Orange Tart with Orange Cream and Pistachios
- 1 frozen puff pastry sheet (from a 17 1/4-oz package), thawed but kept chilled
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 11 navel oranges
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup confectioners sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons shelled salted roasted pistachios (not dyed red), chopped
- Preheat oven to 425F.
- Unfold pastry sheet on a lightly floured surface and roll out pastry with a floured rolling pin into a 12-inch square.
- Brush off excess flour from top and bottom of square and from work surface.
- Trim a 3/4-inch-wide strip from all sides of square and reserve.
- Put pastry square on a baking sheet and prick all over with a fork.
- Brush pastry square with some of egg and arrange 1 strip on each edge of pastry square, overlapping strips at corners, to form a raised edge around pastry, and trim overhang.
- Brush strips with some of egg, then sprinkle pastry evenly with granulated sugar.
- Bake in middle of oven until golden brown, 15 to 17 minutes.
- Carefully slide pastry from baking sheet to a rack to cool, then gently flatten inner part of pastry with your palm if very puffed.
- Squeeze 2 tablespoons juice from 1 orange.
- Cut peel, including all white pith, from remaining 10 oranges with a sharp paring knife and cut each orange crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices.
- Arrange slices in 1 layer between paper towels to drain briefly.
- Whisk together cream cheese, confectioners sugar, vanilla, salt, and orange juice and spread evenly over center of pastry, spreading it to raised edges.
- Arrange oranges, overlapping, on pastry and sprinkle with pistachios.
pastry sheet, egg, sugar, oranges, cream cheese, confectioners sugar, vanilla, salt, pistachios
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/orange-tart-with-orange-cream-and-pistachios-107385 (may not work)