Poached Pears Tarts in Chocolate Sauce

This is one of those dessert which one think is difficult to make as it looks so good, but then when you read the recipe and make it, you are surprised how easy it is to make them.
Not to mention how delicious it is. It was as they all are finished now.

How can it not be delicious, it has puff pastry, pears, nuts and CHOCOLATEFor sure I am going to make them again.............

This I am sending to Ragga of Singing Chef who in her own words I'm a singer and cook trapped in the body of an HR professional.She is hosting this month
This is my last post. Taking a break as my daughter is having her spring beak.Will be back after the first week of April.
During this period I have promised myself I am not going to take even a peek in any blogs :-)

And before I go I have to say I got this Lovely You make my Day Award from Ruth's Kitchen Experiments.
Thankyou Ruth I was overjoyed when i got it.
Normally I have to pass this to few fellow blogger, but I coudn't decide who all to give it. So this is for all my friends who visit me here and say such encouraging comments.

Ingridients.
3 firm pears, peeled
400 ml water
Few ornage peels
1 tbsp Vanilla essence
1 bay leaf
50 gm sugar6 square sheets of puff pastry
40 gm real cacao powder5 tbsp cream
25 gm soft butter
50 gm walnuts chopped
1 egg
A bit of sugar to sprinkle

Few of the ingridients

Boiling in the sugar syrup

Ready to go in the oven

Yummy

Half the pears and remove the middle and scopp a bit out from the middle.
Bring the water to boil in a pan abd add the orange peel, vanilla essence, sugar and bat leaf.
Bring it to boil and add the pears.
Boil them for 10 minutes in slow fire with a cover.

Now take the pears out and keep the sugar syrup aside ( remove the ornage peel and the bay leaf) Let the pear cool down.

Preheat the oven to 200°cNow take the pastrt sheets and cut them into pear shapes ( show in the pic).
Apply egg wash over it.ng tray.

Mix the butter ,sugar and the walnuts in a bowl.
Take a tsp of the filling and fill the holes of each pear.
Lay the pears the filled side down on the puff pastry.
Sprnikle with sugar.

Bake the tarts 15 to 20 minutes or untill it is golden brown.

In the mean time. Put the sugar syrup in a pan and cook in a high heat for 10 minutes.
Mix the cacao powder with 4 tbsp of cold water.
Add the mix to the sugar syrup and mix well.
Let the sauce get thick till you have 150 ml left
Now add the cream and mix it very well.

When the tart is baked, serve them with chocolate sauce poured over it.
Enjoy.

Achappam Mould for Click

My Entry for Click

From the time The famous duo announced their theme for this months click

I have been thinking about what to send for them.

Few times I passed their Image Gallery and came back depressed seeing all the beautiful pictures from the other participants. If you ladies go and have a look there you will know what I mean.
But then I do think main thing is to join up the event.
And still there is more than 2 weeks to go so you can imagine how many more entries they are going to get.This is the mould to make achappam a traditional Kerela snack made with rice flour,coconut mil eggs etc.If you want to see how the achappam looks just visit Aparna's My Diverse Kitchen.

My mom used to make them for special occasions.
I have never made them, this mould I got gifted from one of our friends who went for their annual visit to Kerela.
I still have to use them......So in the meanwhile I thought I will make use of it atleast like this by taking a picture and sending for this months