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October 9, 2019

Easy Small Batch Cranberry Pear Butter (Paleo, Vegan)

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Sweet pears and tart cranberries transform themselves into a velvety smooth spread in no time with this easy small batch cranberry pear fruit butter recipe.

Cranberry Pear Butter in Jars

While apples and pumpkins are undoubtedly the stars of the fall season, it’s also around this time of year that cranberries and pears reach their peak.

Of course cranberries get plenty of love in the form of sauce for our holiday tables but other than that their potential is left overlooked.  And while pears are certainly easier to eat and appreciate outside of the holidays, they often take a backseat to apples when it comes to recipes.  Take fruit butters for example where the apple and pumpkin varieties reign supreme, which is a shame since naturally sweet pears make a delicious fruit butter, especially when paired with cranberries.

Cranberry Pear Butter on Knife

Fall is the ideal time to make fruit butter.  It’s the time of year when we do a lot of giving and receiving and a homemade jar of fruit butter is always appreciated.  It’s also nice to have a jar on hand in the fridge to spread on pancakes, waffles and muffins, or just to swirl into yogurt or ice cream.  The possibilities are really limitless.

The great thing about making fruit butter is that they don’t require any fussy equipment for jam making like thermometers or canning equipment.  There’s also no pectin involved or any guessing about whether your jam has set properly.  You just cook the fruit down until it’s thick, velvety and spreadable.

Cranberry Pear Butter in Jars with Spoons

The only tricky bit is that most fruit butter recipes can require anywhere from 3 hours to all day to make!  This is not one of those recipes; this festive colored cranberry pear butter comes together in about an hour with very little hands on cooking time.

Rather than cooking the fruit down first before putting it through a food mill, sweetening it,  and returning it to the stove to thicken, you simply blitz everything together in the blender or food processor first and then let it all bubble away on the stove, stirring occasionally until it thickens and transforms itself into fruit butter.

While tart cranberries and sweet pears is a delicious combination on its own, I like to add a strip of lemon peel for brightness but you can also opt for a stick of cinnamon or a vanilla bean if you’d prefer.  Dress it up however you choose, this cranberry pear butter tastes like fall in a jar.

Easy Small Batch Cranberry Pear Butter (Paleo, Vegan)

Sylvie Shirazi

Yields 1 jar

Sweet pears and tart cranberries transform themselves into a velvety smooth spread in no time with this easy small batch cranberry pear fruit butter recipe.

5 minPrep Time

45 minCook Time

50 minTotal Time

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Ingredients

  • 2 ripe barlett pears, peeled, cored and cut into quarters
  • 1 cup/100g fresh or frozen cranberries
  • ¼ cup/60ml unsweetened cranberry juice
  • ¼ cup + 2 Tablespoons/ 90g maple syrup
  • 2 teaspoons/10ml fresh lemon juice
  • 1 strip of lemon zest, or 1 cinnamon stick, or ½ a vanilla bean

Instructions

  1. Place pears and cranberries in the bowl of a food processor and process until smooth. Combine pear cranberry puree, cranberry juice, maple syrup, lemon juice and flavor of choice in a heavy deep sided pot.
  2. Bring to a simmer, lower heat and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until mixture thickens and is a spreadable consistency, (about 45 minutes to an 1 hour).
  3. Remove lemon strip, cinnamon stick or vanilla bean. Transfer cranberry pear butter into a clean jam jar. Store in the refrigerator.

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Occasions
Thanksgiving
Fall
Courses
Sauces/Condiments
Breakfast
Diet
vegetarian
vegan
paleo
lacto vegetarian
ovo vegetarian
pescetarian
Allergy
gluten free
dairy free
egg free
wheat free
treenut free
soy free
seafood free
sesame free
mustard free

Nutrition

Calories

386 cal

Fat

1 g

Carbs

101 g

Protein

2 g
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Sylvie

Sylvie Shirazi is the recipe developer and food photographer behind Gourmande in the Kitchen. For the last 10 years she’s been making eating more healthfully easy and accessible with gluten-free, grain-free, paleo and vegan recipes that are free from processed ingredients.

Filed Under: Breakfast, Courses/Meal, Diets, Fall, Gluten-Free, Grain-Free, Paleo, Recipes, Season, Sweets, Vegan Tagged With: cranberries, pears, spread

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