Roasted Pears with Dried Apricots and Pistachios

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 2014, America's Test Kitchen TV

A two-stage cooking process yields tender, beautifully caramelized fruits.

SERVES 4 to 6

TIME 1¼ hours

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Roasted fruit can easily become colorless and mushy or burned and crunchy without a correct method. By starting our fruit over direct heat we were able to evaporate some of the juices released by the fruit that would otherwise get in the wa...

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