The figs in the salad are especially colorful——the ruby-red flesh covered by bright green skin.
Do you have a special variety you prefer among those on the market?
• Mission figs have dark purple skin and reddish-brown flesh. Missions are my favorites for cooking; I love their special intensity. These are the figs California is famous for.
• Brown Turkeys, a large southern fig, have brownish skin and pink flesh. They’re also grown in California.
• Royal Mediterraneans are green-skinned with a purple tinge. The flesh is a whitish pink.
• Calimyrnas (the California version of a variety called Smyrna) have green skins and ivory-colored flesh; they’re used for drying and eating out of hand.
• Kadota, White King, Everbearing, and Strawberry figs are other varieties that you may find at the market to cook and to eat out of hand.
I brought a Mission fig cutting from our tree in No CA. We had 2 huge ones and I love this fig. My little tree was destroyed by recent hail, but is now struggling back.
We also planted a Brown Turkey as it grows well in upstate SC. This one has taken off and I hope for some fruit this year.
Thanks for the review. I love all things fig.
This has been my favorite fig recipe for years. It uses dried Calimyrnas, and I’m not sure how it would do with others: