Palace Fig Pudding

Incir Tatlısı

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Yashim Cooks Istanbul

By Jason Goodwin

Published 2016

  • About

This pudding dish was a palace staple, very easy on the chef but utterly delicious – especially made with soft dried figs available particularly to sultans.

Ingredients

  • dried figs 12
  • warm water 350ml/ cups
  • walnuts

Method

  • With the stem uppermost, cut each fig horizontally almost in half, without actually severing them.
  • Soak the figs in warm water for 30 minutes. Save the water.
  • Break the walnut halves into pieces, not too small, and stuff some into the middle of each fig. Close the figs and stand them side by side in a shallow saucepan.
  • Stir the sugar into the