Fig recipes

When it's fig season, we can't wait to sink our teeth into these little purple fruits. They work equally well in sweet and savoury dishes. For a light lunch, we love draping them with thin slices of jamon or prosciutto for a summery salad; or come autumn, we'll pair them with grilled duck breast and radicchio.

In desserts, figs are in fine form baked into a crostata (we have three recipes: a fig and raspberry crostata, another with almonds and custard, and a ricotta and Marsala number); or glazed with sugar and spooned atop a cake.