe combines the sweetness of warm baked pears with root vegetables. Enjoy as a meal in itself with a little of your favourite cheese on top (blue cheese is delicious with this!) or, serve as a tasty side salad at dinner.

 

Serves: 6

 

Warm Pear & Roast Vegetable SaladIngredients: 

  • 1 bunch beetroot
  • 4 vine-ripened tomatoes
  • 2 beurre bosc pears, sliced into wedges
  • 1 sweet potato
  • 1 large carrot
  • 1 parsnip
  • 1 bulb fennel
  • 1 red onion
  • 1 bunch English spinach, picked, washed, chopped
  • 150g fetta or blue cheese
  • Pinch sugar
  • Pinch chilli flakes
  • Salt and pepper
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil

 

 Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven to 200°C/180°C fan-forced.
  1. Trim and wash each beetroot and wrap in foil. Place in oven.
  1. Halve tomatoes horizontally and place in a small baking try. Sprinkle with sugar, chilli, salt and pepper. Drizzle with a couple of teaspoons of olive oil.
  1. Cut pears and remaining vegetables into wedges and combine in a large roasting dish. Toss with salt and pepper and remaining olive oil. Roast in same oven for 30 minutes.
  1. Add spinach on top of vegetables and cook another 5-10 minutes or until wilted.
  1. Peel beetroot and cut into wedges. Toss all vegetables together in a large serving bowl and scatter with cheese.
  1. Enjoy!

 

Recipe courtesy of: Ninemsn Food

 

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Foodie Friday! Grilled Ham & Cheese with Pear

Grilled Ham & Cheese with Pear

This Foodie Friday we’re putting a spin on an old favourite – Grilled Ham & Cheese! Adding fruit makes it healthy right? So we’re proposing the grilled ham & cheese sandwich with pear! It may seem like a strange combination at first, but trust us – the salty taste of the cheese and ham combined with the sweet taste of the pear is a match made in heaven!

 

Total Time: Less than 30 minsGrilled Ham & Cheese with Pears

Serves: 2 (2 Sandwiches)

 

Ingredients

  • 4 slices sandwich bread
  • 250 grams cheese (we love Woodside Cheese Wrights!)
  • 1 pear, thinly sliced
  • 250 grams deli ham, thinly sliced
  • Butter

 

Instructions

  1. Layer 4 slices of sandwich bread with about 250 grams of melting cheese, 1 thinly sliced pear, and 250 grams of thinly sliced deli ham; top each with bread.
  2. Heat a large fry pan over medium heat.
  3. Spread the outside of both bread slices with butter.
  4. Cook sandwiches in batches (if necessary) until golden and cheese is melted, flipping once, 3 to 5 minutes per side.
  5. Cut sandwiches in half and serve hot.
  6. Enjoy!

 

Recipe courtesy of: Martha Stewart

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Foodie Friday! Poached Pears with Dark Chocolate Sauce

Poached Pears with Dark Chocolate Sauce

There’s only one thing to do on Foodie Friday on the Easter long weekend, cook pears with chocolate! This quick and easy recipe is in-season, delicious, and perfect for your Easter celebrations! 

 

Poached Pears with Chocolate SauceTotal Time: 30 mins

Serves: 4

 

Ingredients

  • 4 Beurre bosc pears
  • 1/2 cup caster sugar
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 cinnamon stick

 

Chocolate Sauce Ingredients

  • 200g dark chocolate, finely chopped
  • 1/2 cup cream
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • 3 tbsp Frangelico liqueur (optional)
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon

 

Instructions

  1. In a small saucepan, bring the water, caster sugar and cinnamon to the boil.
  1. Peel the pears, leaving the stems intact.
  1. Place the pears in the sugar syrup, return to the boil and immediately remove from the heat and set aside to cool. The remaining heat will continue to cook the pear.
  1. In a small pan, heat the cream, cinnamon and butter and remove from the heat just before it boils.
  1. Whisk in the dark chocolate and Frangelico until the chocolate is entirely melted and you have chocolate sauce.
  1. Serve one pear per guest with the chocolate sauce drizzled over the top.
  1. Enjoy!

 

Recipe courtesy of: Kidspot Kitchen

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Foodie Friday! Baked Pears with Ricotta, Walnuts & Cinnamon

Baked Pears with Ricotta, Walnuts & Cinnamon

Pears are in season and the nights are getting colder! This recipe is warm, delicious, quick to prepare and a great way to get the family to eat a piece of fruit – happy Foodie Friday!

 

Serves: 4-8

 

IngredientsBaked Pears

  • 4 large firm pears, halved
  • 1 cup of of ricotta cheese
  • 1/2 cup of walnuts, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon (this is a lot so you can always reduce this quantity to taste)
  • Serving options – honey, grated dark chocolate, Cadbury flake chocolate

 

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180° and line a baking tray with baking paper.
  2. Scoop out the seeds of the pears, leaving a small hole that can be stuffed with the ricotta mixture.
  3. Combine the ricotta, walnuts and cinnamon.
  4. Spoon the ricotta mixture into the pear hollows.
  5. Place on the baking tray and bake for 30-40 minutes or until the pears are tender.
  6. Enjoy!

 

Recipe and photo courtesy of: A Dietitian’s Eats

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Foodie Friday! Pears Poached in Riesling and Vanilla

Pears Poached in Riesling and Vanilla

Autumn has arrived in Australia and our 2015 harvest is complete! With so many fresh, delicious pears now available, we’ll be bringing you our favourite pear recipes on ‘Foodie Friday’, starting with this weeks’ pears poached in Riesling and vanilla – a perfect autumn dessert.

 

Total time: 1 hourPoached Pears

Serves: 8

 

Ingredients

  • 500ml Riesling
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 vanilla bean
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • Peel from one lemon
  • 8 Berre Bosc or William pears
  • 300ml softly whipped cream
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsbp icing sugar

 

Instructions

  1. Put all ingredients except the pears in a big wide pot and bring to a boil stirring for a few minutes to dissolve the sugar, then reduce to a simmer.
  2. Carefully peel your pears then put all together into the simmering liquid. If the pears are not fully covered, add equal quantities of water and wine to cover.
  3. Leave to cook for about 10 minutes if you have ripe pears, or 20 minutes for almost ripe pears. The point of a knife will pierce the pear easily into soft flesh once done. Carefully remove the cooked pears with a slotted spoon and put into a container, standing upright.
  4. Next boil the poaching liquid for 30 – 45 minutes until it is reduced to an aromatic syrup.
  5. Serve warm or cold with whipped vanilla cream – add 1 tsp vanilla paste and 1 tbsp icing sugar to 300 ml softly whipped cream and/or vanilla bean ice cream.
  6. Enjoy!

 

Recipe and photo courtesy of: From the Kitchen

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