Fresh Fig and Raspberry Tart with Honey
- 1 cup (140 g) all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup (40 g) sliced blanched almonds
- 1/2 cup (100 g) sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons (3 ounces/85 g) unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch (1.5-cm) pieces and chilled
- 2 large egg yolks
- 3/4 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/4 cup (65 g) raspberry jam (with seeds or seedless)
- 12 ripe fresh figs
- 1 1/4 cups (6 ounces/170 g) raspberries
- 3 tablespoons (45 ml) honey, warmed
- To make the dough, in a food processor fitted with the metal blade, grind the flour, almonds, sugar, and salt until the almonds are very fine and powdery.
- Add the butter and pulse until the butter is in very small pieces about the size of grains of rice.
- Add the egg yolks and the almond extract, then let the machine run until the dough starts to come together.
- Transfer the dough to a work surface, knead it briefly with your hands until smooth, press the dough into a disk.
- Very lightly butter a 9-inch (23-cm) tart pan with a removable bottom, or use one with a nonstick coating.
- Transfer the dough disk to the pan.
- Using your hands, press the dough as evenly as possible into the bottom and up the sides of the pan.
- Freeze the dough-lined tart pan for at least 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 375F (190C).
- Set the tart pan on a baking sheet and prick the frozen tart dough about 10 times with a fork.
- Line the dough with a sheet of aluminum foil and fill with pie weights or dried beans.
- Bake the tart shell on the baking sheet until the dough is set, about 20 minutes.
- Remove the foil and pie weights and continue to bake until the tart shell is deep golden brown, about 10 minutes more.
- Let cool completely.
- To fill the tart, spread the raspberry jam in an even layer in the bottom of the cooled tart shell.
- Trim the hard stem ends from the figs and quarter them lengthwise.
- Arrange the figs in the tart shell in 2 concentric circles, cut sides up, fitting them snugly against the sides of the tart shell and each other.
- Arrange the raspberries snugly in the center.
- Drizzle the warm honey over the tart.
- Remove the tart pan sides by setting the tart on an overturned bowl or other tall, wide surface (a large can of tomatoes works well).
- Gently press down on the outer ring and let the ring fall to the countertop.
- Set the tart on a flat surface.
- Release the tart from the pan bottom by sliding the blade of a knife between the crust and the pan bottom, then slip the tart onto a serving plate.
- (If it doesnt release cleanly, simply serve the tart on the pan bottom.)
- Serve the tart in wedges, just as it is, or with Frozen Nougat (page 177) or Champagne Sabayon (page 238).
- This tart is best the day it is assembled.
- Buy only fresh figs that are positively ripe, as they dont ripen once theyre picked.
- The best-tasting, ripest figs will be splitting at the seams with a bit of sap-like nectar exuding from the blossom end.
flour, almonds, sugar, salt, unsalted butter, egg yolks, almond extract, raspberry, fresh figs, raspberries, honey
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/fresh-fig-and-raspberry-tart-with-honey-379557 (may not work)