French Strawberry Tart Recipe
Total time
From: Jennie
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: French
Serves: 8
- Crust:
- 125 grams or ½ cup of unsalted butter (chopped into pieces),
- heaping ½ cup of confectioner's sugar
- 2 ½ cups of flour - regular or a gluten-free mix
- ⅓ cup almond powder
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon of large grain sea salt.
- Up to 3 T cold water, added one at a time.
- Pastry cream:
- 2⅛ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 egg yolks
- ½ cup sugar
- 3T plus 1t corn starch
- ⅛ t salt
- 16 oz strawberries
- 3-4 heaping tablespoons apple Jelly
- Pre-heat oven to 180°C or 350°F.
- Put the dough ingredients in the Cuisinart and add the cold water if necessary until dough forms.
- Wrap dough in saran wrap and let it chill so you can roll it out easily.
- Use wax paper under and above the dough for easy handling (plus flour) when you roll it out.
- Bake pie crust for 15 to 20 minutes - check on it and turn if it's baking unevenly.
- Heat the milk and vanilla.
- Whisk the yolks, sugar, corn starch & salt.
- When the milk is hot, pour it into the yolk mixture and mix it.
- Return mixture to pan and heat over low heat, stirring continuously until it thickens.
- Put the pastry cream in a bowl and cover with saran wrap.
- Let it cool, then put it in the refrigerator until chilled.
- Spread pastry cream on the cooled tarte, followed by the fresh strawberries.
- Warm up the apple jelly until it's liquidy, then spread that over the strawberries.
Recipe by A Lady In France at https://aladyinfrance.com/french-strawberry-tarte/
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