Our producer from near Cosenza, Calabria have for many years made these figs, soaked in rum and stuffed with a candied cherry, but never offered us to try them until 2017. They were an immediate success and our now a Christmas favourite for us and all our customers.
Born recently in 1998, but based on recipes of family tradition of over 50 years. our much loved producer works only with the renowned Cosenza figs. They are considered among the best figs in the world for fleshiness and sweet flavour, which becomes even tastier if eaten dried or stuffed with almonds or walnuts.
The famed quality of the Fico del Cosenza, the control of the orchards in the production, the drying, the packaging with terracotta baskets and containers produced in Calabria, are the most important values of the company born to rediscover the true flavours of the Cosenza and Calabrian confectionary tradition.
Plump Calabrian figs are soaked with rum, filled with a sweet candied cherry and generously coated in rich dark chocolate. Each bite moves from bittersweet chocolate through soft, honeyed fig to the warming rum and bright sweetness of cherry at its centre.
The figs are the prized local Dottato variety, personally selected by our producer from small farms in the hills around Cosenza. Naturally low in seeds, they have beautifully full, succulent flesh and an intensely sweet, almost honeyed flavour. Left to ripen under the Calabrian sun, they begin to dry naturally on the tree before being carefully harvested by hand.
Created especially for Carluccio’s by our family producer in Calabria, what began as an experimental recipe has become one of our most eagerly anticipated Christmas treats.
Rich, fruity and gently boozy, they are particularly good after dinner with an espresso, or perhaps a small glass of rum alongside.
