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jamie's baked figs

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You should have no problem getting nice figs at this time of year and they’re wonderful to make in so many ways so when you see them, buy them up! Here’s one really gorgeous way to have them. I promise you won’t get bored of these; there are so many lovely ways of using them up. Personally, I like to make a sort of bruschetta with them or put them out on a platter with some nice cheese. As it’s Christmas and your kitchen is probably well-stocked, you’ll hopefully have the ingredients for the bruschetta on hand already. If not, you can always improvise with whatever you’ve got in the fridge.

Preheat your oven to 110ºC/ 225ºF/ gas ¼. Lay your figs, cut-side up, in a baking tray. Using a fine grater, zest your clementines over the figs then dust the figs with a sprinkling of cinnamon and a teaspoon of sugar. My flavored sugar is also great for this so if you’ve made a batch of that, feel free to use that instead.

Pop the figs in the oven to bake for 4 hours, checking on them every hour or so. When they come out of the oven you’ll have semi-dehydrated figs, which will be a bit like wine gums.

Fig bruschetta
Get yourself a few slices of nice warm bread, crumble over some lumps of cheese, and a few pieces of walnut then put a few fig halves and a drizzle of runny honey over the top to finish it off. I think the combination of salty goat’s cheese with these figs and a bit of honey is absolute heaven.

Figs in honey
You’ll be able to put any leftover figs to good use in all sorts of ways. A really nice way of using them up Christmas is to turn them into a bit of a gift by popping a stack of them in a sterilized jar, covering them completely with honey then sealing the jar with an airtight lid. They’ll be beautiful as part of a cheese platter, baked in a tart, a sticky toffee pud, or even thrown into a roasting tray with some pork or other meat for a bit of added sweetness. Give them to your mates when you go round to theirs for dinner. They’ll love getting something unique, especially when you explain all the different things they can do with them.

ingredients

For the baked figs
• 24 figs, halved
• 2 clementines
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons caster sugar

For the fig bruschetta
• 1 loaf of rustic bread, sliced
• hard or soft goat’s cheese
• a handful of walnuts
runny honey

To store
• 1 large jar runny honey

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1. by anna on Wed 26 Oct 2011 @ 03:45

Hi Jamie, I have a function that i'm cooking dessert for. I am using up my figs, my function is 2 weeks away. If I simmer my figs in wine and honey, will they last in the fridge to serve in two weeks. I am assuming that the wine will preserve them but not so sure, I am cooking for 70 people and also making your pralene semi freddo to go with them!! A

2. by jeanette on Wed 15 Jun 2011 @ 14:56

Hello Jamie, well I must amit im a fan and always cooking I have just made the figs and as I live in Spain I have four fig trees have just done the fig recipe going to put them in jars with the honey can you tell me how long they will they last ? From Jeanette Alhaurin el Granda Spain

3. by jeanette on Wed 15 Jun 2011 @ 14:30

Hi Jamie, I live in Spain and have four fig trees I have just made recipe and will pack them in jars can you tell me how long they will legards to you are your family Jeanette

4. by Ingles on Fri 24 Dec 2010 @ 21:23

Juat baked the figs and they really weren't that good in taste or texture. Waste of yummy figs!

5. by Rachel on Mon 31 Aug 2009 @ 18:38

I'm thrilled with the figs in honey recipe as a way of using surplus figs, but may I suggest that you grow rather than buy your figs. We have always had a fig tree in our garden, ( brown Turkey variety). It has no special treatment and is free standing (NOT in a sunny corner against a wall). This year I have counted the crop and to date we have had 56 ripe figs from it and there are more to come. By the way I don't live in the warm south but in Norfolk where the wind comes straight from Siberia!

6. by IKEY on Sun 22 Mar 2009 @ 08:34

I JUST BAKED THE CHOCOLATE BUSCUITS WITH SOFT CHOCOLATE CENTRES. AND MY KIDS LOVE THEM. THEY WANT THEM FOR BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND SUPPER. I NEVER HAD SOMETHING SO GOD IN YEARS. WAS SUPPOSE TO CUT DOWN ON CHOCOLATE, BUT AFTER THOSE BUSCUITS, I DONT THINK ITS GOING TO BE EASY. LOVE YOUR FOOD JME.........

7. by redi on Mon 02 Feb 2009 @ 08:39

jamie, i don't know if you will ever see this. But i am very curious. What exactly do you like to eat? If someone were to make your fave meal, what would that be like?

8. by Emma on Thu 08 Jan 2009 @ 11:31

hiya jamie,
how are you,
i always watch you cook lol i am going to try and make something of the website lol but i don't know if i will be able to do them better than you hehe.....

from Emma in Leicester

9. by richard @hog house on Wed 24 Dec 2008 @ 10:50

i cant get figs any where,in Helston sad state of affairs,

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