Pears with gorgonzola and nuts
Pears with gorgonzola and nuts is a recipe originally developed by Luisa Vallazza from the 3 Michelin star restaurant Al Sorriso in the Novara province of Piedmont. And it makes a delicious and elegant dessert.
Apart from being a great cheese, gorgonzola is also magnificent ingredient adding spice and character to both savoury and sweet dishes. As such it has inspired many great chefs in the area of origin. One of these is Luisa Vallazza, a 3 star chef from the town of Soriso near Lago d’Orta in Piedmont. She boils pears in mulled Barolo wine and fills them with a rich cream of gorgonzola and ricotta.
Ingredients
4 pears
500 ml red wine (it does not have to be Barolo)
1 cinnamon stick
3 cloves
4 tbsp sugar
1 lemon rind
1 tsp corn starch
50 g gorgonzola
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp ricotta
2 tbsp walnuts
Preparation
Bring wine, sugar, cinnamon, cloves and lemon rind to the boil.
Peel the pears and remove the cores without cutting the fruit in half
Drown the pears in the sweet wine and let them simmer for 5-10 minutes.
Let the pears cool in the wine
Mash gorgonzola and mix it with honey.
Fold ricotta and chopped walnuts into the gorgonzola cream.
Remove the pears from the wine and stuff them with the gorgonzola mixture.
Boil the liquor down to a thick sauce with the help of a little corn starch dissolved in cold water
Arrange the pears with gorgonzola and nuts on separate plates decorated with the sauce.
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Delicious :)
Thank you.
Mette, I’d never have thought of these together, but now that you’ve presented it to me… Wow! Pine nuts with gorgonzola and THEN add pears = YUM! Thanks for showing me (once again) how easy it is to be creative while keeping it simple.
That’s what I like about Italian food: The insistence on keeping things simple and tasty.
Looks divine Mette. I wish you could come over here and give me some cooking lessons. You’re making my mouth water.
I wouldn’t mind trading a couple of cooking classes for a Canadian hike:)
Mette, these sound amazing – I recently made pears with ricotta which I found when I was looking online for “healthy” desserts but these sound delicious and I really like Gorgonzola so will have to give this a go instead of ricotta next time!
Please do. I’m sure they’d qualify as healthy from a low fat, low sugar point of view.
Lordy this sounds good especially because I love pears and cheese. I like walnuts but out of curiosity do you think pecans or pistachios could be substituted, Mette? Yummy recipe :)
I’m sure pecans would work quite well, because they have got a slight bitterness, but I’m not so sure about pistacchios though. Can’t imagine them with sweet gorgonzola, so I’ll just have to try it, I guess.