This is an unusual side dish that will get everyone’s taste buds singing.

1 sheet puff pastry, defrosted

1 (approximately 13 ounces) jar fig preserves

1 red onion, very thinly sliced

2 pears, very thinly sliced

2 teaspoons cinnamon-sugar mixture

2 tablespoons margarine, cut into pieces

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Press puff pastry into bottom and up sides of a rectangular tart pan. Spread fig preserves across the bottom, then onion, then pears. Sprinkle with the cinnamon-sugar and dot with margarine.  Bake until browned – 45 minutes to 1 hour.

By Emuna Braverman and Elizabeth Kurtz, of www.gourmetkoshercooking.com

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