Monday, November 1, 2010

Fig and Ricotta Flatbread

This is so simple, with just a few ingredients, but it is delicious!  The ricotta, rosemary, and figs are a heavenly (if not unlikely) combination).  I served this for dinner with an egg and bacon salad, and it was both comforting and elegant at the end of the day. 

With so few ingredients, get the best you can.  I used store-bought pizza dough.  And fat-free ricotta.  And dried figs (they are no longer easy to find fresh here).  My husband did not complain about any of the above.  But, I implore you to at least use fresh rosemary!  This is one of my most helpful strategies in cooking...when using some less than fresh (i.e., canned) ingredients, use fresh herbs and feel altogether less guilty.  Or don't feel guilty at all.  You still cooked dinner, right?

Fig and Ricotta Flatbread
serves 4-6 as a main-dish, more an an appetizer
adapted from 5 Ingredient Fix: Easy, Elegant, and Irresistible Recipes, by Claire Robinson

Ingredients:

1 lb pizza dough -- it stretches better if you let it hang out on the counter a half hour before you are going to work with it.
2 Tbsp garlic flavored oil (or 2 Tbsp olive oil and a few shakes of, ahem, garlic powder)
1 1/2 cups ricotta cheese, preferably fresh
1 tsp finely chopped fresh rosemary
salt and pepper
12-16 fresh or dried figs, sliced

Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Coat an 11 x 17 jelly roll pan with a little extra oil or cooking spray.  Stretch the dough to fit the pan -- you want it to be quite thin.
3. Sprinkle the garlic oil (or olive oil and garlic powder) over the dough.
4. Combine the ricotta and chopped rosemary.  Spread over the dough.
5. Sprinkle the fig slices on top.
6. Pop in the oven, and bake for 12-15 minutes.  Sprinkle with a little more garlic oil and rosemary, if desired, and cut into rectangles before serving.

25 comments:

  1. This sounds SO good! Not a combination I ever would have thought of but I can imagine how delicious it is. I needed fresh figs for a recipe last week and couldn't find them either. I've often used dried for fresh. Great recipe, thank you!

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  2. I have a ton of dried figs at home...and we're always making pizza dough. This sounds like a simply delicious meal! Thank you for sharing...and I'm glad to hear that you liked it with fat-free ricotta!

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  3. This sounds fantastic. I think I'd add some proscuitto to it to make it a little salty too!

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  4. Love the simple ingredient list. I never would have thought of using ricotta. It sounds really good though!

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  5. Figs are my new favorite! I've been experimenting combining them with goat cheese but this sounds good also!

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  6. Great idea, love the look and I bet it tasted DIVINE

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  7. I bought some black mission figs this weekend at the market and I couldn't believe how SWEET they were. Totally unexpected.

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  8. This looks delicious and I LOVE the flavor combinations... Yum figs!!

    Sues

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  9. Oh, that sounds like a fabulous combo!!!

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  10. I don't even know if I've ever had figs - dried or fresh? Looks delicious! And I agree - fresh herbs make all the difference - I could kick myself for not bringing my herbs indoors, and we've already had our first frost - they look as if they were torched they were so dead!

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  11. I love the combination of sweet and savory with the ricotta and fig - This looks delicious! Thanks for sharing!

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  12. Ha - I definitely don't feel guilty as long as supper is on the table one way or another! I love the ingredients you used for this flatbread, and congrats on another complain-free dinner!!!

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  13. I loooove figs and ricotta. Ricotta and grapes work well too! I totally agree with fresh herbs too, yum:)

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  14. Oh...this looks so delectable. Thank you for the recipe!

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  15. Fig and ricotta is a wonderful party combo. I think this will be so yummy!

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  16. This looks wonderful! I bet the combination of the fig and ricotta is delicious!

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  17. I love the sound of this foccacia! Figs and ricotta are a delicious combo!

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  18. This sounds like a beautiful combination of flavors! Definitely something I will try soon!

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  19. Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving!

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  20. come back....! we miss you and your tasty recipes! (although i do understand a need for a blog break now and then!). hope you had a lovely thanksgiving!

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  21. I just tried my first fresh fig not too long ago. I've been looking for a way to use some - now I need to go buy some!

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  22. Hey, havnt seen a post for awhile...just cheking in on you!

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  23. Happy new year - hope you come back with some new recipes! :D

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  24. Yep - me again! Hope you are doing okay!

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  25. Wow....this sounds so good! I wish I had some figs!

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