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Pears with Creamy Chocolate Sauce

Pears with Creamy Chocolate Sauce

Tender pear halves served with a warm, rich chocolate sauce made with cocoa and evaporated milk for a simple yet elegant dessert.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 7 minutes
Total Time 17 minutes
Servings: 8
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Calories: 76
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 tablespoon butter or margarine
  • 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
  • 1 (28-ounce) can no sugar added pear halves in fruit juice
  • 2 tablespoons cocoa
  • 1 (12-ounce) can 2% evaporated milk
  • 3 tablespoons Equal Spoonful

Method
 

  1. In small saucepan, melt butter; whisk in flour; cool 1 minute. Drain pears reserving 1/3 cup liquid and set pear halves aside.
  2. Whisk cocoa into reserved liquid; add to flour mixture in saucepan. Stir in evaporated milk.
  3. Cook over medium heat until mixture boils and thickens. Remove from heat and stir in Equal.
  4. Divide pear halves on serving plates. Drizzle with warm chocolate sauce.

Notes

Food Exchanges: 1 vegetable, 1 very lean meat
Recipe provided courtesy of Merisant Corporation ® and the NutraSweet Company, makers of Equal®.