Prosciutto with Fig Tarts
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 extra-large eggs
- 12 tablespoons sweet unsalted butter, melted and liquid
- 12 ripe figs
- 8 ounces prosciutto di Parma, sliced paper thin
- Cracked black pepper
- 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
- 2 ounces extra-virgin olive oil
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Butter a baking dish and set aside.
- On a pasta board, or large, clean, wooden cutting board, make a mound out of flour and make well in center, just like making fresh pasta.
- This can also be done in a large mixing bowl.
- Place the sugar, eggs, and melted butter into the well.
- Using a fork, mix the ingredients, bringing the walls of the flour into the well bit by bit, and forming a mass of dough.
- Once the dough has come together, knead it for 1 minute until a medium ball has formed.
- Divide the dough into 4 equal pieces and roll each into a ball.
- Wrap each dough ball in plastic.
- Refrigerate the balls for 15 minutes so that the dough has a chance to rest.
- Meanwhile, cut the figs into halves.
- Remove the pastry from the refrigerator and roll each piece into a 4 to 5-inch circle, about 1/4-inch thick.
- Carefully place the rounds in the prepared baking sheet.
- Arrange the fruit cut side up in the center of each pastry round.
- If you desire, you can fold the tart edges in over the fruit to form a kind of shell, or else let the fruit come near the flat edges of the tarts, forming a flat, disk-like tart.
- Bake the tarts until the pastry is golden brown, about 20 to 22 minutes.
- Remove the tarts from oven, lay 2 thin slices of prosciutto over each, and sprinkle them with cracked black pepper, fennel seeds and the extra-virgin olive oil.
- Serve immediately.
allpurpose, sugar, eggs, sweet unsalted butter, figs, parma, pepper, fennel seeds, extravirgin olive oil
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/mario-batali/prosciutto-with-fig-tarts-recipe.html (may not work)