dukkah baked pears with goats cheese and honey
With this recipe I simply combine a few of my favourite things and pile them onto a cracker. I also like the cracker because as a textural eater, it provides me with the necessary crunch.
Buried deep in the archives of this blog, I posted a recipe for baked pear wedges coated in dukkah which I enjoyed at a friends party years ago. Since I’m rather partial to a good pear, I decided to bring this idea back and combine these fabulous flavours with goats cheese, which is another thing I’m very partial too.
Oh and don’t get me started on dukkah. I love the stuff. If you had to type it into my search tab on the right ————-> you would find a plethora of recipes using it.
The pear is a tricky fruit and I often agree with Ralph Waldo Emerson when he said: ‘There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat’. The window of delicious-eating opportunity is small, but if a pear is not perfect it is indeed improved when baked.
This is what you do:
Take as many pears as you need and simply cut them into quarters and remove the core. It is not necessary to peel them. Place them on a baking tray lined with baking paper or silicone baking paper with the cut side facing up. Lightly brush the pear with melted butter and then sprinkle dukkah over the flesh. Bake these in a 180 C for 40 – 45 minutes until they are soft and brown.
These baked pears are a perfect addition to a cheese board and lovely with honey drizzled over them.
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You had me at goat cheese and honey! One of my favorite combinations is goat cheese, honey and focaccia bread. This sounds and looks amazing!
Thanks Anne, I just love all those flavours too.
Looks and sounds amazing!! We have an awesome international market nearby, I will definitely have to look for the dukkah. I love pretty much anything that involves goat cheese!
these really do look so gorgeous–do you have recipe for the sesame crackers??
I hope you find it Meeling 🙂
Dukkah is one of my fav spice mix and I always a container ready! This sounds fantastic and I am loving the flavor combo.
Beautiful, evocative photos. I am not so keen on pears so maybe I haven’t found that perfect 10 minutes yet.
These pears are absolutely gorgeous!
Your photos are beautiful, Sam! What on earth are you using as a background?
Beautiful Sam, just stunning
Thanks Lolly pops 🙂
Thanks Zirkie, I have all kinds of things to create texture and backgrounds 🙂
Gorgeous pears! Love that honey drizzle 🙂
Hello, I just subscribed to your site. I have been making your roasted cauliflower salad with achovies, caper and olives for a while now and didn’t realise it was your recipe. I originally found it on another UK blog site — one Ren Behan’s Simple and in Season if I remember rightly.
Anyhow, I am now wowed by all your lovely recipes and interesting articles and I shall be a regular visitor.
You made me a little homesick for Cape Town — I lived in South Africa for nearly three years in the ’70’s and visited Cape quite often. A lovely place.
Thanks and look forward to many more of your recipes like these wonderful sounding dukka baked pears! Yum!
Cheers!
Liz
Thanks Liz, I’m glad you enjoy 🙂 (many more where these come from)
Yum! Thank you. Now, I know what I can do with the pears in my house!
Can’t wait to make this! Even if I have to suffer with matzah instead of crackers…
Hi i am addicted to pinterest and do a lot of windowshopping!
Discovered you and love the way you photograph and present
your food ! looks yummy!
Thanks Estelle 🙂
Bounds great, but Dukkah and I have never met, could you introduce it to me, what is it and where to get it. Thanks
Hi Marjike – its a norht African spice mix with cumin, sesema seeds, cinnamon and a few other delicious flavours. Give it a little Google and you will find loads more info. Best sam