‘Tis the ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ and Slow Cooker Gingered Figs are cooked slowly in your Slow Cooker are a delicious way to enjoy the fruits of the season. Hopefully, we won’t have too many mists just yet, as summer seems to have returned for a few more days, however, I am looking for some fruitfulness as September’s Slow Cooker Challenge is cook with FRUIT in your slow cooker.
Your dish can be sweet or savoury as long as it contains some fruit. My recipe is a simple one, I love baked figs and thought it would be easy to pop them in the slow cooker and it worked really well.
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Gingered Figs
3 simple ingredients, cooked slowly in the Slow Cooker, served with Greek yogurt this is a delicious autumn dessert.
Ingredients
- 4 ripe figs
- 50 ml orange juice
- 4 tbsp Spiced Ginger Preserve or chopped preserved ginger
Instructions
- Cut the hard part of the stem from the top of the figs, then slice a cross into the top of each one, be careful not to cut all the way to the bottom or your figs will fall apart.
- Place the figs in the basin of the slow cooker, open out the sections of the fig a little and fill the space with a dessert spoon of Ginger Preserve.
- Pour the orange juice around the figs and cover with the lid.
- Bake on low for 2-3 hours.
- Remove the figs from the slow cooker to a serving dish, pour the juices into a pan and bring to a rapid boil, reducing the syrup by half, then pour this over the figs and chill in the fridge for at least an hour.
- Serve with Greek yogurt, drizzling the syrup over the figs and yogurt.
Nutrition
Calories: 74kcalCarbohydrates: 18gSodium: 2mgPotassium: 141mgFiber: 1gSugar: 16gVitamin A: 95IUVitamin C: 7.3mgCalcium: 18mgIron: 0.2mg
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The phrase ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ comes from John Keats’ poem ‘To Autumn’
Karen S Booth says
Now this is a month I should be able to cook to enter Janice! And, all due to the fact that I have fruit coming out of my ears! GREAT theme! Karen
Janice Pattie says
Looking forward to seeing what you make., Karen.
belleau kitchen says
oh those figs look superb! I made an apple and fig loaf with dried figs yesterday and am eating it now whilst reading this post so it feels a little bit like 'scratch n sniff'… I love it! xx
Janice Pattie says
Apple and fig loaf sounds good, Dom.
Choclette says
You had me at the words gingered figs Janice – they sound wonderful.
Janice Pattie says
I love both ingredients too, I guess you could improve with chocolate!
Keep Calm and Fanny On says
I saw the most amazing figs this weekend at Borough Market' wish I could've brought a tray or two home 😉
Janice Pattie says
Gosh that must have been very tempting.
Rebecca Subbiah says
this looks great never tried ginger and figs together sounds good
Janice Pattie says
It works for me, Rebecca.
Jacqueline Meldrum says
It's in The Food Blog Diary Janice 🙂
Janice Pattie says
Thanks Jac 🙂
Heidi Roberts says
I love figs – never thought of cooking them in a slow cooker!!
Stuart Vettese says
These look lovely – I'm thinking they would be really good around Christmas time with the ginger. I've just invested in a slow cooker, so shall be entering the challenge this month!!
Choclette says
Yes, to figs, yes to ginger and a big yes to this recipe. Sounds so good. Hoping we might get a few more figs off our tree this year, so you never know, I might just be able to make it!
Janice Pattie says
Oh what joy to have a fig tree, I hope you are rewarded with some lovely figs.