These Honey Roasted Figs make a simple yet delicious dessert, especially when paired with mascarpone or Greek yogurt or vanilla ice cream. The fresh figs are baked in the oven with butter, honey, cinnamon, pistachio, and a little lemon zest. They are tender, yielding and wonderfully fragrant. The perfect recipe for using up this season's fresh figs! And a wonderful summer dessert to serve to your friends and family.
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Ingredients
8fresh figs- see note 1
3tablespoonbutter
¼cuprunny honey
¼teaspoonground cinnamon
1lemon
2tablespoonshelled pistachio nuts
mascarpone/creme fraiche/greek yogurt to serve
Instructions
Pre-heat the oven to 400ºF/200ºC
Cut a cross in the top of each fig, ensuring that you don't go more than half way down the fig. Use your fingers to push the fig open like a flower (See note 2)
Place the the figs in a baking dish and add around a teaspoon of butter to each fig.
Drizzle over the honey ensuring some falls over and into each fig.
Sprinkle over the cinnamon.
Grate a little lemon zest over each fig.
Sprinkle the pistachios around the figs.
Roast for 7-10 minutes until the figs have softened and the butter has melted into the honey.
Serve warm with your chosen creamy element.
Notes
You want to pick ripe figs or ones that are just a little under-ripe. The variety doesn't matter too much, although the green or black ones look the most beautiful when roasted.
See the bulk of the post for detailed pictures of this process.