FRESH FRUIT TART

FRESH FRUIT TART

Following my guest suggestion I write about a tart with fresh fruit. The pastry I use is always the same but I change the fruit depending on the season. In summer everybody appreciate peaches, in springs strawberries and in September figs.

As base you can use short crust pastry and custard. You can buy both of them but I suggest to try to homemade, after the first time it won’t be so difficult and the result is much better!

Short crust pastry
Ingredients:

300 gr. flour

120 gr. sugar

120 gr. melted butter

1 egg ed 1 yolk

Lemon zeist

Mix together flour, sugar and lemon zeist. Make a hole in the middle and fill in with eggs and butter, knead quicky using fingers, make a ball and let sit for half an hour. Stretch the pastry, punch with a fork and bake 15 minutes 180°.

Custard:
Ingredients:

1/2 liter of milk

1/2 lemon zeist

100 gr. sugar

50 gr. flour

2 eggs

Vanilla and salt

Cook milk with hald sugar, lemon zeist, vanilla and salt. Mix in a bowl eggs, flour and the left sugar. Pour the mixture in the boiling milk (out of the fire) stir until smooth. Cook again for just a minute. Let cool.

to prepare the part: put the sort crust pastry on a tray, spread on the custard and then the fresh fruit. Then you can choose to cover with jelly or not. I prefer pass the fruit in water with lemon before using and not adding jelly.