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Main Ingredient: Custard
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Cook Time: 25 mins
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Recipe by: Tala Cooking
This beautiful fruit tart recipe couldn’t be easier to make. Beautifully crisp and golden pastry combined with light, creamy custard and glossy fruits on top. Do vary the fruit topping if you want to – most summer fruits work beautifully.
Method
1. Place the flour, butter and sugar in a food processor and pulse until the mixture resembles sand.
2. Pour the egg yolk in and pulse again followed by 1 or 2 tablespoons of water. The mixture should come together when ready – if this only takes one tablespoon of water don’t add any more.
3. Turn out, push into a ball, and allow to rest for a few minutes
4. Sprinkle some flour onto the work surface and roll the pastry into a large circle about 3-5mm thick. The circle should be bigger than the diameter of the base of the tin and the height of the walls all the way around
5. Use the rolling pin to lift the pastry and carefully lay it down over the tin. Push the pastry into position so that it snuggly lines the tin and trim any excess from the top of the tin walls.
6. Prick the base all over with a kitchen fork and refrigerate for an hour.
7. Preheat the oven to 170° and line the chilled tart tin with kitchen foil and fill with ceramic baking beans.
8. Bake for 15 minutes, then carefully remove the baking beans and foil and bake again for approximately 10 minutes, until the pastry looks biscuit brown and crisp.
9. Allow the pastry case to cool in the tin while you make the custard filling. Measure the cream and milk into the same measuring jug and stir.
10. In a mixing bowl, mix the custard powder with three tablespoons of the milk and cream mixture and the vanilla paste.
11. Bring the rest of the milk and cream mixture to the boil in a saucepan, then pour directly onto the custard mixture, whisking all the while until thickened and smooth (this just takes a couple of minutes).
12. Pour into the tart case (still in its tin) and allow to cool completely, transferring to the fridge once at room temperature.
13. Prepare the fruit in any style that you like and arrange the fruit on top of the chilled custard and brush with heated raspberry or apricot to make a lovely shiny glaze.
14. Store in the fridge until needed, then cut into slices and serve.
