A creamy nut and cherry mixture fills pear halves in this elegant salad. If using for a dessert, zig-zag chocolate lines across dessert plate and place pear in center of plate.
How To Make Pear Salad
A delightfully refreshing salad that can hold its own! Either have it as a light dinner, an appetizer or even as a dessert! This delicious pear salad has a variety of textures to keep your experience enjoyable, not to mention the incredible combination of flavors within the dish with thin crisp pears, pecans, cream cheese and maple syrup.
Prep:
15 mins
Chill Time::
2 hrs
Total:
2 hrs 15 mins
Ingredients
- 2 pears, large, halved
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- ½ cup pecans, finely chopped
- ¼ cup maraschino cherries, quartered and drained well
- 2 tbsp maple syrup, can be imitation
For Garnish:
- maraschino cherries
To Serve:
- lettuce
Instructions
- Dry pear halves off gently with paper towels.
- Place on tray and repeat the process until all pears are done.
- Beat cream cheese with maple syrup until smooth with electric mixer.
- By hand, fold in nuts and chopped cherries. Fold well.
- Spoon filling into pear halves using all of the filling up. You just heap it up in the pears.
- Place maraschino cherries on top of pear filling.
- Chill for several hours.
- Serve on a bed of lettuce on pretty salad plates.
Nutrition
- Sugar: 23g
- :
- Calcium: 91mg
- Calories: 386kcal
- Carbohydrates: 31g
- Cholesterol: 57mg
- Fat: 29g
- Fiber: 4g
- Iron: 1mg
- Monounsaturated Fat: 10g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g
- Potassium: 254mg
- Protein: 5g
- Saturated Fat: 12g
- Sodium: 180mg
- Vitamin A: 797IU
- Vitamin C: 4mg
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