Jamie Cooks Christmas
4 hrs 5 mins
Super easy
serves 8
About the recipe
This baked figs recipe is a festive favourite of mine – incredible on bruschetta with goat's cheese.
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Ingredients
BAKED FIGS
24 figs
2 clementines
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 tablespoons caster sugar
FIG BRUSCHETTA
1 loaf of rustic bread
hard or soft goat’s cheese
a handful of walnuts
runny honey
FIGS IN HONEY
1 large jar runny honey
Top Tip
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.
Method
- Preheat your oven to 110ºC/225ºF/gas ¼. Halve the figs and lay them cut-side up on a baking tray.
- Using a fine grater, zest your clementines over the figs then dust the figs with a sprinkling of cinnamon and 1 teaspoon of sugar.
- 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 at Christmas is to turn them into a bit of a gift by popping a stack of them in a sterilised 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.
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