Stage 7: Strawberry-and-pistachio tart recipe (tarte aux fraises)

Created by Gabriel Gaté

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Cuisine: French
Serves 8

Stage 7: Le Mans - Châteauroux

The Loire Valley, known as the garden of France, is dotted with magnificent royal castles. Gabriel heads for the market of Amboise right next to the château, where Leonardo da Vinci spent some time in his later years. Gabriel meets Rodolphe Le Meunier, a world champion cheese master, who tells us how he matures the local goat's cheese. In the kitchen, Gabriel makes a luscious strawberry-and-pistachio tart.

You need a 25cm lift-out flan tin.

Ingredients

A little plain flour
About 400g sweet pastry
300ml crème fraîche
10ml Cointreau
2 tbsp milk
2 tbsp icing sugar
2 punnets of strawberries, washed, halved
4 tbsp smooth apricot jam
3 tbsp peeled pistachio nuts, cut into small pieces

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Preparation

Preheat oven to 180°C.

Dust the bench with plain flour and roll the pastry out thinly (about 4mm). Lift the pastry into the flan tin and line it with foil. Top the foil with pastry weights to stop the pastry from shrinking during cooking. Bake the pastry in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes.

Beat the crème fraîche with the Cointreau and milk until almost firm. Add
2 tablespoons of icing sugar and mix well. (This is called a Chantilly cream.)

Spread the Chantilly cream over the cooled pastry shell. Top gently with strawberry halves and brush the berries lightly with apricot jam. Sprinkle pistachio nuts around the edge of the tart, and refrigerate until ready to slice and serve.

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Comments (1)

11 Jul 2011 03:32 AEST

Ian

St Lucia

yum

Easy to make, quick to disappear!

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