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Roasted Pear Tart

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Ingredients
  

  • 3 red sensation pears or similar
  • 1 tbsp maple syrup
  • 1/4 c raw sugar
  • 40 g butter chopped
  • 1 sheet ready-rolled butter puff pastry
  • 1 egg beaten lightly
  • icing sugar for serving

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to moderate (180°c/160°c fan-forced)
  2. Peel pears, leaving stems intact; halve lengthways. Remove cores carefully. Place pears in baking dish, cut-side up and top with syrup, raw sugar and butter. Bake, uncovered, about 20 minutes or until tender, brushing pears occasionally with juices and turning pears over after 10 minutes.
  3. Increase oven to moderately hot (200°c/180°c fan-forced). Grease oven tray.
  4. Cut pastry sheet in half; place halves about 2cm apart on prepared tray.
  5. Place 3 pear halves, with cut-side down, on each pastry strip; reserve syrup in baking dish. Brush pears and pastry with reserved syrup; brush pastry with a little of the egg. Bake, uncovered, 20 minutes or until puffed and browned.
  6. Dust with sifted icing sugar and serve with cream or ice-cream, if desired.