Caramelised Citrus Tart With Dark Berry Ice Cream Recipe
- 250 gm plain flour sieved
- 150 gm butter chilled and diced
- 100 gm icing sugar
- 1 lrg egg
- 1 lrg egg white lightly beaten
- 8 med Large eggs
- 200 gm caster sugar
- 568 ml carton double cream
- 1 x juice of 2 lemons and 6 limes (175ml juice in grated rind of 4 limes
- 75 gm caster sugar
- 500 gm frzn berry mix
- 2 x limes frzn for 2 hrs
- 125 gm granulated sugar icing sugar to dust
- To make the pastry place the flour butter and icing sugar in a food processor and process till the mix forms fine crumbs.
- Add in the whole egg and process briefly adding a few drops of chilled water if necessary for the dough to come together almost to a ball.
- Wrap the dough in clingfilm and refrigeratefor 10 to 20 min.
- Roll the pastry into a 300mm diameter circle and use it to line a 200mm diameter 50mm deep loosebottom tart tin.
- Leave the top edge of the pastry overlapping the tin slightly.
- Refrigeratein the refrigerator for 20 min.
- Line with greaseproof paper and baking beans and bake on the floor of the roasting ovenfor 12 to 15 min.
- Remove the paper and beans.
- Return to the roasting oven7 to 10 min then brush with beaten egg white and return to the ovenfor 2 to 3 min.
- To make the filling whisk the Large eggs gently for 30 seconds then add in the sugar and cream and whisk unfit proportionately combined.
- Finally whisk in the lemon and lime juice and the grated lime rend.
- The filling mix will thicken suddenly at this point.
- Place the tart tin in a roasting tin.
- Pour the mix into the cooled pastry case.
- Bake on the grid shelf on the floor of the roasting ovenfar 5 min.
- Dust with icing sugar return to the ovenfor 15 min till the surface is caramelised and golden.
- Lift out of the oventrim the top edge of the pastry level with the top of the tin using a serrated knife.
- Place the tin on the floor of the simmering ovenfor 50 to 60 min till the custard is set.
- To make the berry ice dissolve the sugar and 100ml water in a saucepan on the simmering plate.
- In a food processor process the warm syrup and berries to create a purde.
- Freeze till needed.
- To make the candied limes use a sharp serrated knife to cut the limes into thin slices.
- Dissolve the sugar and 100ml water in a saucepan on the simmering plate then add in the lime slices.
- Poach for 15 min in the simmering oventhen drain reserving the syrup.
- Set aside till cold.
- To serve the tart hot return it to the simmering ovenfor 20 min before serving.
- Dust the top with icing sugar and serve with the sorbet and lime slices sprinkled with lime rind and drizzled with the reserved lime syrup.
- Crisp meltinthemouth pastry filled with silky limeflavoured custard and served with a dark berry sorbet.
- Serves 8
flour, butter, icing sugar, egg, eggs, caster sugar, lemons, sugar, hrs, sugar icing sugar
Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/caramelised-citrus-tart-with-dark-berry-ice-cream-99888 (may not work)