Poached Pears With Chocolate-Pear Sauce

• 1 cup pear nectar
• 1 cup dry white wine
• 12 cup sugar
• 4 pears, slightly under-ripe, peeled, halved, cored
• 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped (NOT unsweetened or semi-sweet)

1. Stir pear nectar, white wine and sugar in a heavy large saucepan over med.high heat until sugar dissolves and syrup comes to a boil.
2. Add pears to syrup in saucepan.Cover pan, reduce heat to med.- low, and simmer until pears are tender, about 8 minutes.
3. Using slotted spoon transfer pears to plate.
4. Increase heat to med.- high and boil poaching liquid until reduced to 3/4 cup, about 8 minutes.
5. Remove pan from heat.
6. Add chocolate; whisk until chocolate melts and sauce is smooth.
7. Place 1 warm pear half on each plate.
8. Top with warm chocolate sauce.
9. Or, cover pears and chocolate sauce separately and refrigerate up to 2 days; then serve pears cold with sauce, rewarming sauce, if desired.

pear nectar, white wine, sugar, bittersweet chocolate

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/poached-pears-with-chocolate-pear-sauce-212666 (may not work)