Snacks for dinner! Hear us out: sometimes you want a light bite or noshes for happy hour that tide you over as a main meal. We have four ideas for snacking dinners with dried figs to try next time you want finger food to rule.
PROSCIUTTO: Snacking Dinners
Crispy Prosciutto Fig Crostini with Brown Butter Pistachios
Technically, you’ve got all four food groups loaded onto slices of baguette, toasted until crisp. The brown butter pistachios take these tiny toasts over the top as they bring a nutty flavor to prosciutto baked until crackly with sweet slices of dried mission fig, and peppery arugula.
Arancini Stuffed with Cheesy Prosciutto Fig Filling
These fancy little bites require a bit of preparation, but trust us, they’re worth it! So, make risotto and chill it. Then, invite some friends over as you stuff balls of risotto with the mascarpone, prosicutto, fig filling. The balls get rolled in panko and fried. Make it a fun activity of an assembly line to be enjoyed later with wine. Serve it with arugula for something green.
CHEESE: Snacking Dinners
French Baguette Ham + Cheese Bites
Think of your favorite French sandwich—ham and cheese on baguette—and scale it way down to three bites. The dried mission figs add a touch of sweetness as a swipe of mustard adds acidity. These would be perfect with a side of cornichon pickles.
Sweet Potato “Toasts” with Blue Cheese & Mission Figs
Avoiding gluten? Try making sweet potato “toasts” that roast rounds of sweet potato until almost fork tender, to be topped as we do here, with a sprinkle of blue cheese, quartered mission fig, and drizzle of honey. If you want to add some greens to the mix, arugula would work well here too—just broil the blue cheese on the sweet potatoes until slightly melted to help the arugula adhere and then add the fig and honey.
