Creamy Coconut Poached Pears with Star Anise
 
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Serve these coconut poached pears with a generous portion of the creamy sauce for dessert. For heartier, healthier fare, the pears can also be chopped and served with the sauce atop granola or steel cut oats.
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Serves: 6 servings
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Warm coconut milk, sugar, and anise over low heat to dissolve sugar.
  2. Peel, halve, and core the pears with a melon baller.
  3. Submerge the pears in the coconut milk and cover.
  4. Keeping the heat at low to prevent burning the coconut milk, cook the pears for 20-25 minutes, or until just tender when pierced with a fork.
  5. Gently stir the mixture every 8-10 minutes to prevent scorching.
  6. Once tender, remove the pears and serve immediately with the sweetened, spiced coconut milk.
Notes
Serving suggestion: Chop the warm pears into chunks and return them to the warmed coconut milk, Then scoop the pears and sauce atop a bowl of steel-cut or old-fashioned oatmeal.
Recipe by Go Dairy Free at https://www.godairyfree.org/recipes/creamy-coconut-poached-pears