Kickstart Your Day with Sausage-Stuffed Baked Pears 🍔🍐
Baked Pears Filled with Sausage Meat
This delightful dish blends the best of breakfast's sweet and savory flavors: succulent pears overflowing with a lip-smacking mixture of breakfast sausage and tantalizing spices.
- Servings: 4
- Difficulty: A breeze!
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Active Time: 35 minutes
Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 4 firm, ripe pears (such as Bosc or Anjou)
- 1/2 medium red onion, finely diced (approx. 1 cup)
- 1 medium celery rib, finely diced (around 1/4 cup)
- 1 medium garlic clove, minced
- 1 pound breakfast sausage links
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 1 1/4 cups fresh breadcrumbs
- 3 tablespoons whole milk
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon paprika
Procedure:
- Warm up oil in a medium frying pan over medium heat. Peel and core 1/2 pear, then cut into small cubes. Combine diced pear with onion and celery and season with a pinch of salt and freshly ground black pepper. When oil sizzles, toss in the pear mixture and cook until the onion becomes translucent, approximately 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook until soft, approximately 1 minute.
- Take the pear mixture off the heat and transfer it to a medium-sized bowl. Allow it to chill in the refrigerator for around 15 minutes.
- Discard the sausage casing and crumble the sausage into the cooled pear mixture. Add beaten egg, breadcrumbs, milk, cinnamon, and paprika, then mix thoroughly. (To ensure seasoning is flawless, shape a small patty from the mixture and cook in a skillet over medium heat until browned and cooked through, about 2 minutes per side. Taste and tweak spices if needed.)
- Heat the oven to 350°F (175°C) and position a rack in the center. Halve the remaining pears lengthwise, remove the stems, and slice a thin slice from the uncut side of each pear to create a level base. Utilizing a melon baller or a small spoon, scoop out the core and a similar amount around the core to form a cavity for the sausage mixture. Season each pear half with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- Divide the sausage mixture among the pear halves, filling them generously. Arrange the stuffed pears in a baking dish and pop them into the oven for around 30 minutes, until the pears are soft and the filling is golden and cooked through.
Enjoy this scrumptious dish as a breakfast treat, or savor it for a satisfying dessert to share with loved ones! 😋🥧
Fun Fact ✨
A single pear tree can bear approximately 3,000 pears! 🌳🍐
- This Sausage-Stuffed Baked Pears recipe incorporates numerous beneficial components like pears, onion, celery, and garlic that offer nutritional benefits.
- The pear-stuffed dish from Aussiedlerbote's collection has a stepped-by-step procedure with clear instructions for preparation, ensuring anyone can make it.
- To ensure that the sausage-stuffed pear recipe delivers its full flavor potential, a taste test is recommended by following the instructions to make a small patty and adjusting the spices as needed.
