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Chocolate Poached Pears

Here is a light fruit dessert that is easy to make and less than 200 calories per serving. Most of the time pears are poached in wine or liqueur. But you can poach them in a light chocolate syrup to give them a light chocolate flavor and warm cocoa hue. We served ours with a light sprinkling of real chocolate shavings and a tiny amount of chocolate syrup.
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings: 2 servings
Course: Dessert
Calories: 187
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 2 pears
  • 4 cups water
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 tablespoons cocoa
  • 2 tablespoons Hershey's Chocolate Sauce
  • 4 teaspoons shaved dark chocolate use potato peeler or cheese slicer

Method
 

  1. Place water, sugar, and cocoa in a small pan.
  2. Peel pears and remove the core from the bottom of them. Place them in the saucepan and top with foil so the pears stay submerged.
  3. Simmer over low heat for 40 minutes (or less, depending on desire tenderness).
  4. Remove from poaching liquid. Set each pear in 1 tablespoon of Hershey's chocolate sauce. Top each one with 2 teaspoons of shaved chocolate. Refrigerate until ready to serve or serve warm.

Notes

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