Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, fig spoon sweet. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Fig spoon sweet is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Fig spoon sweet is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
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.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook fig spoon sweet using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Fig spoon sweet:
- Make ready 50 figs
- Get 2 kg sugar
- Make ready almonds without the skins, as many as the figs (a few more don't matter)
- Take cloves, as many as the figs
- Make ready juice of one lemon
- Prepare 6 cups water
Fig spoon sweet is a very special delight of amazing taste and aroma. Handmade Spoon Sweet Fig by Vana's. Spoon sweets are a traditional Greek sweet that was originally used as a way to preserve the harvest. The spoon sweet (fruit preserve) is made when the figs are still green and unripe whereas the jam is made when figs are ripe. #Grape fruit spoon sweet (γλυκό κουταλιού σταφύλι).
Steps 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 are as typical of #greek cooking, as feta and olive oil, and used to be the pinnacle of greek hospitality, always available for guests that. 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. On fig spoon sweet preparation in the context of the resort's operation according to the We do local standard. While classified as preserves, spoon sweets are different from jams and marmalades.
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