Dessert Recipes - Hot Pear and Orange Souffle Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 large orange

• 1 pear, diced

• 20 g/1 1/2 tbsp butter, plus extra for greasing

• 20 g/3 tbsp plain (all-purpose) flour

• 150 ml/2/3 cup milk

• 25 g/1 oz/2 tbsp caster (superfine) sugar

• 2 eggs, separated

• Icing (confectioners') sugar, for dusting

• Orange Sauce, to serve

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Method:

1. Finely grate the rind from the orange. Cut off all the white pith and slice, then roughly chop the flesh.

2. Mix with the pear and spoon into four buttered individual souffle dishes. Melt the butter in a saucepan. Remove from the heat and blend in the flour and milk.

3. Return to the heat and bring to the boil, stirring, until very thick and bubbling.

4. Remove from the heat and beat in the sugar, egg yolks and the orange rind. Whisk the egg whites until stiff.

5. Beat 15 ml/1 tbsp into the mixture to slacken, then fold in the remainder with a metal spoon. Spoon on top of the fruit.

6. Place the dishes on a baking (cookie) sheet and bake in a preheated oven at 200°C/400°F/gas mark 6 for about 15 minutes or until risen and golden.

7. Dust with sifted icing sugar and serve straight away with hot Orange Sauce.