FRUIT & NUTS TART

FRUIT & NUTS TART - TM

This is a very simple yet delicious and healthy dessert. This time I made it with gluten free pastry, see link below, and everybody really enjoyed it. It is a recipe using the Thermomix, but it can be very easily adapted to do it without it.

Difficulty: medium
Preparation time: 20min
Total time: 1h 10min
Serving size: 16 servings

Ingredients

20 - 25 prunes, pitted
100 g raisins without seeds
50 g brandy

Shortcrust pastry (with gluten) (Click here for a gluten free recipe)

350 g of pastry flour
130 g of cold butter in small pieces (and a little more for the tin)
70 g of water
1 pinch of salt
1 teaspoon of sugar
1 egg white to brush the dough

Creme pâtissière

100g sugar
500 g of skimmed milk
50 g cornflour
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
or 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar

Assembly

100 g pine nuts, toasted
100 g of chopped peeled walnuts

Jam glaze

3 tablespoons apricot jam
2 tablespoons sugar

Preparation

Cut the prunes in half, put them together with the raisins in a bowl, drizzle with the brandy and marinate.

Shortcrust pastry

Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.

Put the flour, butter, water, salt and sugar in the bowl. Program 15 sec / speed 6 . Form the dough into a ball and roll out. Cover a Ø 26-28 cm springform cake tin greased with butter with the dough. Let stand for 15 minutes in the refrigerator.

Brush with the egg white, prick with a fork and bake for 15-20 minutes (180ºC).

Wash and dry the bowl.

Creme pâtissière

Put the sugar, milk, cornflour, eggs and vanilla essence in the bowl. Program 7 min / 100 ° C / speed 4 . Pour into a piping bag and cool for 20-30 minutes. Wash and dry the bowl.

Assembly

Drain the prunes and raisins, reserving the brandy for the glaze.

Fill the shortbread tart with the creme pâtissière.

Place the fruit and nuts over the custard, in a round shape and starting from the outside: first plums, another circle of pine nuts, another smaller one of raisins and continue in this order until there is a circle in the center of 4-5 cm. Pour the chopped walnuts in this center and reserve.

Jam glaze

Put the reserved brandy, jam and sugar in the glass. Program 3 min / 100 ° C / speed 4 . Pour into a bowl and brush the surface of the cake with this glaze. Let cool and serve.

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