Normandie Tart

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Apple Tart From Normandie

Served as dessert. Vegetarian dish.

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 1 1/2 hours
Serves: 6-8

Ingredients for “Apple Tart From Normandie”

CRUST
250 gm Flour
50 gm Sugar
150 gm Butter, cubed and chilled
1 Egg
1 teaspoon Vanilla

FILLING
3 medium Apples
1 Lemon Juice
2 Eggs
1 Egg Yolk
60 gm Sugar
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
200 ml Cream
Powdered Sugar, to dust

Method of cooking “Apple Tart From Normandie”

Preheat oven 170°C and grease a 22cm round ovenproof pie dish Put flour and sugar in a food processor, process until well combined

Add chilled butter and pulse until mixture is crumbly, add egg and vanilla and process until dough forms a ball (add 1-2 tbsp chilled water if needed).

Chill dough for 20 minutes Peel and core apples, cut each in 8 slices, put slices in a bowl with the lemon juice

In a bowl whip eggs and egg yolk with the sugar, add cinnamon and cream, set aside Roll out pastry to 2-3 mm thickness, line the greased pie dish, prick the bottom with a fork, arrange apple slices decoratively in the pastry shell, cover with egg mixture and bake 45-60 minutes, until pastry is golden and filling is set (cover with foil if browning too quickly)

When warm dust with powdered sugar and cinnamon.