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Pear, grapefruit and pistachio tart

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

62,6524.3/5 for 17 ratings

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Last modified on: February 17^th 2013

For 1 tart, you will need:

0 5.5 oz butter
1 12.0 oz ground almonds
2 5.3 oz caster sugar
3 3 eggs
4 1.1 oz Pistachio powder or paste
5 8.8 oz Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée)
6 2 Pears
7 2 grapefruits
8 1.1 oz apricot glaze (optional)

Change these quantities to make: 1 tart 2 tarts 3 tarts

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How long does it take?

Time required for this recipe:

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

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Keeping:

A few days in the fridge covered with plastic fim.

Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

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

Put into a food-processor bowl: 5.5 oz butter, 12.0 oz ground almonds, 5.3 oz caster sugar, 3 eggs and 1.1 oz 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

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
4,756 Kcal or 19,912 Kj	72 gr	429 gr	306 gr
238 %	28 %	40 %	46 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
244 Kcal or 1,022 Kj	4 gr	22 gr	16 gr
12 %	1 %	2 %	2 %

Per tart
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
4,756 Kcal or 19,912 Kj	72 gr	429 gr	306 gr
238 %	28 %	40 %	46 %

% 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 : 7.77 €

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Note : These prices are only approximate.

Source

Based on a recipe by Eric Kayser.

More recipes?

This recipe uses (among others)

	Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Tarte Bourdaloue, Simple maple-syrup tart, Peach and green tea tart, Lemon and grated apple tart, Little lime tarts, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Scrambled eggs with butter-fried bread and fresh spinach, Clafoutis "Marie-Antoinette", Genoese croque-monsieur, Breton sablé biscuit dough, Milk rolls, ... All
	Ground almonds: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Marzipan (almond paste), Armagnac marzipan, Succès praliné (praline meringue), Moist chocolate cake, Almond cream or frangipane, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Gâteau Basque , Half-cooked chocolate cake with raspberry coulis, Plum and almond panna cotta, Caramelized apple and walnut cake, Gâteau Breton (Brittany butter cake), ... All

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