Fig Salad with Goat's Milk Yogurt and Pepper Cress

Fig Salad with Goat's Milk Yogurt and Pepper Cress
Servings: 4

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup goat's milk yogurt
  • 1/2 cup soft fresh goat cheese, crumbled
  • 2 teaspoons honey
  • 1/2 teaspoon (scant) vanilla extract
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  • 24 ripe black Mission figs, halved lengthwise
  • Fleur de sel*
  • 2 bunches pepper cress or watercress, thick stems trimmed (about 4 cups)
  • 1 cup (loosely packed) small mint leaves
  • Extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1 dried Indonesian long pepper**

Instructions

  1. Whisk together first 5 ingredients in medium bowl. Season with salt and reserve. Sprinkle figs with fleur de sel; set in center of plate. Drizzle dressing on figs; scatter pepper cress and mint over. Season with olive oil and Indonesian pepper.
  2. A type of sea salt; available at some supermarkets and at specialty foods stores.
  3. ** Also known as Balinese long pepper; available at specialty foods stores, Middle Eastern markets, and from zingermans.com.

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