There are many recipes with figs in Italian cooking. Dried figs are used for celebration days cakes reecipes as All Souls day cakes, Christmas cakes and fresh figs are used for desserts, appetizers and drinks recipes. Here you can find traditional and modern recipes with figs.
Typical Christmas sweet from Valtellina; rich of dried figs is a very wonder of the rustic cooking. Try it, for Christmas or simply for a breakfast Italian style.
it is a more tasty version of the Italian traditional recipe ham with figs "prosciutto e fichi" prepared with the lonzino, that is the smoked cured pig loin.