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Fig Salad with Goat's Milk Yogurt and Pepper Cress

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Recipe information

  • Yield

    6 Servings

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,* ground in spice mill

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Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Whisk together first 5 ingredients in medium bowl. Season with salt and reserve.

    Step 2

    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.

    Step 3

    * Also known as Balinese long pepper; available at specialty foods stores, Middle Eastern markets, and from zingermans.com.