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Corsican tarts

Two typically Corsican ingredients are brought together in this recipe: chestnuts and clementines.

Chestnut flour is used in the sweetcrust pastry and the tarts are filled with a mouth-watering clementine jelly.

68K 13 4.2

Last modified on: February 23^th 2014

Keywords for this recipe:Small tart Clementine Chestnut Corsica

For 12 pieces, you will need:

1 125 g chestnut flour
2 125 g flour
3 100 g butter
4 100 g caster sugar
5 1 egg
6 4 clementines
7 50 g caster sugar
8 1 sheet gelatin
9 75 g white chocolate
Total weight: 1,027 grams

Change these quantities to make: 4 pieces 6 pieces 12 pieces 24 pieces 36 pieces

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
52 min.	2 hours 10 min.	20 min.	3 hours 22 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 2 min.

Prepare 1 sheet gelatin.

Sieve 125 g chestnut flour and 125 g flour together into a food-mixer bowl.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Add 100 g butter, 100 g caster sugar and 1 egg.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Knead until smoothly mixed.

Stage 4 - 2 hours

Gather the pastry into a flat cake, wrap in plastic film and refrigerate for at least 2 hours (it is easy to make this pastry the day before you want to use it).

Stage 5 - 10 min.

After this resting time, roll out the pastry and line the tart tins or moulds.

Stage 6 - 20 min.

Bake the tart cases "blind".

Stage 7 - 10 min.

Squeeze 4 clementines and collect 50 à 60 ml of juice.

Add 50 g caster sugar and melt the sugar over low heat.

Be careful not to let it boil; the clementine juice should be just hot, around 122°F (50°C). Use a thermometer to be sure.

Add the gelatin and mix in thoroughly.

Stage 8 - 10 min.

Put the pan to cool by standing it in cold water. Stir from time to time with a whisk.

Stage 9 - 10 min.

Melt 75 g white chocolate in a bain-marie.

Stage 10 - 5 min.

Use a brush to coat each pastry case with a thin layer of white chocolate.

Stage 11

This will keep the pastry crisp by stopping the clementine jelly soaking into it. The white chocolate will barely affect the flavour, if at all.

Stage 12 - 5 min.

To finish, fill the tarts with the clementine jelly and leave to set in the fridge.

Remarks

You can vary this recipe by using other citrus fruit; lemon, lime, orange, etc.

Keeping

A few hours in the fridge.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,643 Kcal or 11,066 Kj	30 gr	373 gr	115 gr
132 %	12 %	35 %	17 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
257 Kcal or 1,076 Kj	3 gr	36 gr	11 gr
13 %	1 %	3 %	2 %

Per piece
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
220 Kcal or 921 Kj	3 gr	31 gr	10 gr
11 %	1 %	3 %	1 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 12 pieces : 7.46 €
Per piece : 0.62 €

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Source

Home made.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Crunchy little pieces of fish, Brownies, Poppy seed and lemon cake, Cherry clafoutis, Jam doughnuts, ... All
	Chestnut flour: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Chestnut and hazelnut biscuits, Chestnut cake, Rolled chestnut and apple brioche, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Quick Strawberry Millefeuille, Fruit crumble, Filet mignon with asparagus, Tenderloin steaks marinated in red wine with rosemary, Potimarron (Japanese chestnut pumpkin) purée, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Oaty walnut cake , Yeast-based flaky dough (for croissants), Brioche dough, Sesame cookies, Checkerboard biscuits, ... All

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