This recipe for Poached Pears with Chocolate Sauce Poires Belle Hélène is another in our series from food and travel writer Ann Mah’s new cookbook Instantly French! This book shows you how to use your electric pressure cooker to create classic French dishes.
“Pears and chocolate combine in this classic dessert, which was named after an Offenbach operetta and is still served in the cafés that line the Grands Boulevards near Paris’s Palais Garnier.
Though this dessert seems complex, with the help of the pressure cooker, it becomes deceptively simple: The pears poach easily in the pressure cooker—and the microwave-friendly chocolate sauce can be made in just one minute. Accompany with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, if desired.”
Copyright © 2018 by Ann Mah. Reprinted with permission of St. Martin’s Griffin.