If you have a fig picked up a bit too early, don't eat it raw. Cook it. I learned that those almost ripe are best for cooking. They cannot be stirred or they became a moosh... more like sauce, but I like it this way. I tried doing with salmon, cod, and now chicken.. worked each time.
In a large skillet do your main dish (meet or vegetables) when almost done, remove from the pot, or move it to the side.
Add a bit more olive oil, chopped onions and give a min, add ( sliced or chopped) figs on top of the onions. pinch of salt and pepper. You will start seeing the sugar release and the figgy caramel smell is just incredible. Cover it without stirring for a 1/2 min. uncover, the fig swet. You may turn them very gently and give another 1/2 min. toss the meet back in...
Last night, after I removed the chicken from the skillet, I tossed the cooked noodles in the skillet... and the flavor left on the skillet passed onto the noodles.
It was divine!
I really like this new method of using the figs, as with the rains we had, the figs are swelling up but not ripening as they usually do... this is a method to not waste any of it. I am going to freeze them chopped and see if they work for later time.
Has anyone frozen them?