Recipe - Figs In Red Wine With Blue Cheese

1 cup Zinfandel or other dry red
wine
1 cup Water
One fourth cup Unsweetened orange juice
1 tablespoon Lemon juice
One half cup Sugar
16 Fresh figs, (1 pound)
2 tablespoon Crumbled blue cheese, (1/2
ounce)

Combine first 5 ingredients in a large saucepan; stir well. Bring to a
boil, and cook, uncovered, 15 minutes or until reduced to One half cup. Spoon
into a bowl; cover and chill 2 hours.

Place 4 figs into each of 4 dessert compotes; drizzle each with 2
tablespoons red wine sauce. Top each with 1One half teaspoons blue cheese.
Yield: 4 servings.

Per serving: 306 Calories; 2g Fat (6% calories from fat); 3g Protein; 65g
Carbohydrate; 3mg Cholesterol; 66mg Sodium

Recipe by: Cooking Light, Jul/Aug 1994, page 131

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #424 by igor@digex.net on Jan 28, 1997.