Making Fig Jam with Megan’s Mom

Last week I went to my mom’s house to make fig jam. It’s currently fig season, now’s the time to make this jam. My mom picked a bucket full of figs from her friends tree, however, figs are in season and I’ve seen them in Trader Joes, Wegmans and Harris Teeter. Check your local market if you aren’t blessed with a neighborhood fig tree.

The recipe is one my mom has adapted over time from Food & Wine, it’s really easy and the base has only three ingredients. Start to finish we made our fig jam in one hour.

Fig Jam

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This is a quick and easy fig jam, it is not "canned" or preserved so it should be eaten within a week or two.

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Course Side Dish

Servings 12

Ingredients

  

• 2 lbs green or purple figs, stemmed and cut into 1/2 inch pieces
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 cup water

optional

• 2 ripe peaches cut into 1/2 inch pieces
• 1 bunch fresh rosemary
• 2 tbsp vanilla

Instructions

 

• run your jars through the dishwasher so they are freshly clean

  gather your ingredients, wash and chop the fruit
• toss figs/fruit with sugar in the pan you will boil them in and let sit 15 min.
• add lemon juice and water and bring to a boil over medium high heat, stir until sugar is dissolved
• simmer for 20 min. until desired thickness
• spoon into jars and leave 1/4" space at top
• close and cool to room temp and store in fridge

Notes

A few notes on serving:

• spoon over goat cheese and serve with cheese
• put on inside of grilled cheese sandwich
• coat a pork loin and cook in the insta pot
• serve on toast 

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