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Blue Cheese with Port Poached Pears

Blue Cheese & Poached Pears

Preparation time
Allow half a day

Cooking time
Allow half a day

Serves
4

Product used
Tasmanian Heritage True Blue

Ingredients

1½ cups of port
1 cup of sugar
5 strips orange peel
4 ripe but firm pears, peeled
1 cinnamon stick
1 clove
200g Tasmanian Heritage True Blue cheese

Instructions

  1. Bring port, sugar, cinnamon stick, clove and orange peel to a simmer in a small pan. Stir until sugar has dissolved.
  2. Add pears and gently poach on their sides until tender.  This takes about 15 minutes. Turn occasionally if liquid does not cover the pears in order to cook evenly. 
  3. Remove pears carefully with a slotted spoon and reduce poaching liquid to half a cup by gently simmering. Add lemon juice. 
  4. Pour liquid over pears and cool. Refrigerate for at least 8 hours, turning occasionally so colour is evenly distributed. 
  5. To serve, halve pears, placing flat side down. Thinly slice then fan the slices from the top. 
  6. Serve on a pool of port syrup with a 50g portion of Tasmanian Heritage True Blue cheese.