Staring at the figs and bacon, waiting for them to tell me how they wanted to be eaten, it clicked! "Oh, a salad? You want to go on top of a salad? Booooring, but fine, if that's what you want!." Well, I wasn't about to just throw sliced figs onto a salad, that would show no effort. So, I did the next best thing...FRIED THEM!
Figs fried in coconut oil and honey, paired with bacon on top of a bed of lettuce is incredibly simple to make, yet feels kinda sophisticated.
YIELDS APPROX 4 SALADS
INGREDIENTS:
- 4 figs, sliced into medallions (you choose thickness)
- 3 tsp coconut oil
- 3 tsp raw honey
- 8 slices bacon, cooked to your liking and crumbled
- 8 c. spinach, washed and chopped
- olive oil (optional)
PREPARATION:
- In a medium frying pan over medium heat, combine coconut oil and honey and blend together, take about 2 minutes
- Add the figs to the coconut oil mixture and cook for 5 minutes, then flip and cook the other side
- Remove from pan and place on parchment paper (not paper towels)
- Plate the spinach, crumble 2 slices of bacon on top of each serving and add honeyed figs
- Drizzle with some olive oil if you like, but the oil on the figs and bacon end up working just fine for me
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Very adventurous!
ReplyDeleteFigs are by far my absolute thing to eat. If someone handed me a basket of them I would eat them all fresh! But if you have any spare figs, something I made a while back when I had loads of them was baked figs. In the bottom of the fig, cut a little slit, and put a little knob of butter inside the fig. Wrap the fig in prosciutto. Bake until the fig is soft and the prosciutto is cooked to your liking. Then serve with a piece of good blue cheese, and a great bottle of red :)
ReplyDeleteBlue cheese...wine...ON IT! ;)
ReplyDeleteI've never had fresh figs before but this looks lovely!
ReplyDeleteMe neither, that's why I was so torn as to what to do with them. I suppose having them as nature intended would have been a great start, but fried worked out beautifully ;)
ReplyDeleteI used to enjoy fresh figs when I was young. We had a fig tree. These looks great. Thank you for sharing at the Thursday Favorite Things Blog hop. xo
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