Fig Lovers Fall Cheeseboard
There is a special time each year that is Fall fig season. Figs are a juicy, jammy and sweet fruit that accompany cheese perfectly. This fig lovers board is made with fresh figs; fig preserves and dried figs to taste each variation of this special fruit.
Ingredients
| Fresh figs (green and purple) | |
| ½ cup | fig preserves |
| 1/3 cup | maple or pumpkin butter |
| ½ cup | sesame almonds (or any seasoned almonds) |
| ½ cup | green olives |
| 4 oz | Le Gruyere AOP, cut into slices |
| 1/2 cup | dried apricots or dried figs |
| 2 | vines of champagne grapes |
| seeded crackers | |
| thyme sprigs |
Instructions
- Half the figs and scatter them onto a large wooden cheese board.
- Add small bowls of fig preserves, maple butter and green olives onto three different parts of the board.
- Fill in the rest of the board with gruyere slices, sesame almonds, dried apricots, champagne grapes, seeded crackers and thyme sprigs.
