Name: Harissa-Spiced Fig, Merguez and Almond Salad
Yield: For 2
Ingredients: ½ tsp dried mint; 3 tsp runny honey; pinch of salt; 6 merguez sausages (or use spicy chorizo); 6 fresh figs; 35 g/1¼ oz/⅓ cup flaked (slivered) almonds; 1 soupçon oil; handful of frisée (curly endive) lettuce; 2tbsp olive oil; 50 g/1¾ oz.dark green salad leaves; salt; 1tsp orange flower water; 1tbsp balsamic vinegar; pinch of chilli (red pepper) flakes; ½ tsp ground cumin; ½ tsp ground coriander; pinch of caraway seeds; ¼ tsp smoked paprika

Preparation info

For
2

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Salmagundi

By Sally Butcher

Published 2014

About

This is a rather special salad. Actually, figs have the capacity to render pretty much anything special: their appearance is lush for starters – they have but to lie down on a plate or pose in a fruit bowl and they steal the show. They are also fêted for their aphrodisiac properties: yup – they are the all-round floozy of the fruit world.

Fun fig fact: they would not have survived as a species if it wasn’t for a tiny critter known as the fig wasp, Blastophaga grossorum (a nam