Fig & walnut tart with tamarind & maple syrup ice cream

Name: Fig & walnut tart with tamarind & maple syrup ice cream
Yield: This will make 1 tart, large enough for 8 good portions
Cuisine: Canadian
Ingredients: 120 g butter, softened to room temperature; 120 g unrefined caster sugar, plus 1 tsp extra; 2 tsp ground ginger; pinch of salt; 1 lined 24-26-cm fluted, loose-bottomed tart shell, not blind baked; 2 eggs; 6 figs (they must be really ripe); 10 ml (2 tsp) vanilla extract; 170 g lightly toasted walnut halves; 2 Tbsp flour

Preparation info

This will make
1
tart, large enough

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Fusion

By Peter Gordon

Published 2010

About

The combination of figs and walnuts always makes me think of Turkey, as it produces some of the finest of both ingredients. On one of my first visits to Turkey we headed to a town called Gümüslük at the tip of the Bodrum Peninsula. Gümüslük is a fishing village which has been frequented by artists for years, but these days it has become something of a tourist mecca, which is always a shame but inevitable. However, the fish restaurants that line the small foreshore serve some of the best fis