Some combinations are too good to get tired of. Or actually there's no chance to get tired of it when sweet ripe figs are only on sale here for a short time. Compared to those figs found in places where they grow - dripping with sticky sweet juice - are the ones we get here quite modest creatures, but still tasty and nice. For the last few days, different lots of figs have been available in all bigger shops, and of course at markets. When you buy figs, it's useful to get a bit touchy - the right ripe figs is soft enough and bouncy. And the more purple, the better.
Figs should be eaten on their own as well, anyway. Paired with good cheese, a wonderful combination is born. In this simple dish, figs and goats cheese are put together. It's a combination that's hard to saturate with. It's so perfectly tasty! The dish itself is silly simple.
How to prepare?
First, pick out some soft and ripe figs. Wash the figs and remove the woodier tip of the fig and make a cross cut in the dig. You can nicely plant goats cheese in the cross cut. I used soft goats cheese with honey that's sold in Rimi stores - it goes extremely well with the fig thanks to its savoury-salty flavour. Grind a little bit of black pepper on the digs, add a few pieces of thyme, and trickle a bit of olive oil on top.
Leave underneath the grill in the oven for about 7-10 minutes. I use maximum temperature, but that means you shouldn't go too far from the oven. Keep an eye on it and when the cheese starts to get brown, take the figs out. Now you've only got to finish them with honey. Since some juice will come out of the figs during cooking, you can mix thicker honey with hot fig juice. This little trick gives you a lovely little sauce to trickle oven baked figs with.
Explore Tuuli Mathisen's other recipes in her wonderful blog "Ise tehtud, hästi tehtud".
Mõned kooslused on liiga head, et nendest väsida. Või õigupoolest puudub võimalus väsida, kui vaid lühikeseks ajaks aastast ilmuvad meile müügile täisküpsed magusad mesised viigimarjad. Võrreldes muidugi nende isenditega, mida saab maitsta nende kasvukohtades, kus viigimarjad lausa nõretavad kleepuvast mahlast, on meil saadaolevad viljad üsna tagasihoidlikud tegelased, aga maitsvad ja mõnusad ikka. Viigimarju ostes tasub teha veidi kompamistööd ehk siis õige küpsusega viigimari on parajalt pehme ja vetruv. Ja mida lillakam, seda parem.
Viigimarju tasub esmalt niisamagi süüa. Hea juustuga koos moodustab viigimari suurepärase kombinatsiooni. Ka siin lihtsas roas on kokku sobitatud viigimari ja kitsejuust. See on kooslus, millest on keeruline küllastuda. Nii täiuslikult maitsev! Roog ise on imelihtne.
Kuidas valmistada?
Esmalt tuleks välja valida pehmed ja küpsed viigimarjad. Viigimarjad tuleks pesta, viigimarja tipus olev tugevam varreots eemaldada ja viigimarja ristlõige teha. Ristlõike sisse saab istutada kitsejuustu. Mina kasutasin Rimis müüdavad meega pehmet kitsejuustu, mis oma soolakas-magusa iseloomu tõttu sobitus suurepäraselt viigimarjaga. Viigimarjadele jahvata veidi värsket musta pipart, säti mõned tüümianioksad ning nirista peale veidi oliiviõli.
Vaata Tuuli Mathiseni teisi retsepte tema võrratust blogist "Ise tehtud, hästi tehtud", mille leiad SIIT.
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