Figs for 1001 Nights

Name: Figs for 1001 Nights
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Istanbul & Anatolian Heart
Ingredients: 12 black figs; 50 g unsalted butter; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; 1 tbsp vanilla sugar; 1.5 tsp rose water; 1.5 tsp orange flower water; 500 g mascarpone cheese; 100 g slivered pistachios

Grilled black figs, mascarpone cheese and slivered pistachios, scented with cinnamon and rose water, a Turkish dessert.

10 min · Serves 6 · Easy

Method

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Time: Prep 5 min · Cook 5 min · 10 min total
Difficulty: easy

1
Preheat a grill or oven to the fiercest it will go. Quarter the figs, taking care not to cut all the way through to the bottom, so that they open like flowers, and sit them, in a heatproof dish into which they fit snugly.
2
Melt the butter in a small saucepan, then add the cinnamon, sugar and flower waters. Stir to combine and pour some into the figs, save a small amount for serving.
3
Blister under the hot grill or bake in the oven for a few minutes and then serve; it's that quick. Just give each person a couple of figs on a side-plate.
4
Splodge alongside some mascarpone over which you drizzle some of the conker-dark syrup, then sprinkle over some of pistachio. MMMM!