There’s a lot you can do with pears. Bake them into tarts, roast them until they’re warm and golden, or turn them into a pear jam, ready for dolloping onto pikelets. The choice is yours.
Shiraz gin and pear brioche cake with gin ice-cream
Photo: Ben Dearnley
Fig, prosciutto, pear and witlof salad with pomegranate vinaigrette
Photo: Con Poulos
Brigitte Hafner’s Italian pear and polenta torte
Photo: Prue Ruscoe
Pear and vanilla soufflés with apple sorbet
Photo: Chris Court
Grilled spatchcock with pear and cabbage salad, hazelnuts and sherry
Photo: Sharyn Cairns
Roast pork cutlets with pear, witlof and hazelnut salad
Photo: John Paul Urizar
Radish, pear and seaweed salad with miso dressing
Photo: William Meppem
Photo: Ben Dearnley
Honey and saffron roasted pears with spiced yoghurt
Photo: Ben Dearnley
Photo: Chris Court
Pear brioche tart with maple custard cream
Photo: William Meppem
Photo: Ben Dearnley
Photo: Chris Court
Semolina pudding with caramel pears
Photo: Ben Dearnley
Baked matcha custard with ginger-poached pears
Photo: William Meppem
Photo: William Meppem
Curtis Stone’s maple pear and muesli crumble
Photo: William Meppem
Ginger-chocolate tart with roast pears
Photo: Mikkel Vang
Photo: Ben Hansen
Pear, honey and ginger pudding
Photo: Chris Court
Stokehouse Q’s dark chocolate pots de crème with ginger pear
Photo: Andrew Finlayson
Bar Rochford’s hay panna cotta with chamomile pears and malt crumb
Photo: Mark Roper
Cabbage, celeriac and pear salad
Photo: Ben Dearnley
Jaci Koludrovic’s caramelised Marsala pear crostata
Photo: Ben Dearnley
Photo: Chris Chen
An easy plum, pear and ginger crumble
Photo: Ben Dearnley
Glazed pear and sour cream buns
Photo: Chris Court
Photo: Dean Wilmot
Photo: Ben Dearnley
Photo: Ben Dearnley
Slow-roasted leg of lamb with rosé pears and cloves of garlic
Photo: Con Poulos
Roast pears with maple syrup and vanilla crème fraîche
Photo: Ben Dearnley
