FIG PIE

Ingredients depend on what looks good in the cupboard or the shops..

  • 4 tablespoon is melted butter

  • 1 cup of slivered almonds

  • 3/4 cup flaked almonds

  • 1 cup brown sugar

  • 1/2 cup plain flour

  • 1/4 teaspoon baking powder

  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

  • pinch salt

  • 1/4 teaspoon almond essence

  • seeds from a vanilla bean (could use vanilla essence)

  • handful of glace ginger (could use other glace fruit)  chopped to smallish pieces

  • decent dash of maple syrup

 

Put all the above into a mix-master & let it whiz around for a minute, 

add 3-4 eggs, that have been beaten, into the mix-master & whiz for another 30 seconds or so

Add in 1/2 punnet of blueberries into the mix

Pour mixture into a greased baking tin

 

Take 12 or so beautiful ripe figs and cut off the stems

slice figs in half & put face up on the top mixture in the tin

I like to thrown on a few more blueberries at this point 

pour on a few swirls of maple syrup generally across the top, try to get the maple syrup onto the open figs

the fruit will likely sink a bit into the top of the pie, but don't worry

 

Whack into a preheated oven at 160 degrees - depending on how hot your oven is could be 20-30 minutes

 

Best served with Greek Yoghurt + a final swirl of maple syrup

 

fig pie