Tein Matboukh ( Fig Jam)

This is one of my Dad's recipes, he used to make Tein Matboukh every year, end of summer, in a massive saucepan and he stirred them with a wooden spoon made specially that looks like a flat baseball bat! 

Ingredients:

1 kg Dried Fig

1 ltr Water

1 ½ cup Sugar

2 tsp Aniseed powder

2 tsp Miskeh / Mastic (pound into powder with a bit of sugar)

Roasted Sesame Seeds

    Cut the fig into small chunks. Put them in saucepan with water, sugar and aniseed. Place saucepan on a high heat till water starts boiling. Lower the heat to the minimum & let it cook till most of the water evaporated & the figs are soft & tender. Add grounded miskeh/ mastic. Stir the mixture until all the water has evaporated & the mixture is sticking together.

Put it in containers and sprinkle the top with roasted sesame seed.

It is best eaten with walnut on top of the sesame seeds with or without bread.
Yummy!!