This past weekend was everything I love about Fall.
Long walks with friends in the crisp autumn air. Lazy mornings enjoyed at the coffee shop nextdoor. Days snuggled in cozy sweaters and fluffy slippers. Turning leaves everywhere on fire with color. Catching up on episodes of my favorite fall shows, and then watching a moving book club pick come to life in the theater with friends. Taking full advantage of Daylight Savings Time to sleep in an extra hour. Sunday morning worship and words.
And of course, in my opinion, all good weekends must include some quality time in the kitchen.
This particular weekend was all about the pears for me. Ever since my trip in October to visit Harry & David, I have been craving pears nonstop. And then somehow buying them nonstop. :)
So to use up a few leftover ripe pears this weekend, I decided to make a quick small batch of stovetop pear butter. It’s basically like apple butter — but with pears!
This is no all-day, enormous batch, canning recipe though. Just an easy pear butter recipe that can be ready to go in 1 hour. It’s also naturally sweetened with honey, so you can feel good about generously layering a little extra onto your toast or muffin or wherever you may enjoy your pear butter.
I’ll add it to my list of things I love about fall. It’s seasonal, full of yummy spices, and oh-so-comforting and sweet.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
Easy Pear Butter
Ingredients
- 3 lbs. ripe pears, peeled, cored and diced
- 3 Tbsp. honey
- 1 Tbsp. lemon juice
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- pinch of groud nutmeg
- pinch of ground cloves
Instructions
- Stir all ingredients together in a medium saucepan, and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to medium low and simmer for about 50 minutes, covering so that the lid is slightly open, and stirring occasionally. Keep an eye on the mixture so that the bottom does not burn. Once it has reduced slightly and thickened, remove from heat and transfer to a food processor. Pulse until smooth. (Or you can skip this step and keep the pear butter chunky.)
- Transfer to canning jars or a heat-proof container, seal, and refrigerate until ready to use. Keep for up to a week.
- *If your pear butter is too thin, feel free to run the mixture through a strainer to remove extra liquid. Alternately, let the mixture simmer on the stove longer to reduce more.
Did you make this?Let me know how it turned out in the comments below!
The 1x pear butter recipe will fill how many jars?
This is a really easy Pear Butter recipe and it is also really good! Just made my second batch of the year! I did add a little light brown sugar to the recipe.
I will be trying this recipe today thank you
Looks great
Can this be frozen?
Question – there is not really much liquid.. how does this come to a boil?
Those pears will cook out a lot of water.
I made this recipe today, tweaking just a little. I cored, but did not peel my pears; this was much like an apple butter recipe I made a year or so ago. My pears were a little under ripe and not so juicy, so I ultimately added one half cup of water to the cooking pot to get things going. The pear butter turned out beautifully! I’m going to share a pint with my niece whose pears tree we picked.
I made it out of a rotten over-ripened bag of pears on my stove and it came back delicious.
Sorry, came out.
This came out delicious, I added two apples to this recipe. Just the right amount of sweetness. Used pumpkin pie spice since I didn’t have any ground ginger. Great recipe.
Love your idea of adding apple’s and am making it now. Funny thing, I’ve made apple butter and pear butter for 50 years yet never thought to combine the two! Glad for your tip as I’ve a box of apples but only 3 anju pears and two Asian pears so the apples will make enough to share which is my favorite thing. THANK YOU IRENE!
Exactly what I wanted to do! Easy, quick and delicious usage of my over abundance of lovely pears. Thanks so much!
A great simple recipe. Made one wonderful batch, now trying a few changes on the second: adding a few almonds, sliced and toasted, plus a drop of almond seasoning at the end as almonds so good with pears.
Made this tonight with red anjou pears and omg it is soooooo good. I got four 8 oz jars from it and I am definitely going to make some more!
I’m using windfall pears so am concerned there’s not enough juices. Not sure what is ‘coming to a boil’ since no water added. Just getting started but have my doubts…