Categories: Beef main dish

Ingredients

• 4 (6 oz.) beef tenderloin fillets
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. pepper
• 2 Tbsp. butter or margarine
• 2 Tbsp. olive oil
• 3 Bartlett pears, peeled and halved
• 1 cup Madeira wine
• 1 garlic clove, pressed
• 1/4 tsp. dried thyme
• 4 oz. blue cheese

Directions

1. Sprinkle fillets with salt and pepper.
2. Melt butter with oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat; add fillets, and cook 5 minutes on each side or to desired degree of doneness. Remove fillets and keep warm.
3. Add pear halves to skillet; cook over medium heat 5 minutes on each side or until browned. Add wine, garlic, and thyme; cook 5

4. minutes or until pear halves from skillet, reserving wine mixture in skillet.

5. Cook wine mixture in skillet over high heat 7 to 8 minutes or until mixture is reduced by half.
6. Stuff each pear half evenly with blue cheese. Serve with fillets, and drizzle with sauce.

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