Slow Cooker Poached Raspberry Pears

Total Time: 1 hr 50 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/2 cup caster sugar
• 2 cups apple and cranberry juice
• 4 medium packham pears, peeled
• 1 vanilla bean, split
• 150 g frozen raspberries
• cream, to serve

Recipe

• 1 Combine sugar and juice in pot over medium heat.
• 2 Cook, stirring for 5 minutes till sugar dissolves.
• 3 Place pears in bowl of 5 litre slow cooker.
• 4 Pour over syrup.
• 5 Add the vanilla bean.
• 6 Cover and turn slow cooker to high.
• 7 Cook one hour and fifteen minutes, turn halfway through cooking.
• 8 Add raspberries and cook further 15 minutes.
• 9 Serve.