Baked Brie with Pears and Walnuts

Creamy brie topped with juicy pears and walnuts for a fast and easy appetizer everyone will love.

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The holidays are my favorite time of year. From holiday decorating, to of course holiday cooking, I love it all. We love to entertain during the holidays. We also host Thanksgiving and Christmas, so there is a lot of cooking going on in the MT kitchen. I love planning out my menus. I always incorporate yearly favorites and love adding a few new recipes to my menu each year.

My menu always consists of fast and easy recipes that are full of flavor, that I can either prep ahead of time or whip up as the festivities get started. I do the cooking and leave the dishes to Mr. Mother Thyme. With all the entertaining and cooking I do, I like to have my pantry stocked with key staple ingredients to get me through the holidays. That starts with keeping my pantry stocked with Del Monte® fruits, vegetables and tomatoes. From Del Monte® Diced Tomatoes tossed with pasta to Del Monte® Cut Green Beans, perfect for your Thanksgiving Green Bean Casserole, having a variety of Del Monte® products to choose from is like having a garden in your pantry. When you have Del Monte® in your pantry, you have garden quality™ fruits and vegetables at your fingertips.

One of my favorite holiday appetizers I love to serve is brie. Although I could eat brie 365 days a year, everyone loves brie during the holidays. My recipe for Baked Brie with Pears and Walnuts will quickly become one of your holiday favorites as well. It is fast and easy to make thanks to Del Monte® Pear Chunks in my pantry. If you are heading to a holiday party and bringing a dish to pass, this would be great. Make it ahead of time, and when you get to your party place the brie in a pie plate, pour this yummy pear and walnut mix over the brie and bake for about 20 minutes until warm and bubbly. Serve with a fresh baguette or crackers for a dish everyone will love.

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What you need

Brie

8.25oz can Del Monte® California Pear Chunks, No Sugar Added

Light brown sugar

Cinnamon

Ground ginger

Chopped walnuts

Dried cranberries

Fresh baguette and/or crackers for serving

Step one: Mix pear chunks, reserved pear juice, brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, walnuts and cranberries in a small bowl

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Step two: Place brie round in a pie dish. Pour pear mix over brie. Bake at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes warm and bubbly. Serve with a baguette or crackers.

Baked Brie with Pears and Walnuts | www.motherthyme.com

Baked Brie with Pears and Walnuts | www.motherthyme.com

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Baked Brie with Pears and Walnuts

  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cook Time: 20 minutes
  • Total Time: 25 minutes
  • Yield: 8 servings

Ingredients

  • 1 round (8 oz.) brie
  • 2 (8.25 oz.) Del Monte No Sugar Added Pear Chunks, drained with 1/4 cup juice reserved
  • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
  • 2 tablespoons dried cranberries
  • 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
  • Pinch of ground ginger
  • Fresh baguette slices or crackers for serving

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In a medium bowl mix pear chunks, reserved pear juice, walnuts, cranberries, brown sugar, cinnamon and ginger.
  3. Place brie round in a 9 inch pie plate. Pour pear mixture over pear.
  4. Bake for about 20 minutes until warm and bubbly.
  5. Serve with a fresh baguette and/or crackers.

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115 Comments

  1. We can a lot of jams in the fall using the fruit from our garden including grapes, strawberries and cherries but the one thing that’s always on hand is peaches!

  2. Peaches! My girls went dairy free last year and can of peaches blends an all-fruit smoothie together beautifully plus canned peaches are awesome in oatmeal and scones.

  3. I love having fruits on hand for cooking and for my son. I always choose the no added sugar kind. Canned tomatoes of any variety is also a must.

  4. I must keep canned pears in the pantry as my husband loves them. I keep mandarin oranges for myself and then I keep canned pumpkin for any time of the year baking.

  5. Canned products make cooking and eating quick, easy, nutritious and most importantly, flavorful. I always keep the following on hand: caned fruit, tomatoes, pumpkin, evaporated and sweetened condensed milk, sauces (such as pizza and enchilada) and assorted flavors of pie filling.

  6. I really love to stock canned green beans (grew up eating them sauteed in butter) and organic canned whole and diced tomatoes.

  7. I like to keep tinned carrots, tomatoes, green beans and sweetcorn in the pantry! I also keep a large amount of tinned fruit because my children are big fans, some of our favorites are pineapple chunks and mandarins in light syrup.

  8. We keep canned green beans and sweet corn our pantry. Fruit cocktail is a favorite but it doesn’t stay in the pantry long.

  9. In cans I always have tomatoes and I’m a fool for canned peaches; I think i should add these nice pears with no sugar added. I didn’t know that they made those.

  10. We like to keep pineapple, black beans, green beans and pumpkin…I love to cook with pumpkin. There are so many things you can cook with pumpkin. 😉

  11. I storing peaches, pears, pineapple, green beans, corn, beans….we like to have as many canned items as we can in our food storage! Thanks for this recipe it looks yummy!

  12. I love keeping canned peaches and canned green beans on hand.

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  13. Two canned items I often stock are diced pineaple and diced tomato with green chilis. I use both in quite a few recipes.

  14. Wow…I’m just in time for this contest (crossing my fingers for a win??? Is that even thinkable??).

    I’m actually a loyal Del Monte consumer; and I always keep tomatoes on hand–chili, spaghetti, stews…all seem to need ’em (and esp this time of year, we love them!).

    Thanks for this offer (and I’ve GOT to make this recipe!!). Wowza.

  15. In addition to tomatoes in many forms (diced, crushed, sauce, paste), my pantry is usually stocked with a few favorite cans of fruits and veggies, incuding corn, as a side or as an ingredient in cornbread, casseroles, or Southwest-style dishes; carrots, for quiche or pot pie; peaches, for smoothies; beets, for a side dish; and fruit salad, for Cuppa-Cuppa-Cuppa Cake.

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