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Sweet pickled pears

Sweet pickled pears with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce
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Course Dessert
Servings 6 people

Equipment

  • Jar (about 1.5 L)

Ingredients
  

Sweet pears

  • 1 kg pear
  • 500 g sugar
  • 2 dl water
  • 1/2 dl apple vinegar
  • 2 tsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp liquid atamon

Chocolate sauce

  • 3 dl heavy whipping cream
  • 225 g dark chocolate in pieces (at least 60% cocoa)

Instructions
 

Sweet pears

  • Peel the pears
  • Cut each pear into four pieces and remove the core of the pears
  • Mix the sugar, water, vinagar, lemon juice, and vanilla in a saucepan and bring it to a boil
  • Add the pears to the saucepan when the sugar has dissolved
  • Let the pears boil till they are tender (when you poke a piece of pear with a fork it should easily slide off the fork again)
  • Put the pears in the jar
  • Let the mixture in the sauce pan boil for an extend of about 5 min
  • Add the atamon to the mixture and put the mixture in the jar
  • Close the jar at once

Chocolate sauce

  • ! This should be made just before serving
  • Bring the heavy creme to a boil in a saucepan while stiring
  • Remove the saucepan from the heat and add the chocolate - still stiring
  • Put the sauce in a sauceboat and serve the pears and ice cream