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Crusty cockle tart

A small puff pastry tart case filled with cockles in a cream and egg-yolk sauce ("a la poulette" in French).

74,8394.3/5 for 20 ratings

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Last modified on: March 17^th 2013

For 4 people, you will need:

1 1 kg cockles
2 200 g Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée)
3 200 ml liquid cream
4 2 egg yolks
5 chives (optional)
Total weight: 1,440 grams

Change those ingredients for: 2 people 4 people 8 people 12 people

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
2 hours 22 min.	30 min.	2 hours 52 min.

Keeping: A few minutes once filled.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 2 hours

Prepare the cockles and the cooking liquid left. This can be done well in advance, or the day before.

Stage 2 - 10 min.

Preheat the oven to 220°C (430°F).

Roll out the pastry and line the tart moulds or tins. Fill with baking beans (or lentils) to prevent the pastry puffing up too much.

Stage 3 - 15 min.

Bake the tart cases for around 15 minutes, watching for colouring.

Remove the baking beans and keep the cases hot in the residual oven heat (after turning off).

Stage 4 - 10 min.

Pour 200 ml liquid cream into a pan and bring to the boil over medium heat. Add pepper but no salt.

Add around 5 tablespoonsful of the cockle cooking liquid and taste to check the seasoning. If necessary, add a little more of the cockle liquid.

Stage 5 - 2 min.

Turn down the heat and add 2 egg yolks.

Stage 6 - 5 min.

Beat to mix thoroughly and continue beating gently until the "à la poulette" (chick) sauce thickens.

Remove from the heat as soon as it is thick enough.

Stage 7 - 5 min.

Tip in the cockles and stir round briefly to reheat them.

Heat the plates.

Stage 8 - 5 min.

Place a tart case on each plate and fill with a spoonful or two of cockles in sauce.

You can also pour the sauce over whatever you are serving on the side, such as the rice shown here.

Serve immediately.

Remarks

Just before serving, you can add a few chopped chives to the sauce if you wish.

Tarts like this should be served immediately as the sauce will soon start to soften the pastry and make them less appealing.

And to drink?

A dry white wine, such as a "Gros-plant" from the Nantes region.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,638 Kcal or 6,858 Kj	31 gr	74 gr	135 gr
82 %	12 %	7 %	20 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
114 Kcal or 477 Kj	2 gr	5 gr	9 gr
6 %	1 %	<1 %	1 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
410 Kcal or 1,717 Kj	8 gr	19 gr	34 gr
20 %	3 %	2 %	5 %

% 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 4 people : 7.52 €
Per person : 1.88 €

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Source

Home made.

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Cockles: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: How to prepare cockles, Fisherman's Ragout, Tagliatelle with cockles, Fillets of sole Dieppoise, ... All
	Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Apple Strudel, Nanou's tuna tart, Comtoise tart for Seàn, Apple semelles (flat apple tarts), Vol-au-vent cases, ... All
	Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Creamy risotto with diced vegetables and flax seeds, Creamy Winter Vegetable Soup, Smoky potato and potimarron gratin, Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse, Apple Batter Puddings, ... All
	Egg yolk: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Butter cream, Peach and verbena feuilleté, Dauphinoise potatoes with Serano ham, Fruit crémeux, Blanquette of veal, ... All

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