Chilled Fresh Figs with Raspberries

Name: Chilled Fresh Figs with Raspberries (Figues fraîches rafraîchies aux framboises)
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: For two people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon caster or icing sugar; 6 crystallised violets; 3 tablespoons double cream; 1 tablespoon caster or icing sugar; 2 tablespoons redcurrant jelly; 2 tablespoons eau-de-vie de framboise; 6 fresh figs, ripe but not too soft, preferably ‘muscat’ figs; 100 g (3½ oz) fresh raspberries

Figues fraîches rafraîchies aux framboises

Preparation info

For
two
people

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
20 min

Appears in

Cuisine of the Sun

By Roger Vergé

Published 1979

About

Ingredients

6 fresh figs, ripe but not too soft, preferably ‘muscat’ figs
100 g (3½ oz) fresh raspberries

Europe
France
Dessert
Gluten-free
Mediterranean
Vegetarian

Method

Peel six fresh figs (strip off their thin violet skins or just stroke them lightly with the blade of a small knife). Cut off the stalk. Make two cuts in the middle of the figs in the form of a cross, without cutting right through. Then, pressing lightly with your thumb in the middle of the fruit open out the four ‘petals’ of flesh. Keep them on one side. Put the raspberr