Ronnie's Notes
Remember a couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I bought some fantastically delicious peaches at Costco? Well, this week I saw a boxful of fabulous-looking, velvety-skinned figs that were so picture perfect that I had to buy them.
Mostly we ate them out of hand. I cut some up for my morning yogurt. I ate one or two garnished with crumbled blue cheese.
The rest? I poached them, reduced the sauce until it was nice and thick, set the fruit up in a pretty plate, added a dab of whipped cream and a sprinkle of chopped toasted almonds and VOILA! a fancy dessert.
So easy.
Here’s the recipe:
Instructions
Combine the apricot nectar, water, honey, cinnamon stick and orange peel in a saucepan over medium-high heat.
Bring the liquid to a boil, reduce the heat to low and simmer for .
Add the figs and simmer for or until the figs are tender but not overly soft.
Remove the pan from the heat.
Remove the figs to a dish and let cool.
Remove and discard the cinnamon stick and orange peel from the pan.
Boil the liquid over high heat for or until syrupy.
Let cool.
Spoon some of the cooled syrup onto 6 dessert plates.
Cut the figs in half and place 4 halves on each of the plates.
Spoon a dollop of whipped cream on top of each fig half.
Scatter the nuts over the figs.