This Chef is a guest from Israel for this twenty year old established restaurant. He said having learned to cook with the elder women and, this is suppose to be a "biblical" kinda of food made on the flames of gas stove... go figure!
Bob, I had the same thought at first, but it appears, he used some of it for the sauce in which it is bathing/cooking.
Igor, you could be right. Roxo de Valinhos is the most common and since it has that redish pulp... could be the BT unripe.
Well, after my little experiment here tonight (cooking my unripe ones) I am definately going to improve my fig cooking skills.