Do you feel the same way? Every fall, the branches on the fig tree bend under the weight of unripe figs. The fruits are far too good to rot uselessly on the tree. Read here how you can use unripe figs in a tasty way.
What to do with unripe figs?
You can use unripe figs deliciously bycooking them in syrup. Raw, unripe figs are poisonous. Onlyboiling it twice in water dissolves the slightly poisonous latex in unripe figs, which is contained in all parts of a Ficus carica plant.
Can you eat unripe figs?
Unripe figs areraw slightly poisonous You can eat cooked unripe figs because the toxins dissolve in boiling water. If a he althy adult eats a single, unripe fig, there are usually no toxic aftereffects. After consuming large quantities of unripe figs, typical symptoms of poisoning occur, such as nausea and vomiting.
All parts of a fig plant are slightly poisonous. The reason for the toxicity is a milky sap that flows freely when the fig tree is pruned and causes allergic reactions when it comes into contact with the skin.
How can you use unripe figs?
You can make delicious use of unripe figs byCooking them in syrup. It's that easy to prepare:
- Ingredients: 500 g green figs, 750 g sugar, 250 ml water, lemon juice, cinnamon stick.
- Put on gloves and score the unripe figs crosswise.
- Boil the figs in water for 15 minutes, drain the cooking water, repeat the process.
- Boil water and sugar into syrup.
- Simmer the figs in the syrup for 15 minutes, leave to stand for a day.
- Scoop the figs from the syrup.
- Cook cinnamon stick in syrup for 20-30 minutes.
- Add figs and lemon juice, stir and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Pour figs in syrup into a screw-top jar.
Tip
Unripe figs do not ripen
Unripe figs resist all efforts to allow the fruit to ripen. In contrast to ripening fruits such as bananas and apples, unripe figs do not produce ethylene, also known as ripening gas. You should put a fig tree in a pot and its unripe fruits into winter quarters. There is at least the prospect that these are fruit-like inflorescences that will ripen next year.
