Le Marche Recipes: Salame di Fichi ( Figs Salami)

Le Marche Recipes - Salame di Fichi: an inventive and tasty way to preserve figs during the winter



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For this recipe you’ll need a glass of “sapa”: it is concentrated must or grape juice, it comes in the form of a sweet, dark liquid and is obtained boiling the must until it reaches half of its volume.

Ingredients:

finely cut dried figs

finely chopped skinless almonds

finely chopped walnuts

a small glass of sapa

a small glass of mistra’

Thoroughly mix in a bowl the ingredients, slowly adding the sapa and the mistra’, untill it reaches the consitency of a firm paste. Give the mixture an elongated shape, like a salami.

Wrap the small salami in figs leaves and hang in a cool, dry spot.

Enjoy during the cold winter months.

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