Tarte Tatin
Tarte Tatin is a recipe with fresh ingredients from the Tarte category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 200 g Flour
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 100 g cold butter
- 1 egg
- 5 pears
- 1 lemon (juice)
- 75 g soft butter
- 200 g sugar
- 4 piment seeds
Instructions
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1.
For the dough sift the flour onto a work surface, mix with salt and sugar and press a well in the center. Cut the cold butter into small pieces, distribute around the well, add the egg to the center and use a knife to cut through all ingredients until small crumbs form; quickly knead by hand into a dough, shape into a ball, wrap in cling film and chill for about 30 minutes.
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2.
Wash, peel, quarter the pears and remove the core. Drizzle with lemon juice. Line a tart pan thickly with 50 g butter. Sprinkle a thick layer of sugar (about 100 g) over the butter and arrange the pear pieces tightly together on top.
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3.
Heat the baking dish over medium heat for about 15 minutes, then remove from the stove when the sugar begins to caramelize; let it cool briefly, then sprinkle the remaining sugar and scatter the rest of the butter in flakes over the pears.
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4.
Preheat the oven to 200 °C (400 °F) with both fan and top heating.
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5.
Roll out the dough, lay it over the pears and press the edges down into the pan.
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6.
Bake the tart in the preheated oven for about 30 minutes, remove, let cool slightly, carefully flip onto a plate and serve warm sprinkled with crushed piment seeds.
