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Fig Bites with Tahini

August 17, 2018 by Linda Watson Leave a Comment

Fig Bites with Tahini

Make a tray of healthy snacks or appetizers in under 10 minutes! Sweet-and-salty Fig Bites have just three ingredients, with no cooking required. The pictures show my home-grown figs mixed with Black Mission figs from California. The birds beat me to the fig tree today.

Tahini is sesame-seed spread, rich in calcium, iron, potassium, and fiber. As I wrote in Wildly Affordable Organic,

Tahini is the new bacon!

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Fig Bites with Tahini
Serve Fig Bites as a no-cook snack or appetizer. The tender, sweet figs contrast with the salty, creamy tahini. Raw, vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free.
fresh figs with tahini on a fig leaf and plate
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Course appetizer
Prep Time 10 minutes
Servings
servings
Ingredients
  • 12 medium figs fresh and ripe
  • fig leaves for serving, optional
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons tahini
  • salt to taste
Course appetizer
Prep Time 10 minutes
Servings
servings
Ingredients
  • 12 medium figs fresh and ripe
  • fig leaves for serving, optional
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons tahini
  • salt to taste
fresh figs with tahini on a fig leaf and plate
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Instructions
  1. Cut figs in half. Remove stems for zero-waste noshing or leave them on as handles if you can trust everyone not to eat them. (They aren't dangerous, just woody.) Arrange figs cut-side up on a plate, lined with fig leaves if desired.
  2. Spread or pipe about 1/8th teaspoon tahini on the center of each fig half. Sprinkle with salt.
    fresh figs topped with tahini on a plate
  3. Serve within an hour or refrigerate. Best eaten soon after prepared, but you could refrigerate any extra for a day or two.
Recipe Notes
  • To pipe or not to pipe? The piping lets you center the tahini so you can see the lovely figs underneath. Piping takes more time, though, and you will waste a little tahini. A quick dab is faster and saves a few pennies.
  • How to pipe?  I used a piping tip and bag, but a snipped baggie would work just as well. Tahini is too soft to hold a fancy shape.
  • Could you do this with almond butter instead? Sure! Peanut butter? Not recommended.
  • If you made several trays of these for a party and they weren't all eaten, I'd remove any stems, chop them up in a food processor, and cook them down into a sweet-and-savory sauce to pour over pasta or beans.

 

Filed Under: Recipe, Snack Tagged With: figs, gluten-free, party, raw, summer, tahini, vegan

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