An easy sweet and herby bread recipe that’s perfect for a warming breakfast, dessert, or afternoon snack! This Sweet Gluten-Free Rosemary & Fig Quick Bread is vegan, allergy-free, full of dried mission figs, fig preserves, rosemary, and topped with a brown sugar crumble!
The greatest dried fruit, the fig, the greatest aromatic herb, rosemary. Combine these two elegant ingredients and you’ll have one show stopping flavor combination on your hands! Pairing fruit with an herby, typically savory, ingredient always yields a mouthwatering delicious taste experience. Yet it is an underutilized food phenomenon that needs to go mainstream and grace more kitchens ASAP! Fruit and herbs are a must and soon you’ll be pairing them together every chance you get!
What are the ingredients in this rosemary fig bread?
You don’t have to worry about expensive fresh figs here, you’ll be using dried mission figs and fig preserves (or jam). Things you can get year-round, even when it’s not prime fig season! Besides the figs, you’ll also need some dried rosemary! You probably already have some in your spice cabinet and you only need a tablespoon! I use rosemary like it’s going out of style! Every day without fail, I consume a hefty dose of dried rosemary. To tie this gluten-free quick bread together, we can’t forget about the topping. What better way to top a sweet quick bread than with crumb! I used some “brown sugar“, a touch of brown rice flour, and a spot of dairy-free butter.
Why are fruit and savory herbs such a food pairing?
The three common fruit pairing herbs are thyme, sage, and rosemary. I always associate these three with autumn and winter; all the cozy vibes! They’re warming, can be savory or sweet, herby, earthy, and give that “complete” feel to a recipe. I’ve always been a fan of pairing fruit with savory things like chicken, and since figs aren’t like watermelon or pineapple, savory herbs like rosemary complement their elegant sweetness rather perfectly! The earthiness both the figs and rosemary have were just a pairing waiting to happen! Other herbs that elevate fruit are things such as tarragon, winter or summer savory, any of the “perennial” herbs. Same goes with pairing olive oil or balsamic with citrus, berries, figs..beautiful and full flavors there!
Is this a breakfast or dessert quick bread?
You guys know I LOVE my gluten-free quick breads! Why? Well, they’re so easy to make, just mix, pour, and bake. But also because they can be a breakfast, brunch, snack, or dessert! Quick breads are like the cuisine to your morning muffin or after dinner slice of cake. They are so perfect to pair with coffee or your afternoon tea! Quick breads are a baked good I think you should just always have in the house. Bake some, slice, and freeze to pull out whenever the craving hits or bake a weekly loaf to have on hand, not only for yourself, but if guests pop in. Speaking of such, quick breads are GREAT gifts to give! They’re just so easy and very forgiving to make on the fly!
Any topping suggestions for this quick bread?
I guess this answer comes down to when you do decide to have your slice of sweet gluten-free rosemary fig quick bread! For breakfast or brunch, I’d go with more of the fig preserves you decide to use and a smattering of vegan butter! Need a little afternoon fuel? Go with a nut or seed butter! Having the bread for dessert? Maybe some chocolate type of spread! It’s up to you! That brown sugar crumble kind of speaks for itself so eating it plain is 100% approved! Some goes with eating it with your hands or with a fork, like cake. I don’t judge either way!
Sweet Gluten-Free Rosemary & Fig Quick Bread
- 1 Cup Gluten-Free Baking Flour
- 1 Cup Brown Rice Flour
- 2 Tsp Baking Powder
- 1 Prepared Bob's Red Mill Egg Replacement
- ½ Cup Dried Black Mission Figs (chopped)
- ⅓ Cup Fig Preserves
- 2 TB Swerve Brown Sugar (or preferred brown sugar)
- 1 TB Dried Rosemary (crushed)
- 1 Tsp Pure Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract
- ½ Tsp Cinnamon
- ¾ Cup Unsweetened Non-Dairy Milk
- Crumble Topping:
- ¼ Cup Swerve Brown Sugar(or preferred brown sugar)
- 3 TB Brown Rice Flour
- 1 TB Cold Vegan/Allergy-Free Butter (I use MELT)
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the flours and baking powder, mix together.
