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Pasta with Sausage and Black Figs
Photo courtesy of Francine Segan.
Difficulty Level
Low
Cooking Time
1/2 hour
Cost
Medium
Figs, with their jam-like sweetness, add pizzazz to the sausage, building a smoky, and deeply satisfying pasta dish. This recipe is from Caneva, a community in Friuli Venezia Giulia, a region in northern Italy renowned for its delicious black figs, figo moro.
The area’s climate combined with the soil’s particular minerality creates one of Italy’s most highly sought-after figs, rich in flavor and with a soft, delicious skin. The figs are characterized by their excepti
