Fig and Gingered Mascarpone Napoleons

Name: Fig and Gingered Mascarpone Napoleons
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 7
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp finely chopped crystallized ginger, or to taste; 680 grams 26 firm-ripe fresh figs; 241 grams cup mascarpone cheese; 1 frozen puff pastry sheet (from a 17 1/4-oz package), thawed; 3 Tbsps sugar; 1 teaspoons vanilla

Fig and Gingered Mascarpone Napoleons might be a good recipe to expand your main course recipe box. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 3528 calories, 47g of protein, and 242g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 7. This recipe covers 45% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. 1 person found this recipe to be delicious and satisfying. Head to the store and pick up crystallized ginger, firm-ripe figs, mascarpone cheese, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the figs you could follow this main course with the Panna Cotta With Figs as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

Roll out pastry with a floured rolling pin on a lightly floured surface into a 15- by 12-inch rectangle (3/4 inch thick) and trim edges. Halve pastry lengthwise with a pastry wheel or large knife to form 2 (15- by 6-inch) strips.

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Roll

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Knife

Cut each strip crosswise into 7 equal rectangles (for a total of 14). Arrange rectangles in 1 layer on 2 large baking sheets and chill 20 minutes.

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Preheat oven to 400°F.

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While pastry is chilling, trim and chop 4 figs and stir together with mascarpone, ginger, sugar, and vanilla. Chill filling, covered.

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Vanilla

Ginger

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Figs

Cover pastry rectangles on 1 baking sheet with an inverted large metal cooling rack to lightly weight them, then bake in upper third of oven until golden and cooked through, 15 to 18 minutes.

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Remove rack carefully and transfer baked pastry to another rack to cool completely.

Bake remaining rectangles, weighted with rack (make sure it's cooled), in same manner.

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While pastry is baking, cut remaining figs lengthwise into 1/4-inch-thick slices.

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Figs

Spread filling over 7 pastry rectangles and top with half of sliced figs, overlapping them. Dust with confectioners sugar. Cover figs with remaining pastry rectangles and top with remaining figs, overlapping them. Dust with confectioners sugar.

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Powdered Sugar