Poached Pears In Sticky Wine Sauce

• 1/2 cup dessert wine
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon fresh ginger chopped
• 6 black peppercorns
• 1 star anise
• 1 whole clove
• 1 cardamom pod bruised
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 4 pears peeled
• vanilla ice cream to serve

1. Place wine, 1/2 cup water, sugar, ginger and spices in a medium saucepan on low heat. Stir for 2-3 mins until sugar dissolves.
2. Add pears. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low; simmer for 20-25 mins or until pears are tender when tested with a skewer. Cool in syrup.
3. Remove pears and strain syrup. Return syrup to saucepan. Return to a boil on medium heat. Reduce heat to low; simmer for 10-15 mins until reduced to 3/4 cup.
4. Drizzle pears with syrup. Serve with vanilla ice cream.

dessert wine, sugar, ginger, black peppercorns, anise, clove, bruised, cinnamon, vanilla ice cream

Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Poached-Pears-in-Sticky-Wine-Sauce-1399532 (may not work)