Food Academy- Lemon Tart.

We make our own sweet pastry and then fill it with sweet lemon curd.
Mmmmm.
Easy peasy, lemon squeezy!
I used a small blow torch to caramelize the icing sugar on top of a cooling lemon tart. You could alternatively carefully put it under a grill in the oven.

Short Sweet Pastry

Makes 400g

Ingredients

·      Flour, 1 ½ cups

·      Salt, ¼ tsp

·      Butter, soft, 125g

·      Icing sugar, 1/3 cup

·      Egg, 1

Method

1.    Sieve flour and salt together.

2.    Rub in the butter until the texture is like crumbs.

3.    Make a well in the centre.

4.    Beat the egg with the sugar to dissolve it.

5.    Pour the egg and sugar into the well.

6.    Gently and quickly mix to make firm dough.

7.    Rest pastry before use.

Lemon Tart

Ingredients

·      Sweet pastry, 400g

·      Eggs, 5

·      Sugar, ¾ cup

·      Lemon juice, 50ml

·      Lemon zest, 2 tsp

·      Cream, 150ml

·      Icing sugar, to dredge

Method

1.    Line a flan ring with pastry, dock and bake blind.

2.    Beat eggs and sugar together.

3.    Add juice and zest and stir well.

4.    Stir in the cream.

5.    Pour into the flan case.

6.    Bake at 150⁰C for 30-40 minutes, until set.

7.    Allow to cool.

Sprinkle with icing sugar and caramelize with heat gun