Figs For 1001 Nights

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 12 black figs
• 50 g unsalted butter
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons rose water (this is optional, i'm not a big fan so i leave it out, but it does add to the overall flavour) (optional)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons orange flower water
• 500 g mascarpone cheese
• 100 g slivered pistachios

Recipe

• 1 preheat a grill or oven to the fiercest it will go.
• 2 quarter the figs, taking care not to cut all the way through to the bottom, so that they open like flowers, and sit them, in a heatproof dish into which they fit snugly.
• 3 melt the butter in a small saucepan, then add the cinnamon, sugar and flower waters. stir to combine and pour some into the figs, save a small amount for serving.
• 4 blister under the hot grill or bake in the oven for a few minutes and then serve; it's that quick. just give each person a couple of figs on a side-plate.
• 5 splodge alongside some mascarpone over which you drizzle some of the conker-dark syrup, then sprinkle over some of pistachio. mmmm!