Came across this beautiful looking tart on Gourmet Recipes a foodie community on google+. Once I saw the tart I had to make it. I took the original recipe and made it with the ingredients I had on hand. Now the original recipe is in Italian! yeah, you read it correct people. I don't speak a word of Italian.
But, I know some Spanish and thought heck it might be similar! Nooooooo! I was wrong, yes dead wrong! okay, okay, lesson learnt. I might have been trying to over stretch my lingua capabilities.
Annnyhoooo...I went to good ole - 'Google' - yup! the one stop shop for what ails yah.
I plugged the recipe into Google translate and bingo! one chestnut tart recipe, granted I still had to make sense of the ridiculous if not comical translation. The original recipe can be found Here. So, this is my interpretation of '3 Ragazzi & 1 Cucina' Enjoy!
Recipe Ingredients
9" tart tin
Pastry:
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- 90 g plain gluten free flour - plus extra for dusting and thickening dough
- 80 g almond flour
- 100 g cooked whole chestnut plus extra for topping
- 100 g soft brown sugar
- 125 g dairy free margarine
- 1 medium egg
- 1 egg white
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
- pinch salt
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Filling:
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- 250 g lactose free cream cheese
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 80 g golden fine caster sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla paste
- few strands saffron
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Preparation
Preheat oven to 180 degrees
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Place the chestnuts in a food processor and blitz till they form a fine powdery consistency. Add the brown sugar, salt, flours, baking powder, margarine and xanthan gum. Process till combined well and look similar to the fourth image above.
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Transfer into a large mixing bowl, and add the egg and egg white (saving the yolk for the filling). Combine well - the mixture will be rather sticky but persevere with it, dusting with flour to thicken up. Knead into a ball, transfer ball into cling film and refrigerate for 1 hour or overnight (I did this overnight).
Baking stage:
Remove the ball from the refrigerator and divide in half (if using a small tart case; save the other half for biscuits!). Roll out the chestnut pastry onto a lightly floured surface using a rolling pin. Carefully place the flattened pastry into the tart case, pressing into the case and trim down the edges. Prick the base of the tart with a clean fork. Blind bake the pastry case for 10 minutes in the preheated oven (I did mine 5 minutes too long).
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#you might want to oil your tart case first, I don't have to as the pastry case is non stick#
Whilst the case is baking prepare the filling. In a clean bowl whisk the egg yolk, vanilla paste, cream cheese and saffron till the mixture is smooth. Combine the cornstarch and sugar in a bowl and sieve slowly whilst mixing into the egg and cheese mixture. Make sure there are no lumps.
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Remove the tart case from the oven after 10 minutes and gently pour the filling into the case making sure it is evenly distributed.
Take 3 whole cooked chestnuts and slice in half with a sharp knife.
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Arrange these on the tart, this step is optional (more of an after thought for me) - take some of the left over pastry and roll into strips and lay in a criss cross fashion on top of the tart.
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Return to the oven and bake for a further 15 to 20 minutes. Check
with a toothpick or other clean skewer inserted into the centre of the tart after 15 minutes. If it comes out clean it's done, if not return to the oven for a further 5 minutes.
Done!!
Bon Appétit!!
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