Okay. I'm counting my figs before they hatch. But I'm hoping (and knocking on wood) to have figs this summer...so tell me, what are your favorite fig recipes? I was just sent this by a friend who said it was amazing!

My favorite is simple.  Halve, dip in butter, and grill.  Yumm!

Suzi

oooh, that sounds good and I'd actually never thought to butter them! That's awesome. I also made a great recipe last year - halved, topped with ricotta mixed with honey, and put under the broiler. Mmmmm.....

You have to make yourself a fig pizza this year.

Oooh my....what else do you put on it? What kind of cheese? Any herbs? That sounds amazing!!!

i prefer them raw. tried them medium rare but...

This year I want to make the baklava recipe with figs and pistachios.

It's pretty simple. Arugula, prosciutto, sautéed onions, mozzarella.

Here's a couple more pictures.

This is also a good recipe. http://www.valleyfig.com/content/fabulous-fig-bars

It uses dried figs.

Wow, that pizza looks amazing, the wife would love that. Now I have an excuse to grow more figs!

Thanks, Art. Downloaded that  one.

Tarts out of figs are very good

http://www.food.com/recipe/raspberry-fig-crostata-336505

I use this recipe but I do not add "lattice strips" I like it without because it looks better. I love figs and raspberries in desserts. The raspberries add a "fruity" element and plus I have about 5 pounds of fresh raspberries a day from my bush

Hey Ed,
 Do you use red or black raspberries? I grow both and am going to try this recipe.

The most incredible thing you will ever taste is very simple to make:

slice fresh figs into half- enough so that the halves fill a 1 cup measuring cup heaping full
Melt 2-3 tablespoons of salted, real butter in a frying pan
put fresh fig halves with flat, cut side down flat onto frying pan
pour 3 tablespoons of fresh, light honey over figs and butter.
cook slowly so that honey and butter melt together and bubble, cook for about 5-8 minutes
Figs will get very soft. Seeds and some pulp will break down and mix with honey and butter, and remainder of fig halves will be very soft

Take off the stove and allow to cool slightly.  You then have 2 wonderful choices:

pour fig, honey, butter mixture and cooked fig halves over ice cream (high end vanilla is my favorite)
OR...place 3-4 whole figs, round side up onto small plate.  The centers will have dissolved away into honey/butter mixture. Fill that hollow area in each fig with the fig/honey/butter syrup and serve, perhaps with a sweet cookie/cracker on the side

enjoy!

Kevin

Thank you,  Alan. I downloaded those, too!

Hi Jujigirl,
As long as they are fully ripe, raw is the best way to eat a fig - I should mention that I haven't been overcrowded with my harvests for now .
When the figs had a bad time getting ripe, then ok cook them .
With my end of season figs, I tried last year with "black pudding/sausage" in olive oil . Just cut in 2 the figs and cooked them at the same time and for the same duration, with an apple cut in cubes .
The sausage's juice/taste would mix with the fig's and apple's juice/taste . It was a good try.

I will try the freezing this year - if I have a decent harvest ... I heard of it from this forum ... And I will try making jam as well for conservation for later snaking.

great thread. i luv these recipies. you guys are quite inventive.

For us we enjoy them "as picked" because the flavors are so different than what we were accustomed to having with other figs.

We did not have a great number of figs last year so Im sure as our trees mature and produce more figs we will use them in salads, stuff them with cheese, wrap them with prosciutto etc.

Stuffed with feta cheese, wrapped with bacon and grilled till the bacon is crispy.

Alanmercieca, my older fig tree got toast in February 2012 - she was 10 yo.
My actual older tree is 8 yo but she got hard damages in 2012, but has recovered by now. The problem was the spring in 2013 never came and we swapped the winter for summer.
So my fig trees are having a bad time - or at least they are thoroughly tested for cold and freshness hardiness.
Most of my trees are 3-4 yo this year - except for the last 5 or 10 acquisitions- so this is the year for a real harvest with brebas ... Let's hope the spring this year will be a normal one. For now, this spring is once more a bit fresh ... I checked my BT this evening, and she has got 2 new born brebas that turned yellow because of the fresh air ... and of the wind .
The bigger producer last year was my 8yo from the strain "unknown from the Italian".

Art, sorry I'm replying so late, i just saw this, I use red raspberries, but it wouldn't really matter, they taste same to me. I love figs and berries in desserts.

Has anyone tried making the fig version of vin cotto?