- Now add all the other bread ingredients and mix the batter smooth (it should be thick).
- In a greased 8x4 inch loaf pan, pour and smooth out the bread batter.
- In a small bowl, mix together the crumble ingredients (I used my hands to make it crumb like).
- Now sprinkle the brown sugar crumb over the top of the bread batter in the loaf pan.
- Bake the bread in the preheated oven for 35 minutes.
- Remove and allow to cool on a wire rack before slicing.
So soft, moist, sweet, with that unexpected aroma and taste of savory rosemary! I love the slight chew of the dried figs, the crunchy brown sugar crumble and that soft inner crumb! So good! Eat it warm or cold; I vote warm with that smear of butter and fig preserves! You are going to be crushing on this rosemary & fig quick bread ALL season long, trust me!
So tell me:
+ What’s your favorite fruit and herb pairing?
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Rosemary and fig, what an interesting combination. Love the creativity, looks delicious!
Not really, but thanks!
This bread looks delicious – I love the flavor combination you picked!
Fig and rosemary are perfect, add brown sugar and wow!
This looks like a fabulous recipe. Thanks for sharing, I’ll pin for later! xx Maria
Great! I hope you enjoy!
YUM! I’ve never thought of rosemary and fig together, but I bet it tastes amazing!
One delicious combo!
I am a sucker for fruit & herbs together. This sounds fantastic.
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Right? So good!
Such a great breakfast dish .. We would enjoy adding this to our weekend brunches
It makes for a great brunch bread!
Looks delicious, can’t wait to try.
Go for it! I know you’ll enjoy.
Omg I am drooling. I love fig anything but mostly the smell of bread in the house would be amazing. I think I’m going to tackle this on Saturday! We’re all about gluten-free at home!
Ah! Well let me know if you do and what you think!
Ooooh, what a great combination, rosemary and fig! This bread looks delicious, thanks.
Thank you for thinking so!
Oh my gosh can I hire you to cook/bake for me! This looks amazing 🙌🏼
Haha, my pleasure!
This looks absolutely delicious! This would be perfect to make and take for Thanksgiving! Thank you for the suggestion. 🙂
Something out of the box!
I just pinned this to my new Gluten-Free Lifestyle board. We are going gluten-free to help my fiance’s auto-immune disorder. I love to bake so this is a perfect (and delicious looking!) recipe to add to my board. Thank you!
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This will be a cozy winter bread to bake!
Oh wow, this looks sooo yummy!! And I love that it’s gluten-free! Going to have to make this for myself ASAP!
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It’s a perfect way to start (or end) a cold winter day!
I just happen to have a bunch d fresh rosemary, so I’ll need to use them on this amazing recipe. This looks absolutely delicious!
Definitely get baking!
I love recipes like these! Look so good!
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Glad you do! Enjoy!
this sounds super delicious! rosemary and fig is a great combo!
It sure is!
this recipe sounds so so amazing! been trying to eat and make more gluten-free and vegan foods – love finding recipes like this x
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Looks good! I haven’t eaten figs in a long time. But this looks like the perfect way to start eating them again. Will have to try this and introduce my daughter to figs.
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Ah, yea! Bring those figgies back!
Looks amazing. I love quick breads for a easy breakfast
Right? Me too! Just heat (or not) and eat!
This looks so deliciious! And I love figs so much!!! Is it bad that I want to make this but eat it all by myself and not share? 🙈
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Figs are the best!!
Omg this sounds amazing! I will need to pin this one for the holidays!
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I hope you enjoy soon!
Wow! This looks delicious!
Thanks, Allison.
I will try this. I am vegan. It looks good.
I’m glad you think so. Enjoy!