Recipe information
Yield
Makes 4 cheese-course servings
Ingredients
2 firm-ripe pears
3 to 4 ounces firm blue cheese (about 2/3 cup), crumbled
3 to 4 soft dried figs, stemmed and finely chopped (about 1/3 cup)
Preparation
Step 1
Cut each pear lengthwise into 10 (1/8- to 1/4-inch-thick) slices (5 from one side, then 5 more from the opposite side), avoiding core and discarding rounded outermost slices.
Step 2
Layer 4 pear slices with cheese and fig on each of 4 plates, beginning with largest pear slices, and ending with smallest.
Step 3
Sprinkle any remaining cheese and fig around napoleons.
