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| A heap of recent figs picked from two timber in my backyard. |
“You’d higher dig up some fig recipes,” mentioned Ben, as he dumped a basketful of recent figs on my kitchen counter. Most years I’d watch subject rats and blackbirds darting among the many broad fig leaves, nibbling and pecking on the ripe fruit. I gladly accepted baggage of figs from mates’ gardens.
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| The birds missed these figs. |
This 12 months, there are sufficient figs from the 2 gnarly fig timber on our property for us and for the rats and birds. Maybe the one profit of significant drought is that the figs are each plentiful and particularly candy.
Ought to you might have the great fortune to be loaded with recent figs, verify on the finish of this submit for hyperlinks to extra recipes. To this point, I’ve made fig salad, fig BBQ sauce and, right here, a fig mousse, so candy it requires no further sugar.
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| Luscious, creamy fig mousse, simple to make. |
Fig Mousse
Espuma de Higos
Figs don’t must be peeled for this recipe.
Serves 6.
1 ½ kilos recent figs
½ teaspoon grated lemon zest
1/3 cup recent lemon juice
½ cup cream cheese, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chilled whipping cream
2 tablespoons blanched almond halves
1 teaspoon olive oil
½ teaspoon brown sugar
Figs, to garnish (optionally available)
Wash the figs and snip off stems. Reduce the figs in half and place them in a blender or meals processor with the lemon zest and juice. Mix till coarsely chopped. Add the softened cream cheese and mix till it’s clean and mixed with the figs. Add the vanilla. Scrape the figs right into a mixing bowl.
Utilizing chilled beaters and chilled bowl, whip the cream till it holds tender peaks. Fold the whipped cream into the fig combination. Spoon the fig mousse combination into six dessert cups.
Toast the almonds with the oil in a small skillet. When they’re golden, add the brown sugar and warmth, stirring, till the sugar melts. Take away from warmth and scrape the almonds onto a plate to chill. Scatter the almonds on prime of the cups of mousse.
Chill the mousse no less than 2 hours. Serve the mousse chilly garnished with quartered figs, if desired.
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| My neighbor, Karine, one other fan of figs. |
Extra recipes with recent figs:
