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Any cook’s main dish is always the piece de resistance. That’s why it’s so important to serve a main dish that is beautiful, impressive and above all, delicious! How about trying an original Jamaican curry, a Tex-Mex taco pie, or a classic, hearty chili. Or you can go vegetarian with a beautiful stuffed eggplant main dish. Check out our main dish recipes for some mouth-watering inspiration.
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Ingredients
- 150g / 3/4 cup sugar
- 150g / 2/3 cup softened butter
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp fresh yeast
- 180g / 1 1/2 cups flour
- 190g / 1 1/2 cups chocolate, melted
- 4 pears
Method
- Combine sugar, butter and eggs in bowl. Mix well.
- Add fresh yeast and flour and mix through.
- Pour in melted chocolate and fold into mixture.
- Peel 4 pears (or as many comfortably fit in your baking pan)
- Pour chocolate mixture into lined or greased baking loaf pan.
- Evenly space the pears in the pan, sitting upright.
- Bake at 350°F / 180°C for 35 minutes.
- Drizzle with more melted chocolate, and serve.
- Enjoy!
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Top Recipe
Stuffed Eggplant
By Lingonberrylane, Lydia Ln
Details
Servings 2
Level of difficulty Easy
Preparation time 10
Cost Average budget
- 1 Eggplant
- 3 slices Bacon
- 1/4-1/2 cup onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 package button mushrooms
- Cheese - I used a mixture of cheddar and parmesan because that's what I had on hand.
- Topping:
- breadcrumbs - I had some homemade from an old baguette mixed with a little parmesan, garlic and chives
- Garnish (make it pretty)
- Crumbled bacon
- chives
- parsley
You can't go wrong with this delicious dish!
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