Fig in a blanket: sweet, savory, earthy, and easy to make
As a blogging goes, I try not to repeat myself. (If only I could apply this to real life.) While no one likes reruns, remakes are another story. So if you’ll indulge me, I’d like to request a mulligan, a recipe do-over.
I first wrote about my Cheesy Fig Bombs in 2008. With a new crop of figs before me and some experience behind me, the recipe deserves a re-visit and surely some better photography.
Homegrown figs: Negronne (Violette du Bordeaux) Fig and Dessert King Fig
RECIPE: Figs in a Blanket
Figs stuffed with goat cheese, wrapped in bacon
Ingredients:
- Fresh figs
- goat cheese, chevre
- thin-sliced bacon
Preparation:
- Trim fig’s stem (remove any woody part)
- Slice fig in half
- Place a dollop of goat cheese on sliced side of fig
- Gently press cheese into fig
- Place figs on baking sheet or ovenproof pan
Preparation, cont’d:
- Cut a bacon strip in half.
- Place bacon over cheese and fig.
- Trim bacon so it overhangs fig.
- Bacon shrinks, so it should touch cooking surface, like an oversized blanket.
Preparation, cont’d:
- Set oven to broil setting.
- Place figs two rack levels below broiler.
- You want a slow broil
- Broil about 10 minutes, keep an eye on them throughout.
- Bacon will shrink, crisp up a bit, and encapsulate the fig.
- Goat cheese will melt and the fig will carmelize a bit.
- Remove when bacon is half chewy, half crispy. (See first photo.)
- Let cool to touch before eating
- Devour at will.
As you can see from the response above, this recipe is a crowd pleaser–disappearing within minutes of leaving the oven.
Related: Fig trees I grow, photos and updates
- Bayernfeige Violetta Fig
- Dessert King Fig
- Negronne (a.k.a.Violette du Bordeaux) Fig
- Peter’s Honey Fig
- How to tell when a fig is ripe.
24 responses so far ↓
1 renae // Aug 31, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Bacon as a blanket. I loooooove it. Also, I just read that figs are really flowers turned into themselves and am wondering if that’s true. Do you know?
2 Tina // Aug 31, 2010 at 9:53 pm
Tom,
Oh my those look lovely. We had some wonderful Figs in Turkey and in Cyprus which are one of my favorites. I of course think there is no other fruit like them since the taste is so unique.
I just think you are the best when it comes to the
food creations. Figs , they make my Dad happy too. Hope you are doing well, xoxo
3 Sarah Galvin (All Our Fingers in the Pie) // Sep 1, 2010 at 2:00 am
I just bought some black Mission figs today. You are so lucky to have them in your garden. I want to make a meal ‘ender’ with them and hope they will be good roasted with a little gorgonzola and drizzled with honey and topped with chopped pistachios. Great play on words! Yours must be wonderful!
4 Tom // Sep 1, 2010 at 2:52 am
Renae, yep fig ‘flowers’ are really in the inside cavity of the fig. And you should make these for your bacon-loving daughter.
Tina, I believe I owe you a pie-making lesson and then I can hear all about the trip to Cyprus.
Sarah, you’ve got me drooling. That fig recipe sounds exceptional. It’s on my menu, this weekend.
5 Sandy // Sep 1, 2010 at 3:33 am
Tom, those look great! I have a young Brown Turkey fig tree with some small fruit on it. Do you think I have any chance that they’ll ripen this year?
6 Tom // Sep 1, 2010 at 3:48 am
Sandy, I have a (Vern’s) Brown Turkey fig. It’s a good variety for the Pacific NW, and I really like how it tastes as I just picked my first one. I’ll post a pic shortly. I have one fig that ripens around October 7th, so it’s possible your Brown Turkey still has time.
Don’t be disappointed if it doesn’t ripen this year. Young trees are fickle and not what their mature tree selves are all about. Like some folks, trees get better with age.
7 Sustainable Eats // Sep 1, 2010 at 4:13 am
I hope they do! I’ve had my violetta du bordeaux and dessert king for 2 years now and gotten 1 fig each tree in that time period.
I can’t wait to try some fig recipes but it looks like it will have to wait another year…
8 rowena // Sep 1, 2010 at 6:34 am
As far as reruns and remakes go, you can never have enough of a good thing. I could watch Married With Children over, and over, and over…
Jokes aside, I’ve done something figgy similar with mascarpone and pancetta…this is totally wicked delicious food. I’m envious that you have 2 types of fruit!
9 Thomas // Sep 1, 2010 at 12:58 pm
That looks soooo unbelievably good, Tom! Just my kind of snack.
10 Pam // Sep 1, 2010 at 4:16 pm
I have everything on hand to make this–except FIGS! I do believe Boz and Gracie would have made lovely dinner companions for Julia Child!
11 June@Four Green Acres // Sep 2, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Now that is some figgy (and piggy) bliss! Inspired! Unfortunately, I will have to purchase figs to indulge. But I will. Oh, yes, I will.
12 Curbstone Valley Farm // Sep 2, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Mmmm…figs…cheese…bacon…what’s not to like? Sounds divine! Besides, Boz and Gracie gave it ‘two tongues up!’ Looks like a rave review to me
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14 Sandy // Sep 4, 2010 at 12:21 am
Thanks Tom! I don’t have high expectations for the tree this year since it is young (I learned that lesson from my other fruit trees). Here’s hoping the couple of fruit that appear to be progressing nicely make it!
15 Stacey Snacks // Sep 4, 2010 at 12:54 am
Tom,
This is a gorgeous appetizer. I am love with figs, as you may already know!
I have never tried these varities. I only use mission or kadota.
I am grilling figs w/ Serrano ham and basil for our Labor Day party.
Have a great holiday weekend!
Stacey
16 tasteofbeirut // Sep 4, 2010 at 4:49 am
Tom
This is brilliant! For years, all I knew was the French and Italian wrapping melons and figs with prosciutto; eating it cold with porto. This is much tastier and can be eaten warm and melting! Yum!
17 Celina // Sep 5, 2010 at 1:50 am
We made these the very next night . . . and the night after that
Our Negronne tree has had it’s best year yet!
18 Eileen @ Passions to Pastry // Sep 6, 2010 at 3:06 am
I am making this tomorrow! I just found some beautiful figs, my first of the summer. Thanks Tom!
19 Conor @ HoldtheBeef // Sep 7, 2010 at 7:11 am
Such a good name!
Am terribly jealous of your fig crop, and I think I could eat these by the dozen.
20 Sasha // Sep 7, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Can I blame you? I just finished making and eating these, and I do believe that I’m in love and can already tell it isn’t going to do my waistline any favors.
21 Debra // Sep 10, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Figs–I’m so jealous. I only got a few local ones from friends this year. I dehydrate them halfway and they are like candy. The pair of bull dogs are too cute for words! Do they ever steal food or are they too short to reach very high?
22 Patti // Aug 14, 2011 at 9:39 am
Just tried the figs in a blanket recipe and it was great! I was searching for recipes for the first figs off my very first fig tree and I stumbled upon Tall Clover. Beautiful site- I’ll be back!
23 Tom // Aug 14, 2011 at 7:48 pm
Thanks Patti, welcome!
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