Calabrian Baked Fig Balls

This Fig Ball comes from Cosenza, Calabria, in southern Italy. It is a delicious and traditionally ingenious way of preserving the juicy dottato variety of figs, which have tender skins, soft seeds and are unique to this region. The figs are picked when plump and air-dried under nets before cooking for eighteen hours at a very low temperature.These delectable fig balls completely transform a cheese board, and also combine perfectly with ice cream.