Pears with cinnamon in dough from Maxim Myasnikov

Ingredients

• 4 strong tasty pears
• 1 orange
• 4 large sheets of filo pastry
• 300 g sugar
• zest of 1 lemon and 1 orange
• 4 star anise
• 4 boxes of cardamom
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 4 buds of cloves
• raspberry sauce for serving

Cooking

Step 1

Pour 600 ml of water into a small saucepan, add sugar and all spices, including zest. Bring to a boil, cook over low heat for 15 minutes.

Step 2

Peel the pears, cut off the very bottom and carefully remove the core through the bottom. Put the pears in the syrup, cook until soft, 10-15 minutes. Cool the pears in the syrup, then remove.

Step 3

Cut the peel off the orange along with the white part. Cut the fillet into slices between the films. Stuff the pears with orange fillets.

Step 4

Cut each sheet of phyllo into 4 strips, moisten the edges with syrup, wrap the pears crosswise. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and bake in a preheated oven at 170°C for 10 minutes. Serve hot with raspberry sauce.