Roast Figs with Pecan Brittle Ice Cream

Name: Roast Figs with Pecan Brittle Ice Cream
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: A good large handful of shelled pecan nuts, lightly crushed with a rolling pin; 1 recipe quantity Custard; 50 g butter; 100 g caster sugar; 18 black figs (preferably Provençal); 100 ml Amaretto; 1 vanilla pod, split and the seeds scraped out; 50 g sugar

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

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By Anthony Demetre

Published 2008

About

At Arbutus this is how we serve our roast figs, but if you haven’t got the time to make pecan nut brittle ice cream, a good bought vanilla ice cream would be almost as good.

Ingredients

18 black figs (preferably Provençal)
50 g butter
50 g

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
England
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Well ahead, make the ice cream: put the sugar in a dry heavy-based pan and heat until it caramelizes. Don’t be afraid to let it get to be a good deep colour. Using a wooden spoon, mix in half the pecans. Let cool slightly and then mix in the custard followed by the remaining pecans. Mix well and leave to cool completely. When cool, churn in an ice-cream machine until frozen and then put in the