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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.

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3 hours 25 min. difficulté

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7.50 €

36 pieces

9 Ingredients

Last modified on: February 23^th 2014

For 36 pieces, you will need:

1 585 ml chestnut flour
2 585 ml flour
3 309.6 ml butter
4 300 ml caster sugar
5 3 Eggs
6 12 clementines
7 150 ml caster sugar
8 3 sheets gelatin
9 225 ml white chocolate

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Times for this recipe

Preparation: 55 min.

Resting: 2 hours 10 min.

Cooking: 20 min.

All in all: 3 hours 25 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 2 min.

Prepare 3 sheets gelatin.

Sieve 585 ml chestnut flour and 585 ml flour together into a food-mixer bowl.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Add 309.6 ml butter, 300 ml caster sugar and 3 Eggs.

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 12 clementines and collect 50 à 60 ml of juice.

Add 150 ml 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 225 ml 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.

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	90 RDI=40 %	1,120 RDI=110 %	340 RDI=50 %	7,930 RDI=400 %	33,190 RDI: 400 %
Per 100 g	2 RDI=1 %	40 RDI=3 %	10 RDI=2 %	260 RDI=10 %	1,080 RDI: 10 %
Per piece	2 RDI=1 %	30 RDI=3 %	9 RDI=1 %	220 RDI=10 %	920 RDI: 10 %

The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman Change to a man

Possible allergens in this recipe: Gluten, Milk, Egg

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