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CIMG2020.JPG CIMG2022.JPG Out of the oven. turn it of. Add figs, cover for a min or so... ah....super delicious way to use those unripen figs... 


I will take some, can you add some Coca Cola with lots of ice, Thank You.

Looks delicious!

I'm hungry!

thats just ssoooooo not right.
i am trying to lose some weight and you are not helping. ;-))

Yes. I think I'm late as usual for a meal but does indeed look delicious.

Can I place my order?


Looks great Grasa!

Recipe?

Im just thankful that you can't send the smell/fragrance over the internet or pics like this would make me bite my monitor screen :)

Yummy!

Lord have mercy, Grasa is bringing on the food porno! Yum yum yum!!!

Grasa, looks yummy. Could you, please, deliver it to Dallas, TX.

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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?

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Grasa, since your previous post on this topic  I've tried it twice and have enjoyed the results. Thanks for introducing us to green fried figs!

Hi Grasa,
I tried freezing them and ate some of them instead of ice-cream. The taste was as when fresh with the refreshing of the ice.
So freezing them works !
I froze them chopped in 4, raw, and without the stem .

Grasa, Delicious looking plate!  Thanks for the recipe!

Will try it today with my slightly unripe figs.  This time of year the figs are still swelling and getting sweet but they lack some of the taste and skin colour. 

Up to now I have been freezing them for winter usage in smoothies.  They add a nice taste and texture in a smoothie mixed with other fruits like bananas, canned peaches, frozen berries...

Mmmmmm

Could use a cutting from that dish

Hmmm, that's funny...I wasn't hungry a minute ago! ;-)

Grasa -- have you ever tried to sear the fig halves on the hot pan?  I tried that on a couple of figs last season -- the heat caramelized the sugar in the fig and softened it up a bit.  Fresh figs are my favorite, but hot and caramelized was nice, too...
Jim

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Pic of tonight's oven chicken... only spice was a little garlic and black pepper...  the whole fig in after it was done, only to soak up the steam was perfect.  Wish you could smell it.  I will never complain of my figs not ripening.

Grasa,
  Does the steaming just soften the figs, or does it bring out a little more sweetness too?
Cheers,
Jim

Grasa,
you just might 've started a new way to use figs in cooking for Chefs as well, wait till they read this post ;)
Seriously delicious!

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