Pear Helene

by Tarla Dalal

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A rich fare of pears and chocolate sauce with vanilla ice - cream.

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Pear Helene recipe - How to make Pear Helene

Fruit Based Indian Desserts

Preparation time: 30 mins. Cooking time: a few minutes. Total Time: 32 mins 12Serves 12
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Ingredients

4 1/2 to 5 1/4 cups milk
1 can (400 grams) condensed milk
2 tbsp sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 large can (850 grams) pears
50 gms cooking chocolate or milk chocolate
50 gms milk chocolate
a few blanched almonds or
2 tbsp chopped walnuts (akhrot)

Method

Mix the milk, condensed milk, sugar and vanilla essence.
Prepare the ice-cream in an ice-cream churner.
Chill the pears and cut into slices.
Add 1 teaspoon of water to the chocolate slab and cook in a double boiler. When it melts, take off the fire.

How to serve

Put a scoop of the ice-cream in each plate and cover it with pears and a little syrup. Pour 1 teaspoon of the chocolate sauce over the pears and sprinkle chopped nuts.

Tips

For recipes which require use of an ice-cream churner, either a hand or an electric churner can be used. The churning incorporates air and gives a ---
--light texture. Churned ice-creams can be prepared ahead and stored in the refrigerator in a plastic box or in a vessel covered on top with ----
---polyethylene. In this way, the formation of ice crystals is avoided.