Red, White & Blue Cheese Stuffed Smoked Pears

Red, White & Blue Cheese Stuffed Smoked Pears

This version leans sweet, smoky, and savory with the bold bite of blue cheese. It works great as either a BBQ appetizer or light dessert.

Ingredients

• 3 ripe Bosc or Anjou pears, halved and cored
• 4 oz crumbled blue cheese
• 1 tbsp honey
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• ½ tsp Girls Gone Grillin’ SPG with a Kiss of Onion (optional but excellent with pears)
• ½ cup fresh blueberries
• ½ cup raspberries or chopped strawberries
• 2 tbsp candied pecans or chopped toasted pecans
• Honey for drizzle

Instructions

• Preheat smoker
• Set smoker to 250°F using pecan, apple, or cherry wood.
• Prep pears
• Slice pears in half and scoop out seeds to create a small cavity.
• Season
• Sprinkle the cut pears lightly with brown sugar and SPG with a Kiss of Onion.
• Stuff with blue cheese
• Fill each pear half with crumbled blue cheese.

Smoke

Place pears on a grill pan or cast iron skillet.

Smoke 25–35 minutes, until pears are soft and the cheese begins to melt.

Top it off

Remove from smoker and add:

blueberries

raspberries or strawberries

toasted pecans

Finish

Drizzle with warm honey.

Flavor Tip 

If you want to push the flavor even further for your Girls Gone Grillin’ style, add a very light drizzle of balsamic glaze right before serving.

• Girls Gone Grillin’ Sweet and Sticky BBQ seasoning
• Girls Gone Grillin’ Hot Hens BBQ seasoning
• Girls Gone Grillin' Cherry Chipotle BBQ Sauce
• Girls Gone Grillin’ S.P.G. Plus a Kiss of Onion BBQ seasoning