Salted caramel pear puffs

Build 300g of the sugar and the vanilla pod in a narrow, deep saucepan with 1 litre of water. Expend a vegetable peeler to pare the zest from the lemon, then plunge that in the pan too. Warmth gently till the sugar has melted, then raise to a simmer. In the meantime, juice the lemon and peel the skin from the pears, rubbing with lemon juice as you high-tail, to terminate the flesh browning. Shield it up peeling till the pears are reduced to a dimension that finest takes up about half of of one in all the holes of a muffin tin. Build the pears in the pan with the poaching liquid, quilt and switch down the warmth. Gently poach for approximately 30 mins till they are primarily soft – take a look at with a skewer on the widest fragment. Shield the fruit submerged in the poaching liquid in the fridge till ready to total the pudding.

In the meantime, create a salted caramel sauce by melting the remaining 200g sugar and the butter together in a saucepan. Once the sugar has dissolved, add the cream, raise to the boil and bubble for 2 mins whereas stirring. Remove from the warmth and dash in the salt. Assemble the batter by whizzing the milk, egg and flour in a meals processor or blender till delicate (or scurry by hand). Switch the batter to a jug. Both will also be made as a lot as 24 hrs forward, staunch relax till you’d be ready.

To total, warmth oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Divide about ½ tsp sunflower oil between 6 holes of a deep, metal muffin tin. Build in the oven to warmth for 10 mins. Dazzling the scandalous of every pear so that they’ll sit flat, then dip in about a of the caramel sauce and transfer to a plate for a minute for the extra to hotfoot off (it’s doubtless you’ll perchance tip this attend in with the leisure of the sauce).

Working rapidly, sit a pear in every hole of the tin, and pour the batter in and around. Build attend in the oven and bake for 16-20 mins till the puffs are risen and golden. Warm the caramel sauce whereas the puffs are baking, then attend together straight, with further cream or crème fraîche.