Create a pear dessert in your slow cooker that can't compare. Slow cooked pears in a buttery maple sauce are a showstopper!
Slow-Cooker Maple-Sauced Pears
- Prep Time 10 min
- Total 2 hr 50 min
- Servings 6
- Ingredients 8
Ingredients
- 6 pears
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/3 cup maple-flavored syrup
- 1 tablespoon butter or margarine, melted
- 1 teaspoon orange peel
- 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
Instructions
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Step1Peel pears. Core pears from bottom, leaving stems attached. Place pears upright in 3 1/2- to 5-quart slow cooker.
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Step2Mix remaining ingredients except cornstarch and orange juice; pour over pears.
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Step3Cover and cook on high heat setting 2 to 2 1/2 hours or until tender.
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Step4Remove pears from cooker; place upright in serving dish or individual dessert dishes.
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Step5Mix cornstarch and orange juice; stir into sauce in cooker. Cover and cook on high heat setting about 10 minutes or until sauce is thickened. Spoon sauce over pears. Note: This recipe was tested in slow cookers with heating elements in the side and bottom of the cooker, not in cookers that stand only on a heated base. For slow cookers with just a heated base, follow the manufacturer’s directions for layering ingredients and choosing a temperature.
Nutrition
225
Calories
2 g
Total Fat
1 g
Protein
54 g
Total Carbohydrate
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 225
- Calories from Fat
- 25
- Total Fat
- 2 g
- Saturated Fat
- 1 g
- Cholesterol
- 5 mg
- Sodium
- 40 mg
- Potassium
- 250 mg
- Total Carbohydrate
- 54 g
- Dietary Fiber
- 3 g
- Protein
- 1 g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 2%
- 2%
- Vitamin C
- 6%
- 6%
- Calcium
- 2%
- 2%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
3 1/2 Fruit;Tips from the Betty Crocker Kitchens
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