welcome to our homestead and welcome to
our kitchen today we're going to be
showing you how to make a pear butter in
an instant pot with the pears that we
just picked off our tree last week let's
get going
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so the first part is done in the instant
pot and it makes this process go way
faster than normal but you're still
going to need to use your blender and
then we will take out the insert the
stainless steel insert out of the
instant pot and put it on the stove to
complete our pear butter all right it's
step one we're gonna peel and quarter
our pears so a good thing to have handy
is a bowl of cold water and what we're
gonna do is we're gonna juice half a
lemon into that bowl just so when we
quarter our pears after they're peeled
they don't get brown and oxidized this
will help to keep them from oxidizing
now comes the fun part the tedious
process of peeling your pears but it
really must be done on most pair
varieties because the skin is just too
tough
so utilize whatever knife you have
and what's easiest for you in taking out
the
center of
your pears for us we can use our santoku
knife it's fine you may want a paring
knife or if you have a metal melon
baller which works really well with
pears because they're very hard you can
also use that but do what's easiest for
you
now for this recipe we are going to use
four pounds of pears that is about
13 12 to 13 peeled medium sized pears
but get close to four pounds it's always
good to have a scale in your kitchen for
that reason now that we have all of our
pears cut up and in our instant pot we
are going to add three quarters of a cup
of water
a tiny pinch of salt now a lot of you
know salt enhances flavor
if you put too much it's going to taste
salty but a little pinch like that will
enhance the flavor of your pear butter
later we're also going to add just a
tiny squeeze of lemon not too much
either because
i'd say maybe a half a teaspoon
because if we do then it's going to give
it
more of a soury taste and we really
don't want that now i like to add a few
spices we like cardamom and star anise
you can add cinnamon you can add nutmeg
allspice whatever you like it's your
personal preference and if you don't
want to add anything like that it's
great just by itself
we're gonna put the top on
lock it down
and we're gonna use the manual function
and set it for six minutes six minutes
is all you'll need in your instant pot
it'll break them down really fast and
then we can transfer them to our blender
okay our pears are done the next thing
for us to do is transfer them into our
blender
so we're not going to want to transfer
all the liquid into there just a little
bit of the liquid
we're going to scoop these out
and place them in
you're going to be left with a decent
amount of liquid in the bottom
of your
instant pot
and that is cooked out you want to get
that liquid out of there because when we
make our pear butter we're going to
reduce it even more
and we want as little liquid in there as
possible just enough liquid for our
blender to blend it properly we're going
to blend this until it's very very
smooth
so this is the cool thing about the
instant pot you can use the stainless
steel inside pot
right on your stove so we're going to
actually pour our mixture
it's basically a pear sauce at this
point we're going to pour it all in here
and we are going to bring it up to a
simmer probably medium high height
once we hit that simmer we're going to
back that
temperature back down to about medium
low maybe even just at the top between
low and medium low because we want to
slowly cook out all of that water that's
in there and what that will start to do
is concentrate the sugars in our pear
butter it will thicken up and it will
become sweeter because all that water is
gone and that's what we want we want it
cooked down it'll start to turn a
beautiful golden brown and i'll show you
the end product in a minute with this
amount of pear sauce it's going to take
about an hour and a half
maybe a little bit longer to cook this
down to where it's the proper
consistency now there's a lot of water
in it right now but you want to make
sure that you're continually stirring
throughout this process just to make
sure things are not sticking or burning
on the bottom especially when it starts
to reduce and get towards that
consistency that we want now the reason
we're not using the instant pot itself
for the rest of the process is the saute
feature we found is just way too strong
it's way too hot to be able to cook this
down at a slow rate like we need it to
the saute feature on there seems to be
like a medium high and that's just not
appropriate for this process now you
could try to use the slow cook but you
also have to close the top so that's not
really going to work you can leave the
valve open at the top
also
kind of a pain and not really
appropriate for this process so just
bring it out put it on the stove okay
it's actually been about two hours and i
got it to cook down to about a third of
what i had put in the pot originally
let's show you what the color looks like
and then we'll put it in our canyon jars
look at that gorgeous brown color and
you can see like i said it's about a
third of what we started with
let's get it into the jar
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well here it is how beautiful is that we
got one pint from the
13 pairs that we did earlier in the
process so that gives you an idea of how
many pairs you're going to need for
however much you want for your family
and i've got a spoon right here i
haven't tasted it yet this is from the
pot
now it's all over my mustache
and on my beard but it is fantastic it
does have a little bit of tartness to it
still but i like it like that if you
want it more concentrated you can cook
it down a little bit more if you like if
you have any questions leave them for me
in the comment section below the video
now i want you to go check out this
video right here which shows you how to
properly harvest and ripen your pears
and this video right here which shows
you how to water bath canned pears have
a great day we'll see on the next video
bye
you