Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, fig spoon sweet. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
It uses unripe figs, and the great thing about unripe figs is that the birds won't have eaten them Lulu, figs are my favourite spoon sweet. I haven't made them for years because I can't get any unripe figs. Spoon sweets are a traditional Greek sweet that was originally used as a way to preserve the harvest.
Fig spoon sweet is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Fig spoon sweet is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook fig spoon sweet using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Fig spoon sweet:
- Take 50 figs
- Take 2 kg sugar
- Get almonds without the skins, as many as the figs (a few more don't matter)
- Make ready cloves, as many as the figs
- Make ready juice of one lemon
- Take 6 cups water
They can be made from almost any fruit, though sour and bitter fruits are especially prized. There are also spoon sweets produced without fruit. The spoon sweet (fruit preserve) is made when the figs are still green and unripe whereas the jam is made when figs are ripe. Fig preserve is usually made with unripe whole figs.
Steps to make Fig spoon sweet:
- Cut a small ring at the bottom of the figs, not the stem side, circularly with a knife and punch the figs with a fork or a skewer in 2-3 places.
- Boil the figs in a pot for 10 minutes in plenty of water.
- Drain them, rinse and drain again. They should have softened a bit by now. Insert an almond from underneath each fig (the side that you previously cut). Stud them on the side with a clove, as well.
- Put the cups of water, the sugar and figs in a pot to make the syrup as well as boil the figs. Skim off the foam if necessary.
- Boil for only 15 minutes and leave the figs in the syrup overnight.
- The following day boil the sweet until the syrup thickens and towards the end add the lemon juice.
- Finally, store in sterilized jars, while still hot.
In this recipe I use ripe figs cut in halves. "Glyko koutaliou" which means spoon sweet is a traditional homemade sweet fruit preserve (it is made even. While classified as preserves, spoon sweets are different from jams and marmalades. Spoon sweets are made all over Greece but some regions and islands are famous for their specialties. These conserves are known as 'spoon sweets' in Greece (glyko tou koutaliou) traditionally served to The fig was crunchy and sweet, the syrup was just perfect. The jars arrived the next day and they.
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