Honey pastries with baked figs | Matching Food & Wine

Honey pastries with baked figs | Matching Food & Wine

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A Spanish take on baklava from one of my favourite Spanish chefs, José Pizarro. A hedonistic combination of honey, nuts and figs - what’s not to like?

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Cooking tools:

  • Baking pan
  • Pastry brush
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Saucepan
  • Mixing bowl
  • Baking dish
  • Oven
  • Spoon
  • Measuring spoon

Ingredients

  • 125 g (4 ½ oz/2⁄3 cup) caster (superfine) sugar
  • 50 ml (2 fl oz/ ¼ cup) honey
  • ½ teaspoon orange blossom water
  • 225 ml (7 ½ fl oz/scant 1 cup) water
  • 150 g (5 oz) mixed nuts such as walnuts, almonds, pistachios, finely chopped
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 100 g (3 ½ oz) unsalted butter, melted
  • 6–8 sheets of filo pastry
  • 8 ripe figs, halved
  • good drizzle of honey
  • 4 tablespoons Pedro Ximenez sherry
  • handful of flaked almonds, toasted
  • creme fraiche (optional)

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