Yuzu Tart
Ingredients:
- 225g plain flour
- 150g cold butter
- 25g icing sugar
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 2 tbsp water
- 9 large eggs
- 300ml double cream
- 350g caster sugar
- 200ml yuzu juice
- 20g yuzu zest
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 200C/gas mark 6/ fan 180C
- Grease a 30cm wide, 1 inch deep loose-bottomed tart tin.
- Weigh out the plain flour, butter and sugar and add into a food processor, blitz until it looks like breadcrumbs and then add the egg and water. Blitz gently until it forms a ball.
- Put flour on a worktop and roll the pastry thinly, 5mm thick
- Line the tart tin with the pastry, pop onto a baking sheet and put in the fridge to rest for 30 minutes.
- Line the tin with non-stick paper and fill with baking beans. Blind bake for 15 minutes until golden brown.
- Remove from the oven and carefully remove parchment paper and baking beans.
- Use a small sharp knife to carefully trim the excess pastry from the sides
- Return the empty pastry shell to the oven for another 10 minutes Set aside to cool.
- Reduce the temperature of the oven to 160C/gas mark 3 / fan 140C
- Crack the eggs into a large mixing bowl, weigh out sugar and add, whisk with a blender
- Whisk the double cream until it has soft peaks
- Fold the whipped cream in with the eggs / sugar mix,
- Blitz the yuzu zest into smaller pieces with a small blender and add the yuzu juice
- Add the yuzu mixture in with the rest of the ingredients
- Carefully pour the mixture into the cold baked pastry case.
- Put the tart and baking tray into to the oven and bake for 35-40 minutes or until just set.
- Leave to cool and then remove it from the tin.
- Dust with icing sugar and serve.