Recipe for roast chicken legs with sticky figs, red onions and oloroso vinegar

Thomasina Miers’ recipe for roast chicken legs with sticky figs, red onions and oloroso vinegar

While going through Spain one October, cooking as I went, I was astonished to perceive how late the fig season was. Sweet, tacky organic product swung from the loaded branches in large numbers, and we ate them wherever we went – in syrup, with cheddar, heated and new. My top pick of all, however, were the figs simmered in exquisite pretenses. Here, I prepare them with oloroso vinegar, a sweet, adjusted sherry vinegar rather like balsamic, which covers the products of the soil in a tacky, delightful caramel. » Read more