Slow Cooker Poached Raspberry Pears

Ready in under two hours !! and inexpensive too !!

• Ready In: 1 hr 50 mins
• Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup caster sugar
• 2  cups  apple and cranberry juice
• 4  medium  packham pears, peeled
• 1  vanilla bean, split
• 150  g frozen raspberries
•  cream, to serve

Directions

1. Combine sugar and juice in pot over medium heat.
2. Cook, stirring for 5 minutes till sugar dissolves.
3. Place pears in bowl of 5 litre slow cooker.
4. Pour over syrup.
5. Add the vanilla bean.
6. Cover and turn slow cooker to high.
7. Cook one hour and fifteen minutes, turn halfway through cooking.
8. Add raspberries and cook further 15 minutes.
9. Serve.