Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, fig spoon sweet. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Fig spoon sweet is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Fig spoon sweet is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
Cut a small ring at the bottom of the figs, not the stem side. Fig spoon sweet is a very special delight of amazing taste and aroma. The Fig from VASSILIKI NATURAL PRODUCTS is made of fresh, unripe figs, collected in early spring from wild fig trees.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook fig spoon sweet using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Fig spoon sweet:
- Prepare 50 figs
- Make ready 2 kg sugar
- Take almonds without the skins, as many as the figs (a few more don't matter)
- Take cloves, as many as the figs
- Take juice of one lemon
- Get 6 cups water
Spoon sweets are sweet preserves, served in a spoon as a gesture of hospitality in Albania, Greece, Cyprus, the Balkans, parts of the Middle East, and Russia. They can be made from almost any fruit, though sour and bitter fruits are especially prized. There are also spoon sweets produced without fruit. Fig spoon sweet has rich taste, strong aroma and is ideal for a healthy and balanced nutrition.
Instructions 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.
Spoon sweets have long shelf life and are maintained in room temperature. Spoon sweets are made all over Greece but some regions and islands are famous for their specialties. Ingredients 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 is one of the most popular summer fruits of the Greek countryside. It is quite nutritional as it is rich in vitamins A and C as well as in calcium, potassium and magnesium.
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