Bacon Wrapped Roasted Pears with Goat Cheese and Honey is an unforgettable unique appetizer for serving guests!
I have some Questions for you.
Goat cheese. Have you ever had it roasted in the oven?
Have you ever wanted to be wrapped in bacon?
Pears. How do you feel about them?
As we all know, I’m not an huge fan of fall/winter fruit, but as it turns out, stuffing the dang things with goat cheese, engulfing them in bacon, roasting them in the oven, then razzle dazzling them with honey is a two thousand percent improvement upon the pear.
So if you’re already a pear fan, I can only imagine what these beauties will do to your face trap.
As it turns out, scooping out the core of pears, stuffing them with goat cheese, wrapping them with bacon and roasting them in the oven is a recipe for a miracle.
Every bite it a melt-in-your mouth experience. If you’re looking for a fun and unique appetizer recipe, this may just be a great fit!
The Inspiration for This Recipe:
Recently, I was faced with the dilemma of having too many slices of bacon and nowhere to put them. You’re looking at me like, “Oh, hun…you just put those straight into your mouth.” <- I could squeeze you.
BUT I wanted to purpose the bacon for something that could help you out in life, too.
So I sat on the bacon – figuratively, of course – until something jumped out at me that I could share with you.
As fate would have it, I was thumbing through the November issue of Cooking Light and crash landed on a TWO-PAGE spread that was titled, “Bacon.” I did a somersault double backflip triple lutz because the spread included 20 some easy recipes that all involved bacon. Options! Marvelous! Just marvelous.
I closed my eyes, pointed to a spot on the page, and whaddya know, I landed on these Bacon-Roasted Pears.
The recipe calls for stuffing the pears with Greek yogurt and goat cheese, and drizzling the thing with balsamic reduction. Delicious.
However, I figured eliminating the Greek yogurt and sticking to the goat cheese would make the thing that much richer, and I was feeling too lazy to reduce balsamic vinegar. SO omit the Greek yogurt, and drizzle the pears with honey I did. Just marvelous!
How do you do with lack of symmetry?
Oh hey, check out the Maple and Rosemary Toasted Cashews photo bombing the photograph!
So what you’ve got to do with these is make them as an appetizer for any occasion, but particularly for your Thanksgiving hoorah next week!
They take about seven seconds to assemble and they can just hang out in your oven for 40 minutes, since it’s already going to be preheated and everything.
Spoiler alert: they perfume your home with bacon scent.
Stuff thy pears!
Bacon Wrapped Roasted Pears with Goat Cheese and Honey
Ingredients
- 4 bosc pears halved and cored
- 8 tablespoons goat chevre
- 8 pieces thick-cut bacon
Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with foil.
- Halve the pears and core them.
- Stuff each pear half with 1 tablespoon (or desired amount) of goat cheese.
- Wrap each pear half with 1 slice bacon, and place on the foil-lined baking sheet.
- Place baking sheet in cold oven; bake at 375degrees F for 40 minutes or until bacon is crisp. Turn broiler to high; broil 1 minute.
- Sprinkle a little sea salt over the pear halves, drizzle with honey and serve with fresh rosemary.
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Oh man this looks SO good! I feel like I see pears being underutilized in the food blogging world. I’m tempted to make this when I get home!!
i cannot wait to spring this recipe on my sisters. these pears are beyond beautiful. thanks, again, julia!
Ah heck yea! Let me know how you and your sistas like them!
BEAUTIFUL! I can almost taste them!
You may just be having a taste of them soon!
These look absolutely perfect! What an amazing combination of flavors.
suuuuuriously! Such simple flavors, so magnificently delicious!
What?! These look ridiculous and beautiful. Perfect for Thanksgiving actually!
Thanks, my dear! They may be on my Friendsgiving or Thanksgiving menu xoxo
I love this recipe!!! I also love the psychology in R, too funny!
Waaadehoooo! So happy you like it, girl! There’s so much to love about a juicy roasted pear swaddled in crispy bacon and stuffed with cheese!
Oh boy, so many good things happening on here. Bacon + fruit is something that needs to happen more often. I want to sink my teeth into one of these beauties right now!
Ain’t that the truth?! Bacon makes all the things better.
This looks unreal!! I need to try this
Yeeeeers, you totally do!! Let me know if you try them out – they’re easy to make, I promise!
What a wonderful way to feature pears—-so delicious this time of year—-and serve an outstanding
appetizer.
Thanks, Carol! They are an excellent appetizer, indeed! Enjoy. xo
food porn to the max.
Mmmmhmmm…thems’s real food porn beauts.
You can put that bacon right on my plate with one of these pears. Oh my, this recipe is amazing, like get-in-my-mouth amazing. Your photos are so purdy.
Cheers to an endless supply of bacon..and better yet, pears wrapped with bacon stuffed with CHEEZ!
Ju, these pears looks absolutely beautiful and delicious! Excellent recipe for this time of the year! Thanks for sharing this recipe! Have a great week 😉
Thanks, Olivia! They’re so easy to whip up and they’re sooo tasty!
You are hilarious! I felt like you were doing a song and dance in my living room waxing poetic about these roasted pears with goat cheese and bacon. And now I want one for breakfast. And lunch. And dinner. And dessert.
These are gorgeous, Julia! You can make the plates are crooked as you want, as long as you keep delivering me food like this. I won’t judge (OK, secretly I will judge you). 🙂
LOL this is why I use round plates most of the time…I just can’t get on board with symmetry, but I know I’m probably sending some of my readers into shock when I post unsymmetrical lines 😉 Let’s eat all the bacon-wrapped pears.
I’ve never paired bacon with pears before! I don’t know why! These look wonderful.
OH EM Geepers! Get thee some bacon wrapped pears! It’s a real game changer, to be sure!
I’m majorly not into pears, as it turns out, but if anything could turn me and my wayward tastebuds around, it’s goat cheese and honey. And a good roast.
I hear ya girl, pears are not high on my priority list, either. The goat cheese + honey is a major improvement, and I bet some vegan coconut bacon sprinkled on top would be excellent, too! xoxo
I’m going to make these tonight for an appetizer potluck. I’m supposed to pear it (see what I did there?) with a beverage. So tired of white wine. Got any suggestions for a cocktail to go with?
Ah jeez, I’m late in responding to this, but dang, I bet a pear cocktail would have been amazing!! Or like an apple cider dark and stormy type of situation? Also, perhaps my lemon thyme bourbon cocktails: https://www.theroastedroot.net/lemon-thyme-bourbon-cocktails-naturally-sweetened/ Hope you enjoyed the pears!
I take the time to search reviews of recipes, which means a reader has tested this and is now giving their opinion for others to decide if they will take the time to make it.
I love that you have faithful fans but wish people who have actually made the recipe would leave a review- otherwise it’s not really a review is it?
Having said that I am making this tonight and will leave an honest actual review for your readers. 😊