Fig recipes

How to make recipes with figs

Cooking with figs

In summer, the fig trees are filled with figs, which are their fruits, very sweet and aromatic. Figs should be eaten within a few days because they ripen quickly. Furthermore, their thin skin makes it difficult to market and transport, as it deteriorates easily.

Below are recipes that will help us enjoy figs for longer, for example, preserving them in the form of jam or as dried figs:

• Coated dried figs
• Dried fig cake
• Dried figs

Medieval recipe with figs

Fig burnia with rose petals is a recipe from the Middle Ages, first reported in the Llibre de Coch (the Book of Coch), a recipe book written in old Catalan.

This book describes the type of food of those times, which was more wild, spiced or perfumed, and where some ingredients such as rose petals were common, but which have currently fallen into disuse.

Ingredients for fig bread:

• 1 and a half kilos of dried figs
• ¾ of whole sugar
• 1 kilo of almonds
• 2 cloves
• 3 gr. of cinnamon
• 3 gr. of anise or aniseed

Preparation of fig bread:

• 

  Grind the almonds.

• Clean the figs well, removing the stems and chop them finely with a meat grinder.
• Add the sugar, cloves and cinnamon. Stir well.
• Blanch the almonds with very hot water and peel them well. Chop them in half.
• Add the almonds to the paste.
• Put the paste in a mould and press it down until it is well compacted.

FIGS WITH ALMONDS, GRAPES AND LEMON

Ingredients for four people:

• 500 g muscatel grapes
• 1000 g fresh figs
• 100 g peeled and raw almonds
• 1 lemon

Preparation

• Juice the grapes and remove the skins and seeds.
• Cut the fresh figs into four pieces each.
• Place the figs in a bowl and add the grape juice. Stir well.
• Squeeze the lemon and add a teaspoon of lemon juice to the mixture.
• Divide the almonds and add them to the mixture.

How to serve it

• Serve as a first course.

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