Hi there,
Today I am going to share with you two recipes using fig preserves. A few years ago, my husband planted two fig trees. (We live in New Jersey, so you can see I married an optimist). Well, to my delight, the trees produced an abundance of figs. Like any other fresh fruit, the harvest comes all at once. So I decided to make preserves and freeze the preserves to keep the sunshine to warm us for the long winter ahead.
Fig Preserves
Ingredients
- 7 cups of figs
- 3 cups of sugar
- juice of 1 lemon
- 1/8 tsp of pepper flakes
Directions
- Combine the whole figs, sugar, and lemon juice in a large saucepan.
- Cook and stir until the sugar is dissolved and the juice is as thick as desired
- Ladle into 1/2 cup containers and freeze
Fig Glazed Bake Salmon
Ingredients:
- 1 container of fig preserves
- 2 teaspoons of dijon mustard
- 2 salmon filets
- sprig of thyme
- juice of half a lemon
- 1 soaked cedar plank
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 375 or light outside grill to medium
- Place salmon filets on the plank
- slice 1/2 way through the salmon filets and place sprig of thyme in the cut
- squeeze the lemon juice over the filets
- combine the mustard with the preserves and smear on the salmon filets
- grill or roast to desired degree of doneness
Special note:
I completely get that not everyone has fig preserves hanging around in their freezer. Don’t hesitate to buy fig preserves and stir in a little bit of heat to the jar. The measurement for supermarket fig preserves would be 1/2 cup.
When I cook on the plank in the oven, I place the plank on a piece of aluminum foil. The kitchen will smell a bit of cedar which I don’t find offensive but if you do, the exhaust fan will eliminate the odor swiftly.
3 responses to “FIGS, FABULOUS FIGS – two easy recipes”
We LOVE figs! Thank you for sharing these delicious-looking recipes!
I’m a huge fan of fig preserves! Sounds delicious Bernadette! 💕😊
I love figs too but have never heard of fig preserves. What a great idea!