Fresh Figs

BBC good food site has luscious recipes , I like them very ripe raw

I had raw figs in Cyprus for breakfast, straight from the tree. Delicious with a little natural yoghurt.

My little fig tree sets fruits, but they drop off when still small and unripe.

Friends in Surrey have a huge very productive fig tree, they eat some ripe, make jams & chutneys with some and freeze some too! I don't think they have gone as far as making home made syrup of figs though......

Good with goats cheese.

Before I went low carb I used to layer sliced figs, cream and dark brown sugar and leave it in the fridge overnight.
For lunch today in a low carb special, I made a salad of leaves, toms, avocado, walnuts, blue cheese and figs from the garden.

I love figs. There is a good recipe for figs with goats cheese on a pastry base. High calories but absolutely delicious.

Black figs are the best - beautiful rich colour inside too. We have Turkish fig trees in our garden copious fruit but difficult to know when to pick as too early and not so much flavour and too late and the hornets and wasps have had a feast!

Whatever you decide to do with them, please don't send them to me

Thank you anyway.

I made a beautiful chutney with them one year when they were very cheap. It was in the Waitrose magazine
www.waitrose.com/home/recipes/recipe_directory/f/fig_chutney.html

jalima

I like most things but not figs!!

I love them just as they are ,delicious.
Jamie O has a recipe cooked with boneless loin of pork. Nice with Parma ham,in fact lots of ways.

Just peel and eat, delicious!

Sorry meant bite and eat.

Thanks all for your ideas
mamie I love the sound of figs cream and sugar,
but I have to lose some weight before the middle of September so I think that I should really go down the salad and Parma ham route.
However as my sister (her figs bush/tree) is a better cook than me I am going to suggest that she checks out stansgrans Waitrose link and the chutney recipes.
Ann If I'm lucky enough to receive any more figs then I'm thinking that a loin of pork a la Mr Oliver may be just right for a Sunday lunch.
jamila If not a fign I can share a cooking apple
Phoenix Homemade syrup of figs would have been my grandmother's first thought!

Thanks Gners for sharing.
I'm off now to check out the cooking apple thead.

Slice the figs, drizzle with a little honey and lemon juice, and bake in the oven for about 20 mins. Serve with ice cream or creme fraiche.

What a treat. You could always send them to me
Just eat with thick plain greek yogurt and honey. Mmmmm.

I am inundated with cooking apples, trying to give them away!
Thank you Cherrytree

Perhaps that's why I don't like figs, Syrup of Figs was one of mother's remedies

However, cherries are one of my favourite fruits if you have a tree laden with them
Off to the cooking apple thread now.

Love figs and so pleased we have a fig tree in our new house. Baked , then a dollop of cream or Greek yogurt and a tiny, tiny drizzle of honey. Sublime