Need great fig recipes, please

joditenzer

Last year, Whole Foods had what may have been my favorite hot food of all time- figs with goat cheese and bacon. I've been dreaming about them ever since. I bought some figs yesterday as they are finally in season here... would love some great recipes for them...salads, entrees, apps...anything, Thanks!

Jodi

Laura_beau

Baked fig with honey & cinnamon- served with greek yoghurt. Good for breakfast or as a dessert.

or

Figgy bruscetta with warm figs, low fat mozarella and rocket (arugula) and plenty of black pepper & a drizzle of balsamic vinegar.

sjtreely

You can do an ingredient search on many sites and get numerous recipes. I like foodnetwork.com myself. A fig search brought up over 300 ideas. Have fun!

Elleinnz

Serves 4

Vinaigrette - makes 1 cups
250ml olive oil
1 small garlic clove, crushed
1/2 cup red wine vinegar
2 tsp Dijon mustard
1/2 tsp brown sugar
1/2 tsp salt
Freshly ground black pepper

4 figs
8 slices ham - Black Forest if available or Parma
1/2 cup walnuts, lightly toasted
200g blue cheese
3 cups of salad leaves, including Radicchio
Bread to serve

1 To make the vinaigrette - whisk the ingredients together and taste for seasoning. Store in an airtight jar until ready to use.

2 Slice the figs and arrange on a platter with the ham, greens, walnuts and blue cheese.

3 Drizzle with the red wine vinaigrette and serve with crusty bread.

Elleinnz

Sugar baked figs with orange syrup and cream (Obviously not a low calorie recipe - but verrrryyy yum)

I suppose you can use some greek yoghurt instead of the cream

Serves 4

Syrup
1/2 cup caster sugar
Zest and juice of one orange
1/4cup water

1 Tbs butter
8 figs
3 Tbs caster sugar
1/2 cup dessert wine
2 cardamom pods
1 cinnamon stick
Cream

1 To make the syrup, place the sugar, zest, juice and water into a small saucepan and boil. Stir to dissolve the sugar then let boil for approximately 15 minutes or until syrupy. Let cool.

2 Preheat the oven to 180C. Grease a baking dish with the butter. Roll the figs in caster sugar then arrange in the dish.

3 Pour over the wine and add the cardamom and cinnamon. Bake for 25 minutes. Serve the hot figs with the orange syrup and softly whipped cream.

joditenzer

these sound great! Going to use half for a snack, and the other for that salad