Description
Posted for zwt ii africa/middle east as taken from "avon's international cookbook"
figs grow well in arabia and are a popular dessert, plain or dressed up like this.
Ingredients
- Lemon
- Sugar
- Honey
- Clove
- Walnut Halves
- Fresh Figs
- Plain Yogurt
- Vanilla
- Walnuts
Instructions
- With a vegetable peeler, cut a thin strip of peel about 2 inches long from lemon
- Set aside
- Squeeze juice from lemon
- Add water to measure 1 / 2 cup
- Combine lemon peel strip, lemon juice mixture, sugar, honey and clove in a saucepan
- Bring to boiling
- Reduce heat
- Cook and stir till syrup is thickened and bubbly
- Remove from heat
- Discard clove and lemon peel
- Cool slightly
- Insert one walnut half into each fig
- Place in individual dessert dishes
- Stir together cooled syrup, yogurt, and vanilla
- Spoon over figs
- Cover
- Chill till serving time
- Sprinkle with chopped walnuts