Blood Orange Tart with Cardamom Pastry Cream
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 2 tablespoons (or more) ice water
- 1 large egg yolk
- 2 cups whole milk
- 1 tablespoon cardamom pods, crushed slightly
- 5 large egg yolks
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 6 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 6 blood oranges or small navel oranges
- 1/2 cup apricot preserves, melted, strained
- 2 teaspoons grenadine (optional)
- Combine flour, sugar and salt in processor.
- Add butter and cut in, using on/off turns, until mixture resembles coarse meal.
- Whisk 2 tablespoons ice water and yolk in small bowl.
- Add to dry ingredients and blend just until moist clumps form, adding more water by teaspoonfuls if dough is dry.
- Gather dough into ball; flatten into disk.
- Wrap in plastic and refrigerate at least 1 hour and up to 1 day.
- Preheat oven to 375F.
- Roll out dough on lightly floured surface to 13- to 14-inch round.
- Transfer dough to 11-inch-diameter tart pan with removable bottom.
- Press in overhang, forming double-thick sides.
- Pierce dough all over with fork.
- Freeze crust 30 minutes.
- Bake until golden brown, pressing with back of fork if crust bubbles or slips, about 30 minutes.
- Transfer to rack and cool.
- Bring milk and cardamom to boil in medium saucepan over medium-high heat.
- Remove from heat.
- Cover and let steep 15 minutes.
- Strain milk into bowl.
- Whisk yolks, sugar and flour in medium bowl to blend.
- Gradually whisk in milk.
- Return to saucepan and cook over medium heat until pastry cream thickens and boils, whisking constantly, about 5 minutes.
- Whisk in butter, then vanilla.
- Transfer to bowl.
- Press plastic wrap onto surface.
- Chill until cold, at least 4 hours and up to 1 day.
- Cut peel and white pith from oranges.
- Slice into 1/4-inch-thick rounds.
- Drain rounds on paper towels.
- Whisk preserves and grenadine, if desired, in small bowl to blend.
- Spread pastry cream evenly in tart crust.
- Arrange oranges in overlapping concentric circles on pastry cream.
- Brush apricot glaze over oranges.
- Chill until set, about 15 minutes.
- (Can be made 6 hours ahead; keep refrigerated.)
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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/blood-orange-tart-with-cardamom-pastry-cream-104613 (may not work)