Fig Pizza with Acorn Squash and Goat Cheese

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The other day I was contacted by the California Fig Advisory Board, wanting to know if I’d like to try some California figs. This is the year I discovered how incredibly delicious figs are, to the point of pouncing in the figs at the market each week, no matter whether I knew what to do with them. So, of course I was very excited about getting to try some California figs, hoping I would get a couple different varieties.

I was completely shocked when I received two giant boxes filled with figs! I unpacked more and more and more figs. All told I received 3 dozen each of 5 varieties of fresh figs, plus two 4-pound bags of dried figs! I freaked out for a moment wondering just what to do with so many and then thanked my lucky stars we have an extra fridge in the garage.

Fig Pizza - Fig Pizza - Figs contain tons of fiber and are a good source of potassium.

Here in Texas we can grow figs (many people have their own trees) but I had never heard of four of the varieties I was sent. In the grocery stores I’ve only seen Black Mission figs, and at the farmers’ market I’ve only come across Brown Turkey and Strawberry figs, even though there are over 100 different varieties of fig. The California figs are also larger than most I’ve seen here – I’m guessing our intense summers have something to do with that.

Since I’ve started growing my own food I’ve been amazed to learn all the little tidbits about produce, and I was surprised to learn that figs are actually flowers inverted into themselves. Despite them not actually being a fruit, figs are packed full of nutrients. They have tons of fiber and are a good source of potassium, which is great news for people like me who have odd reactions to bananas!

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From left to right, the figs are Sierra, Brown Turkey, Calimyrna, Black Mission, and Kadota. I took some in to work and my friends and I tasted each one, trying to determine the difference between them all. All four of us decided that the Calimyrna was the best of them all, and I’m very pleased that one of the bags of dried figs is indeed of Calimyrna.

Since I have so many figs I of course have been experimenting, and my first thought as I was falling asleep the other night was to make a pizza.

Fig Pizza - Figs contain tons of fiber and are a good source of potassium, so make yourself a fig pizza with acorn squash and goat cheese!

 

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Fig Pizza

Fig Pizza with Acorn Squash and Goat Cheese

Fresh figs pair with soft goat cheese for a tasty pizza
Author : Megan Myers
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 4
Calories 179 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 1 small acorn squash
  • 2-3 figs, diced
  • 1/2 cup crumbled goat cheese, I used an herbed variety
  • pizza dough
  • Olive oil

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 400°F. Halve acorn squash, de-seed, and slice into crescents. Rub each slice with olive oil and set on a foil-lined baking sheet. Bake until easily pierced with a fork, about 20 minutes. Let cool, then diced into 1-inch chunks.
  • Turn oven up to 475°F.
  • Roll out pizza dough. Drizzle olive oil across dough, then scatter squash, figs, and goat cheese on top. Cook for about 12 minutes, until dough is browned and cheese has softened.

Nutrition

Calories: 179 kcalCarbohydrates: 18 gProtein: 7 gFat: 10 gSaturated Fat: 5 gCholesterol: 13 mgSodium: 158 mgFiber: 3 gSugar: 6 g

Nutrition information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate based on online calculators. Any nutritional information found on Stetted should be used as a general guideline only.

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Disclaimer: The California Fig Advisory Board provided me with fresh and dried figs. I was under no obligation to write about figs or hold a giveaway.

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45 Comments

  1. ::gasp:: a fig giveaway?!? this is awesome! i’d smother them in as much brie as they could hold with a drizzle of reduced sweet balsamic vinegar. mmmmm.

  2. 1st: stuff my face with them. 2nd: Make Stilton cheese, fig compote and local honey on slices of baguette. 3rd: give figgy gifts to friends and loved ones.

  3. I rarely cook with figs because I usually get them in such small quantities that I devour them all plain.
    But with a whole box, I would make ice cream ribboned with a balsamic reduction.
    And eat the rest plain.

  4. OH wow! I really want FIGS. I love them. I have been focusing on only eating fruits as desserts but I have plenty of people I can share with. I would make fig pancakes, fig preserves, Add them in my salads and in my green smoothies. They have a lot of vitmamins. They have been a bit expensive in MI. email: noellsky (at) gmail (dot) com

  5. I know at least half a dozen different fig jam recipes. Plus some yummy fig ice cream recipes. And then there’s fig with ANY cheese, fig with ANY salty preserved meat, and on, and on, and on. Mmmmmmmmm

  6. Okay, now I like you on FB. And I retweeted it. And you know what’s funny? I had your blog in my list of favs waaay before I knew it was YOUR blog – I found it in an Austin food blogger reference somewhere.
    The thing is, I really like figs.

  7. I love to make Fig Jam .. Also love figs grilled with a drizzle of balsamic vinegar. And most of all just love to snack on them!!

  8. If I were to win the box of figs, I would recreate an unbelievable fig and blue cheese pizza I had while at a conference in Orlando. It was delicious!

    I would also share it with Noelle (@singerinkitchen). We probably live within three miles of each other, chat frequently on twitter and have talked about meeting up at the farmers market but haven’t managed to do it yet! The figs would get us to finally do it! I am sure of it!

  9. Oh figs, figgy fig figs how I love thee!

    What I will make:
    Fig Infused Vodka for a Figtini
    Fig Jam for the cupboards & to share with friends
    Fig Paste for cheese plates
    Fig & Gorgonzola Tarts
    Goat cheese stuffed, Proscuitto wrapped Figs with honey & rosemary
    A Fig Sauce with a touch of very old Balsamic, for drizzling sparingly on delicious roasted meats during the long hard figless winters
    Fig portraits, since being a food photographer is my day job, there’s no way I wouldn’t be putting together a TON of photo still life shots showing off the gloriousness that is figs.

    Just the thought of a box of fresh figs… my heart is aflutter *swooon*

  10. OhMyGod!!!! I can not tell you how much I love figs. I had a wonderful fig tree growing at my house in California and then we had to move to New England and it wrecked everything. I miss my figs so so badly. I would make a fig torte and I would make fig preserves and I would make a fig and goat cheese pizza and I could go on and on and on.