Fig Montaditos with Cheese, Mint, and Orange Honey | James Beard Foundation

Name: Fig Montaditos with Cheese, Mint, and Orange Honey | James Beard Foundation
Total time: 90 min
Ingredients: 1/2 cup honey; Zest of a quarter of an orange; Dash orange blossom water; 1 cup fresh sheep’s or goat’s milk cheese, such as Miticrema, at room temperature; 2 tablespoons heavy cream; Zest of 1 lemon; Salt; pepper; 6 Brown Turkey or Black Mission figs, thinly sliced; 6 thick slices crusty sourdough or peasant bread, toasted; 12 mint leaves, thinly sliced

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Spain’s answer to crostini, montaditos are an extremely versatile appetizer or snack. Here, chef Christopher Deluna, fashions montaditos out of fresh cheese, ci

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Ingredients

1/2 cup honey
Zest of a quarter of an orange
Dash orange blossom water
1 cup fresh sheep’s or goat’s milk cheese, such as Miticrema, at room temperature
2 tablespoons heavy cream
Zest of 1 lemon
Salt
pepper
6 Brown Turkey or Black Mission figs, thinly sliced
6 thick slices crusty sourdough or peasant bread, toasted
12 mint leaves, thinly sliced