Honey and Pine Nut Tart
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
-
PASTRY
- 2 cups plain flour
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 2 tablespoons icing sugar
- 1 egg
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THE FILLING
- 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter, diced
- 1⁄2 cup caster sugar
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 2⁄3 cup sunflower honey or 2/3 cup your favourite honey
- 1 lemon, juice and zest of, grated
- 3 cups pine nuts
- 1 pinch salt
- icing sugar, for dusting
directions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas4; sift the flour into a bowl, add the butter and use your fingertips to work on the mixture until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
- Stir in the icing sugar, add the eggs and 1 tablespoon of water and work on the dough until it becomes firm and leaves the edges of the bowl clean.
- Roll out the pastry onto a floured surface and use it to line a 23-cm/9-inch tart tin.
- Prick the pastry shell with a fork, and chill it for 10 minutes; then line it with aluminium foil or greaseproof paper and fill the pastry case with dried beans or rice, or baking beans; and bake the pastry shell for 10 minutes.
- Cream together the butter and caster sugar until the mixture is light, then beat in the eggs, one at a time.
- Gently heat the honey in a small pan until it is of a runny consistency, then add it to the butter mixture with the lemon zest and lemon juice.
- Stir in the pine nuts and salt, then pour the filling into the pastry case.
- Bake the tart for about 45 minutes, until the filling is lightly browned and set.
- Leave the tart to cool slightly in the tin, then dust generously with icing sugar.
- Serve the tart warm or at room temperature, with crème fraîche, Greek yoghurt or vanilla ice cream.
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