The orange chef goes global with:

Blueberry pear sauce with thyme, rosemary and cognac

Orange chef making the sauce

For 4 not too greedy people

To make more, just take more of any fruit you like! (You can easily take 2 pears or an apple)

Ingredients:

1 orange

4 tablespoons (Demerara) sugar

100 gram blueberries

1 pear

50 ml cognac

2 twigs rosemary

2 (lemon) thyme

Mise en place:

-Peel zest off of half the orange. Only the orange part of the orange, or bitterness will rule the sauce, as we say in good Dutch.

Watch this guy make perfect zest!

http://www.ehow.com/video_4790427_make-orange-zest.html

-Rinse blueberries

-Peel pear en cut in eight to 16 pieces

-Rinse rosemary and thyme

Start cooking:

-be careful with tasting!!! The sauce will be extremely hot.-

Take a pan, any pan will do but make sure the pan is big enough to mess around. Heated sugar is dangerously hot.

-Start with the sugar and blueberries in the pan on medium heat.

Leave them to melt for a short time,

stir a little after some of the berries are melted.

When all is well mixed add pear, orange zest and herbs.

-mix well.

Attention: if the pear is ripe do not cook to long, about 4 minutes will do. When not ripe, cook the pear till slightly soft.

-now add the cognac or for non-alcoholics some fruit juice.

-reduce the sauce a little

-take out the herbs!!!

Done!!!

Now serve with:

Icecream; Applepie; Yoghurt; custard etc. etc.

Cooking with herbs has a few attention points.

-The flavours can be overpowering and the herbs are also quite chewy.

*so rosemary and thyme in this recipe should not could too long with the sauce.

You will have to try out what you like.

*remove them before they fall apart;

*put them in a little cloth-bag, this works really well in soups and other liquids.

*do not stir to much in the pan, so the herbs won’t break

   

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