Pistachio and raspberry tart

Serves:6

Ingredients

  • Pistachios, toasted, to serve
  • 1 tsp Rose water, or more taste
  • 1 1/4 cups Whipping cream, whipped to firm peaks
  • 2 Gelatine leaves, soaked in cold water
  • 1/2 cup Pistachio nuts
  • To serve rose petals
  • fresh raspberries
  • 2/3 cups icing sugar
  • 1/2 cup Bonne Maman raspberry jam
  • 2 tbsp Canola oil
  • 3 organic eggs
  • 4 Tbsp (To serve) icing sugar
  • 30 g white chocolate
  • 1/2 egg yolk
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2 cups Icing sugar, sifted
  • 250 g cake flour, sifted
  • 225 g Butter

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Cooking Instructions

  1. Grease 6 x 10 cm diameter tartlet tins or a 12 x 35 cm rectangular tart tin.
  2. Rub the butter into the flour, icing sugar and salt until it resembles breadcrumbs.
  3. Add the beaten egg yolk, 1 tablespoon of cold water and mix to a stiff dough.
  4. Rest in the fridge for 30 minutes.
  5. Preheat the oven to 200°C.
  6. Roll out the dough to 6 mm thick and line the tart tins(s).
  7. Prick the base(s), line with greaseproof paper and fill with baking beans.
  8. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden and cooked through. Allow to cool.
  9. Melt the chocolate and set it aside.
  10. Finely grind the nuts in a food processor with the 2 tablespoons of icing sugar.
  11. Combine the eggs and sugar in a bowl over a pot of boiling water and whisk continuously over a low heat until the mixture thickens. Remove from the heat.
  12. Remove the gelatine leaves from the water and melt them in a small bowl in the microwave for 10 seconds.
  13. Add the melted chocolate and gelatine to the egg and sugar mixture, stir in the ground nuts, mix well and refrigerate.
  14. Once cool, fold ¾ cup of whipped cream into the pistachio nut mixture.
  15. Spread the tart shell switch a thin layer of raspberry jam, and top with the pistachio cream. Refrigerate for 6 hours or overnight.
  16. For the rose cream, whisk the remaining icing sugar and rose water into the cream.
  17. Top each tart with a generous spoonful of rose cream and garnish with raspberries, pistachios and rose petals.