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Pear, grapefruit and pistachio tart

A sweetcrust pastry case filled with pistachio cream, topped with pear and grapefruit slices.

48,1784.3/5 for 17 ratings

Last modified on: February 17^th 2013

For 1 tart, you will need:

1 150 g butter
2 150 g ground almonds
3 150 g caster sugar
4 3 eggs
5 30 g Pistachio powder or paste
6 250 g Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée)
7 2 Pears
8 2 grapefruits
9 30 g apricot glaze (optional)
Total weight: 1,950 grams

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Time required

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
1 hour 2 min.	35 min.	1 hour 37 min.

Keeping:

A few days in the fridge covered with plastic fim

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Pear, grapefruit and pistachio tart : Photo of step #1

Put into a food-processor bowl: 150 g butter, 150 g ground almonds, 150 g caster sugar, 3 eggs and 30 g Pistachio powder or paste.

Stage 2 - 7 min.

Pear, grapefruit and pistachio tart : Photo of step #2

Beat until the mixture is light and creamy.

Set aside in the fridge.

Stage 3 - 10 min.

Pear, grapefruit and pistachio tart : Photo of step #3

Roll out the sweetcrust pastry, line your chosen tin or mould and put to wait in the fridge.

Stage 4 - 15 min.

Pear, grapefruit and pistachio tart : Photo of step #4

Peel both outer and inner skin off 2 grapefruits.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Pear, grapefruit and pistachio tart : Photo of step #5

Preheat the oven to 180°C (360°F).

Spread the pistachio cream in the pastry case to about about 1 cm (0.4 inch) deep.

Stage 6 - 10 min.

Pear, grapefruit and pistachio tart : Photo of step #6

Peel 2 Pears, cut into quarters lengthways. Remover the core, then cut each quarter again into 2 lengthways.

As pears tend to turn brown rapidly, the trick is to cut them on the same chopping board as the grapefuit and coat the pieces with the juice left, using a brush.

Stage 7 - 5 min.

Pear, grapefruit and pistachio tart : Photo of step #7

Stick the grapefruit and pear pieces into the pistachio cream...

Stage 8 - 35 min.

Pear, grapefruit and pistachio tart : Photo of step #8

...and bake for around 35 minutes.

Stage 9 - 5 min.

Pear, grapefruit and pistachio tart : Photo of step #9

If possible, finish with an apricot jam glaze.

Remarks

You can use other fruit, of course, but do try to keep a similar balance between tangy and sweeter, softer fruits.

Nutritional information

% 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 1 tart : 18.44 €

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Source

Based on a recipe by Eric Kayser.

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	Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Lemon Tart / Meringue Pie, Plum tart, Tarte Jurassienne, How to roll out pastry for a tart, Pistachio custard tart, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Vanilla sugar, How to cook caramelized puff pastry well, Lemon Confectioner's Custard, Little vanilla, clementine and chestnut verrines, Doughnuts, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Gâteau Breton (Brittany butter cake), Moist chocolate cake, Roast pork with sage, cooked in a bag., Seafood feuillantines, Noisette butter, ... All
	Ground almonds: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Nanou's chocolate cake, Chestnut moelleux, Almond mug cake for Mary, Apple Strudel, Apricot blancmange, ... All

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